Taxon: Cryptostegia grandiflora R. Br.

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

Common names:

• alamanda-roxa   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005)
  
• criptostégia   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005)
  
• rubbervine   (Source: CRC MedHerbs )
  

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: also 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

View ethnobotanical data from Moerman's Native American Ethnobotany Database

Distributional range:

Native: (links to other web resources are provided for some distributions)

• AFRICA
  Western Indian Ocean: Madagascar [s.]
• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Mexico
  United States [s.e.]
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Mesoamerica: Central America
  Caribbean: West Indies

Other:

• widely cultivated in tropics

References:

• Dassanayake, M. D. & F. R. Fosberg, eds. 1980–. A revised handbook to the flora of Ceylon. (F Ceylon) [lists as C. grandiflora R. Br.].
• Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs. (CRC MedHerbs ed2)
• Duke, J. A. 1985. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs. (CRC MedHerbs)
• Evans, H. C. & A. J. Tomley. 1994. Mycopathologia. 126:93–108. [studies on a rust for biological control of this species].
• George, A. S., ed. 1980–. Flora of Australia. (F Aust)
• Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
• Holm, L. et al. 1979. A geographical atlas of world weeds. (Atlas WWeed)
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. (Dict Gard) [lists as C. grandiflora R. Br.].
• Jagtap, A. P. & N. P. Singh. 1999. Periplocaceae. In: Botanical Survey of India, Fascicles of flora of India. (Fasc F India) 24:295–296.
• Klackenberg, J. 2001. Revision of the genus Cryptostegia R. Br. (Apocynaceae, Periplocoideae). Adansonia 23:212–215.
• Matthew, K. M. 1983. The flora of the Tamilnadu Carnatic. (F TamilC) [lists as C. grandiflora R. Br.].
• Parsons, W. T. & E. G. Cuthbertson. 1992. Noxious weeds of Australia. (Noxweed Aust)
• Weber, E. 2003. Invasive plant species of the world: a reference guide to environmental weeds. (Invasive Pl Spec)

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Cryptostegia grandiflora.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Cryptostegia grandiflora. Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Check other databases for Cryptostegia grandiflora R. Br.:

• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium Map Display Interface
• ABIF: Australian Biodiversity Information Facility's Flora of Australia online
• 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.
  Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Check other databases for images:

• PlantSystematics.org
• Images 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.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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