Crescentia alata

Crescentia alata

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Lamiales
Classification System: APG IV Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Plantae Cladus: Angiosperms Cladus: Eudicots Cladus: Core eudicots Cladus: Asterids Cladus: Lamiids Ordo: Lamiales

Familia: Bignoniaceae
Tribus: Crescentieae
Genus: Crescentia
Species: Crescentia alata

Name

Crescentia alata Kunth, 1819

Synonyms

• Homotypic
  • Parmentiera alata (Kunth) Miers, Trans. Linn. Soc. London 26: 166 (1868).
  • Pteromischus alatus (Kunth) Pichon, Bull. Soc. Bot. France 92: 227 (1945 publ. 1946).
• Heterotypic
  • Crescentia trifolia Blanco, Fl. Filip.: 489 (1837).
  • Otophora paradoxa Blume, Rumphia 3: 146 (1847 publ. 1849).
  • Crescentia ternata Sessé & Moc., Naturaleza (Madrid), ser. 2, 1(App.): 94 (1889).

Distribution

Native distribution areas:

Continental: Northern America Regional: Mexico Mexico (Baja California Norte, Baja California Sur, Chiapas, Chihuahua, Colima, Durango, Guerrero, Hidalgo, Jalisco, Mexico State, Michoacan, Morelos, Nayarit, Oaxaca, Puebla, Queretaro, San Luis Potosi, Sinaloa, Sonora, Tabasco, Tamaulipas, Veracruz, Zacatecas) Continental: Southern America Regional: Central America Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Panama, Nicaragua References: Brummitt, R.K. 2001. TDWG – World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2nd Edition

References

• Kunth, C.S. in F. W. H. A. von Humboldt et al., 1819. Nov. Gen. Sp. 3:123[folio]; 3:158[quarto].

Links

• Hassler, M. 2019. Crescentia alata. World Plants: Synonymic Checklists of the Vascular Plants of the World In: Roskovh, Y., Abucay, L., Orrell, T., Nicolson, D., Bailly, N., Kirk, P., Bourgoin, T., DeWalt, R.E., Decock, W., De Wever, A., Nieukerken, E. van, Zarucchi, J. & Penev, L., eds. 2019. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life. Published online. Accessed: 2019 Apr. 29. Reference page. 
• Govaerts, R. et al. 2019. Crescentia alata in Kew Science Plants of the World Online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2019 Apr. 29. Reference page. 
• International Plant Names Index. 2019. Crescentia alata. Published online. Accessed: Apr. 29 2019.
• The Plant List 2013. Crescentia alata in The Plant List Version 1.1. Published online. Accessed: 2019 Apr. 29.
• Tropicos.org 2019. Crescentia alata. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 29 Apr. 2019.
• USDA, ARS, Germplasm Resources Information Network. Crescentia alata in the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN), U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service. Accessed: 07-Oct-06.

Vernacular names

English: Mexican Calabash
suomi: Meksikonkalebassipuu

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