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Taxon: Mansoa alliacea (Lam.) A. H. Gentry

Genus: Mansoa
Family: Bignoniaceae tribe: Bignonieae.
Nomen number: 315387
Place of publication: Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 66:782. 1980 ("1979")
Name verified on: 06-Dec-1989 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 06-Jun-2000
No species priority site assigned.

NO ACCESSIONS IN NPGS UNDER THIS NAME.

Common names:

  • bejuco de ajo   (Source: Dict Gard ) – Spanish

Economic importance:

  • Medicines: folklore   (fide Pl Book)

Distributional range:

      Native:
  • SOUTHERN AMERICA
    Mesoamerica: Costa Rica
    Northern South America: French Guiana; Guyana; Suriname
    Brazil: Brazil [Amazon region]
    Western South America: Ecuador - Morona-Santiago, Napo; Peru - Amazonas, Huanuco, Loreto, San Martin

References:

  • Boggan, J. et al. 1997. Checklist of the plants of the Guianas, ed. 2. (L Guianas ed2)
  • Brako, L. & J. L. Zarucchi. 1993. Catalogue of the flowering plants and gymnosperms of Peru. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 45. (L Peru)
  • Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. (Dict Gard)
  • Jørgensen, P. M. & S. León-Yánez, eds. 1999. Catalogue of the vascular plants of Ecuador. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 75. (L Ecuador)
  • Liogier, H. A. 1984–. Descriptive flora of Puerto Rico and adjacent islands. (F PuertoR)
  • Mabberley, D. J. 1997. The plant-book: a portable dictionary of the vascular plants, ed. 2. (Pl Book)
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Check other databases for Mansoa alliacea (Lam.) A. H. Gentry:

  • 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.
    Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Images:

More:
  • Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
  • Google 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.

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Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database].
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
URL: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?315387 (09 February 2010)

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