Taxon: Fouquieria splendens Engelm.

Common names:

• vine-cactus   (Source: Websters Dict ) – English
  
• ocotillo   (Source: Websters Dict ) – Spanish (Mexico)
  
• ocotillo   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

Economic importance:

• Medicines: folklore   (fide Herbs Commerce ed2)
  

More:

View ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

View ethnobotanical data from Moerman's Native American Ethnobotany Database

Distributional range:

• NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
  South-Central U.S.A.: United States - New Mexico [s.], Texas
  Southwestern U.S.A.: United States - Arizona, California [s.], Nevada [s.]
  Northern Mexico: Mexico - Baja California, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Durango, Nuevo Leon [s.w.], San Luis Potosi, Sonora, Tamaulipas [s.], Zacatecas
  Southern Mexico: Mexico - Guerrero, Hidalgo, Queretaro

References:

• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• Henrickson, J. 1972. A taxonomic revision of the Fouquieriaceae. Aliso 7:506.
• Hickman, J. C., ed. 1993. The Jepson manual: higher plants of California.
• Martin, W. C. & C. R. Hutchins. 1980. A flora of New Mexico.
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2.
• McVaugh, R. 1983–. Flora Novo-Galiciana.
• Shreve, F. & I. L. Wiggins. 1964. Vegetation and flora of the Sonoran desert.
• Wiggins, I. L. 1980. Flora of Baja California.
• Webster's third new international dictionary.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Fouquieria splendens.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Fouquieria splendens.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Fouquieria splendens.

Check other web resources for Fouquieria splendens Engelm.:

• 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
• 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.

Images:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.
• Fruit: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Seeds: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

More:

• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• 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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