Tabernaemontana litoralis Kunth
First published in F.W.H.von Humboldt, A.J.A.Bonpland & C.S.Kunth, Nov. Gen. Sp. 3: 228 (1819)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is Mexico to W. Colombia. It is a shrub or tree and grows primarily in the wet tropical biome. It is has environmental uses.
Distribution
Native to:
Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Nicaragua, Panamá
Introduced into:
Cuba, Hawaii
Synonyms
Homotypic Synonyms
- Peschiera litoralis (Kunth) Miers in Apocyn. S. Amer.: 45 (1878)
- Stemmadenia litoralis (Kunth) L.Allorge in Mém. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat., B, Bot. 30: 48 (1985)
Heterotypic Synonyms
- Echites bignoniiflorus Schltdl. in Linnaea 26: 372 (1854)
- Odontostigma galeottianum A.Rich. in R.de la Sagra, Hist. Fis. Cuba, Bot. 11: 87 (1850)
- Stemmadenia bella Miers in Apocyn. S. Amer.: 77 (1878)
- Stemmadenia bignoniiflora (Schltdl.) Miers in Apocyn. S. Amer.: 77 (1878)
- Stemmadenia galeottiana (A.Rich.) Miers in Apocyn. S. Amer.: 76 (1878)
- Stemmadenia greenmanii Woodson in Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 15: 360 (1928)
- Stemmadenia insignis Miers in Apocyn. S. Amer.: 76 (1878)
- Stemmadenia macrophylla Greenm. in Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 35: 310 (1900)
- Tabernaemontana laurifolia Schott ex Miers in Apocyn. S. Amer.: 76 (1878)
Publications
An alternative taxonomy had been proposed by the following authorities:
- Govaerts, R. (2003). World Checklist of Selected Plant Families Database in ACCESS: 1-216203. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. [Cited as Stemmadenia grandiflora.]
Kew Backbone Distributions
- Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. & Strong, M.T. (2012). Catalogue of seed plants of the West Indies. Smithsonian Contributions to Botany 98: 1-1192.
- Evenhuis, N.L. & Eldredge, L.G. (eds.) (2012). Records of the Hawaii biological survey for 2011. Part II: plants. Bishop Museum Occasional Papers 113: 1-102.
- Idárraga-Piedrahita, A., Ortiz, R.D.C., Callejas Posada, R. & Merello, M. (eds.) (2011). Flora de Antioquia: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares 2: 1-939. Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín.
Useful Plants and Fungi of Colombia
- Bernal, R., Gradstein, S.R., & Celis, M. (eds.). (2020). Catálogo de Plantas y Líquenes de Colombia. v1.1. Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Dataset/Checklist. https://doi.org/10.15472/7avdhn
- Diazgranados et al. (2021). Catalogue of plants of Colombia. Useful Plants and Fungi of Colombia project. In prep.
- Diazgranados, M., Allkin, B., Black N., Cámara-Leret, R., Canteiro C., Carretero J., Eastwood R., Hargreaves S., Hudson A., Milliken W., Nesbitt, M., Ondo, I., Patmore, K., Pironon, S., Turner, R., Ulian, T. (2020). World Checklist of Useful Plant Species. Produced by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Knowledge Network for Biocomplexity.
- GBIF.org (2021). GBIF species matching tool. https://www.gbif.org/tools/species-lookup
- IUCN (2021). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2021-2. https://www.iucnredlist.org.
Other Data
Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:
Date | Reference | Identified As | Barcode | Type Status | Has image? |
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Mexico | K001342548 | Yes | |||
Mexico | K001492934 | Yes | |||
Mexico | K001492936 | Yes | |||
Mexico | K001492937 | Yes | |||
Mexico | K001492938 | Yes | |||
Mexico | K001492939 | Yes | |||
Mexico | K001492940 | Yes | |||
Mexico | K001492941 | Yes | |||
Mexico | K001492942 | Yes | |||
Mexico | K001492943 | Yes | |||
Mexico | K001492944 | Yes | |||
Mexico | K001492945 | Yes | |||
Mexico | K001492946 | Yes | |||
Mexico | K001492947 | Yes | |||
Jan 1, 1990 | Botteri [884], Mexico | Stemmadenia litoralis | K000587857 | isotype | Yes |
Jan 1, 1992 | Tuerckheim, H. von [981], Guatemala | Stemmadenia macrophylla | K000587855 | isotype | Yes |
Jan 1, 1990 | Brenes, A.M. [14275], Costa Rica | Stemmadenia macrophylla | K000587852 | isotype | Yes |
Jan 1, 1990 | Cooper, G.P. [510], Panama | Stemmadenia macrophylla | K000587866 | isotype | Yes |
Jan 1, 1990 | Heyde [4538], Guatemala | Stemmadenia macrophylla | K000587854 | isotype | Yes |
Jan 1, 1990 | Brenes, A. [14275], Costa Rica | Stemmadenia macrophylla | K000587853 | isotype | Yes |
Sparrow, M. and P. Brewster [VERA124], Mexico | Stemmadenia galeottiana | K000696108 | No |
Sources
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Catálogo de Plantas y Líquenes de Colombia
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0
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Herbarium Catalogue Specimens
- Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
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IUCN Categories
- IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0
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Kew Backbone Distributions
- The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2023. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
- © Copyright 2022 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
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Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone
- The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2023. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
- © Copyright 2022 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
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Kew Science Photographs
- Copyright applied to individual images
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Universidad Nacional de Colombia
- ColPlantA database
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0
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Useful Plants and Fungi of Colombia
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0