Taxon: Antigonon leptopus Hook. & Arn.

Common names:

• chain-of-love   (Source: Zander ed16 ) – English
  
• Confederate-vine   (Source: F Guat ) – English
  
• coralvine   (Source: F CalifJep ) – English
  
• Mexican-creeper   (Source: Zander ed16 ) – English
  
• mountain-rose coralvine   (Source: F NAmer ) – English
  
• bellísima   (Source: F Guat ) – Spanish
  

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Dict Gard; Zander ed14; F NAmer)
  

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Distributional range:

• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Northern Mexico: Mexico - Baja Sur, Chihuahua, Sinaloa, Sonora
  Central Mexico: Mexico - Guerrero, Jalisco, Michoacan, Nayarit, Oaxaca
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Mesoamerica: Guatemala [possibly native in w.]

• naturalized elsewhere

• cultivated elsewhere

References:

• Burger, W. C., ed. 1971–. Flora costaricensis. (F CostaR)
• Encke, F. et al. 1993. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 14. Auflage. (Zander ed14)
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2000. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 16. Auflage. (Zander ed16)
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America. (F NAmer)
• Harling, G. & B. Sparre, eds. 1973–. Flora of Ecuador. (F Ecuador)
• Hickman, J. C., ed. 1993. The Jepson manual: Higher plants of California. (F CalifJep)
• 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)
• Mabberley, D. J. 1997. The plant-book: a portable dictionary of the vascular plants, ed. 2. (Pl Book)
• Malezasdemexico. Malezas de México - on-line resource. (Malezas Mex)
• Missouri Botanical Garden. W³Tropicos - on-line resource. (TROPICOS)
• Shreve, F. & I. L. Wiggins. 1964. Vegetation and flora of the Sonoran desert. (F SonorDes)
• Standley, P. C. & J. A. Steyermark. 1946–1976. Flora of Guatemala. (F Guat)
• Standley, P. C. 1920. Trees and shrubs of Mexico. Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 23:1-1721. (TreesS Mex)
• Stevens, W. D. et al., eds. 2001. Flora de Nicaragua. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 85(1-3). (F Nicaragua)

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Check other databases for Antigonon leptopus Hook. & Arn.:

• Flora of North America: Collaborative Floristic Effort of North American Botanists
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• 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:

• Fruit: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

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