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Rhamnaceae

Gouania

Gouania tiliifolia

Gouania tiliifolia subsp. tiliifolia

This subspecies is accepted

The native range of this subspecies is Mascarenes. It is a liana and grows primarily in the wet tropical biome.

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Native to:

Mauritius, Réunion

Heterotypic Synonyms

Gouania retinaria DC. in Prodr. 2: 40 (1825), nom. illeg.
Gouania scandens (Gaertn.) R.B.Drumm. in Fl. Zambes. 2: 435 (1966)
Gouania sieberiana Schltdl. ex C.Presl in Abh. Königl. Böhm. Ges. Wiss., ser. 5, 3: 469 (1845)
Gouania stadtmannii Soy.-Will. in Ann. Bot. (Usteri) 18: 58 (1796)
Retinaria scandens Gaertn. in Fruct. Sem. Pl. 2: 187 (1791)
Retinaria volubilis Gaertn. in Fruct. Sem. Pl. 2: 187 (1791), nom. superfl.

Kingdom Plantae
Phylum Streptophyta
Class Equisetopsida
Subclass Magnoliidae
Order
Rosales

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Family
Rhamnaceae

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Genus
Gouania

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Species
Gouania tiliifolia
Subspecies
Gouania tiliifolia subsp. tiliifolia

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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.

Kew Backbone Distributions

Buerki, S., Phillipson, P.B. & Callmander, M.W. (2011). A taxonomic revision of Gouania (Rhamnaceae) in Madagascar and the other islands of the western Indian Ocean (the Comoro and Mascarene islands and Seychelles). Annals from the Missouri Botanical Garden 98: 157-195. MBG press.

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

IPNI - The International Plant Names Index

Flora Zambesiaca
- Flora Zambesiaca
- 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 2024. 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 2024. 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