Apocynaceae

Vincetoxicum Wolf

First published in Gen. Pl.: 130 (1776)
This genus is accepted
The native range of this genus is Europe, NW. Africa, Socotra, Asia to SW. Pacific.

Distribution

Native to:

Afghanistan, Albania, Aldabra, Algeria, Amur, Andaman Is., Angola, Assam, Austria, Baleares, Baltic States, Bangladesh, Belarus, Belgium, Benin, Bismarck Archipelago, Borneo, Bulgaria, Burkina, Buryatiya, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Provinces, Caroline Is., Central African Republic, Central European Russia, Chad, China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Chita, Comoros, Congo, Corse, Czechia-Slovakia, Denmark, Djibouti, DR Congo, East Aegean Is., East European Russia, East Himalaya, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Fiji, Finland, France, Gabon, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Gulf of Guinea Is., Hainan, Hungary, India, Inner Mongolia, Iran, Iraq, Italy, Ivory Coast, Japan, Jawa, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Khabarovsk, Korea, Kriti, Krym, KwaZulu-Natal, Laccadive Is., Laos, Lebanon-Syria, Lesser Sunda Is., Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaya, Mali, Maluku, Manchuria, Mauritius, Mongolia, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nansei-shoto, Nepal, Netherlands, New Caledonia, New Guinea, New South Wales, Nicobar Is., Nigeria, Norfolk Is., North Caucasus, Northern Provinces, Northern Territory, Norway, NW. Balkan Pen., Pakistan, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Primorye, Qinghai, Queensland, Romania, Rwanda, Sakhalin, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Socotra, Solomon Is., Somalia, South Australia, South European Russia, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sudan-South Sudan, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Sweden, Switzerland, Tadzhikistan, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Tibet, Togo, Tonga, Transcaucasus, Turkmenistan, Türkiye, Türkiye-in-Europe, Uganda, Ukraine, Vanuatu, Victoria, Vietnam, West Himalaya, West Siberia, Western Australia, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Introduced into:

California, Connecticut, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Leeward Is., Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New Brunswick, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Ontario, Pennsylvania, Québec, Rhode I., Réunion, Vermont, Windward Is., Wisconsin

Recorded in error in:

Sardegna

Synonyms

Homotypic Synonyms

Heterotypic Synonyms

Accepted Species

Classification

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Publications

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

  • Govaerts, R., Nic Lughadha, E., Black, N., Turner, R. & Paton, A. (2021). The World Checklist of Vascular Plants, a continuously updated resource for exploring global plant diversity. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-021-00997-6. Scientific Data 8: 215.
  • Stalažs, A. (2024). List of vascular plants of Latvia (with Latvian names): 1-312. Dobele.

Flora Zambesiaca

  • Liede-Schumann & Meve in Phytotaxa 369: 131 (2018).
  • Wolf, Gen. Pl.: 130 (1776).

Other Data

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

Sources

  • EBC Common Names

    • Common Names from Kew's Economic Botany Collection https://www.kew.org/science/collections-and-resources/collections/economic-botany-collection

  • Flora Zambesiaca

    • Flora Zambesiaca
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Flora of Somalia

    • Flora of Somalia
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Flora of Tropical East Africa

    • Flora of Tropical East Africa
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2026. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2026. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0