Taxon: Vitis tiliifolia Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd.

• authorship verified from original literature, where the name is ascribed to Humb. & Bonpl. and the diagnosis and brief description to Reliq. Willd. MS, notes provided to Schultes by Schlechtendal (see Vienna ICBN Art. 46, Ex. 11)
• spelling corrected in accordance with Vienna ICBN Art. 60.8 and ICBN Rec. 60G

Common names:

• Caribbean grape   (Source: Dict Rehm [as V. caribaea]) – English
  
• vigne des Caraïbes   (Source: Dict Rehm [as V. caribaea]) – French
  
• bejuco de agua   (Source: Dict Rehm [as V. caribaea]) – Spanish
  
• uva cimarrona   (Source: Dict Rehm [as V. caribaea]) – Spanish
  

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see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Gene sources: disease resistance for wine grape   (fide Mansf Ency, as Vitis caribaea)
  
• Gene sources: graft stock relative for wine grape   (fide Pesq Agrop Bras 36:117. 2001 (as Vitis caribaea), parental species)
  
• Gene sources: potential for crop quality in wine grape   (fide Camargo et al. 2007 for table grape berry qualities)
  
• Gene sources: tertiary genetic relative of wine grape   (fide Acta Hort 799:49. 2008; Amer J Bot 97:1173. 2010, based on phylogenetic affinities)
  

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Distributional range:

• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Northern Mexico: Mexico - Baja Sur, Durango, San Luis Potosi, Sinaloa
  Southern Mexico: Mexico - Campeche, Chiapas, Colima, Guanajuato, Guerrero, Hidalgo, Jalisco, Mexico, Michoacan, Morelos, Nayarit, Oaxaca, Puebla, Queretaro, Quintana Roo, Tabasco, Veracruz, Yucatan
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Caribbean: Cuba; Dominican Republic; Guadeloupe; Haiti; Jamaica; Puerto Rico; Virgin Islands (U.S.) - St. Croix, St. John
  Mesoamerica: Belize; Costa Rica; El Salvador; Guatemala; Honduras; Nicaragua; Panama
  Western South America: Colombia; Ecuador

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.
• Aradhya, M. et al. 2008. Genetic structure, differentiation, and phylogeny of the genus Vitis: implications for genetic conservation. Acta Hort. 799:43–49.
• Balick, M. J. et al. 2000. Checklist of the vascular plants of Belize, with common names and uses. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 85.
• Camargo, U. et al. 2007. Grapevine breeding for tropical and subtropical environments in Brazil.
• Galet, P. 1988. Les vignes américaines. In: Galet, P., Cépages et vignobles de France. 2nd ed. Montpellier, France. 1:78. [as V. tiliifolia Humb. & Bonpl. in synonymy of V. caribaea].
• Harling, G. & B. Sparre, eds. 1973–. Flora of Ecuador.
• Howard, R. 1974–1989. Flora of the lesser Antilles. [lists as V. tiliifolia Roem. & Schult.].
• León (J. S. Sauget) & Alain (E. E. Liogier). 1946–1962. Flora de Cuba.; suppl. 1969 ["tiliaefolia"].
• 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.
• Lombardi, J. A. 2007. Systematics of Vitaceae in South America. Canad. J. Bot. 85:712–721. [cites].
• Pauletto, D. et al. 2001. Produção e vigor da videira "Niágara rosada" relacionados com o porta-enxerto. Pesq. Agropecu. Brasil. 36:115–121. [cites as Vitis caribaea, a parental species of a graft stock that resulted in high production].
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. [= V. caribaea].
• Rzedowski, J. & G. Rzedowski, eds. 1991–. Flora del Bajio y de regiones adyacentes.
• Standley, P. C. & J. A. Steyermark. 1946–1976. Flora of Guatemala.
• Stevens, W. D. et al., eds. 2001. Flora de Nicaragua. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 85(1-3).
• Tröndle, D. et al. 2010. Molecular phylogeny of the genus Vitis (Vitaceae) based on plastid markers. Amer. J. Bot. 97:1168–1178.
• Woodson, R. E. & R. W. Schery, eds. 1943–1980. Flora of Panama.
• Grape crop germplasm committee genetic vulnerability statement 2004. [cites].

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Synonyms:

• (=) Vitis caribaea DC.
  (previously associated with 5 accessions)

Check other web resources for Vitis tiliifolia Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd.:

• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• 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.

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.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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