Taxon: Cryptostegia grandiflora R. Br.

• authorship verified from original literature
• Roxburgh placed this in Nerium

Common names:

• Indian rubbervine   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• Palay rubbervine   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• rubberplant   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• rubbervine   (Source: CRC MedHerbs ) – English
  
• alamanda-roxa   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• criptostégia   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Dict Gard; F Ceylon; Invasive Pl Spec)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide CRC MedHerbs ed2)
  
• Vertebrate poisons: mammals   (fide Lampe & McCann; Kingsbury)
  
• Weed: potential seed contaminant   (fide Mycopathologia; Pl. Protect. Quart. 10:122-130. 1995; Invasive Pl Spec)
  

More:

View toxicology references for Cryptostegia grandiflora from FDA Poisonous Plant Database

View ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  Western Indian Ocean: Madagascar [s.]

• AFRICA
  Western Indian Ocean: Reunion
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: India
• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Florida [s.]
  Southern Mexico: Mexico - Yucatan
• PACIFIC
  Southwestern Pacific: New Caledonia
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Caribbean: Bahamas; Cayman Islands; Cuba; Dominican Republic; Haiti; Jamaica; Puerto Rico; Virgin Islands (British) - Tortola; Virgin Islands (U.S.) - St. John
  Mesoamerica: Honduras
  Brazil: Brazil - Bahia, Mato Grosso do Sul, Para, Piaui, Rio Grande do Norte
  Western South America: Peru - Cajamarca

• widely cultivated in tropics

References:

• Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. et al. 1996. Flora of St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 78:1-581.
• Adams, C. 1972. Flowering plants of Jamaica.
• Bosser, J. M. et al., eds. 1976–. Flores des Mascareignes.
• Brako, L. & J. L. Zarucchi. 1993. Catalogue of the flowering plants and gymnosperms of Peru. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 45.
• Correll, D. S. & H. B. Correll. 1982. Flora of the Bahama archipelago.
• Dassanayake, M. D. & F. R. Fosberg, eds. 1980–. A revised handbook to the flora of Ceylon. [lists as C. grandiflora R. Br.].
• Davidse, G. et al., eds. 1994. Flora mesoamericana.
• Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs.
• Duke, J. A. 1985. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs.
• Evans, H. C. & A. J. Tomley. 1994. Studies on the rust, Maravalia cryptostegiae, a potential biological control agent of rubber-vine weed, Cryptostegia grandiflora (Asclepiadaceae: Periplocoideae), in Australia, III: Host range. Mycopathologia 126:93–108. [studies on a rust for biological control of this species].
• Forzza, R. C. et al., coord. Lista de espécies da flora do Brasil (on-line resource).
• George, A. S., ed. 1980–. Flora of Australia.
• Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
• Hnatiuk, R. J. 1990. Census of Australian vascular plants. Australian Flora and Fauna Series No. 11.
• Holm, L. et al. 1979. A geographical atlas of world weeds.
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. [lists as C. grandiflora R. Br.].
• Institute of Pacific Islands Forestry. Pacific Island Ecosystems at Risk (PIER): plant threats to Pacific ecosystems (on-line resource).
• Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
• Jagtap, A. P. & N. P. Singh. 1999. Periplocaceae. In: Botanical Survey of India, Fascicles of flora of India. 24:295–296.
• Kingsbury, J. M. 1964. Poisonous plants of the United States and Canada. [poisonous].
• Klackenberg, J. 2001. Revision of the genus Cryptostegia R. Br. (Apocynaceae, Periplocoideae). Adansonia sér. 3, 23:212–215.
• Lampe, K. F. & M. A. McCann. 1985. AMA handbook of poisonous and injurious plants. [poisonous].
• León (J. S. Sauget) & Alain (E. E. Liogier). 1946–1962. Flora de Cuba.; suppl. 1969
• Liogier, A. H. 1981–. Flora of Hispaniola: Part 1; La Flora de la Española. Part II-.
• Liogier, H. A. 1984–. Descriptive flora of Puerto Rico and adjacent islands.
• Matthew, K. M. 1983. The flora of the Tamilnadu Carnatic. [lists as C. grandiflora R. Br.].
• Parsons, W. T. & E. G. Cuthbertson. 1992. Noxious weeds of Australia.
• Proctor, G. R. 1984. Flora of the Cayman Islands. Kew Bulletin Additional Series XI.
• Weber, E. 2003. Invasive plant species of the world: a reference guide to environmental weeds.
• Wunderlin, R. & B. Hansen. Atlas of Florida vascular plants (on-line resource).

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Check other web resources for Cryptostegia grandiflora R. Br.:

• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• BONAP: North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program
• AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium
• ABRS: Australian Biological Resources Study Flora of Australia online
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Check other web resources for images:

• PlantSystematics.org
• Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

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