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Accession Data:

Dolichandra unguis-cati (L.) L.G.Lohmann

  • Common Name: Cat's Claw Vine
  • Family: Bignoniaceae Juss.

  • Country of Origin: Mexico to Trop. America
  • Habitat: tropical dry forest, tropical and premontane moist forest

  • USDA Zone: 8a-10b

Accession Data:

  • Accession # 198500659
  • Source: Wellesley
  • Accession Date: 12-31-1985
  • Bench: 1302 - NEOA: North Bench E
    • Currently: active - healthy
    • Qty: 1 confirmed on 12-31-2024

Classification:

  • Division: Magnoliophyta
  • Class: Magnoliopsida
  • SubClass: euasterid I
  • Order: Lamiales
  • SubOrder:
  • Family: Bignoniaceae
  • SubFamily:
  • Tribe: Bignonieae
  • SubTribe:

Flowering Data:

This accession has been observed in bloom on:
YearJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
2024
2023
2022
2021
2020
2019
2018
2017
2016
2015
2014
2013
2012
2011
2010
2009

References (internal):

  • EEB 3271 - Systematic Botany
  • EEB 3203 - Developmental Plant Morphology
  • EEB Greenhouse Holdings native to: Mexico Central / Mexico Northeast / Mexico Gulf / Mexico Northwest / Mexico Southwest / Mexico Southeast / Belize / Costa Rica / El Salvador / Guatemala / Honduras / Nicaragua / Panama / Bahamas / Cuba / Dominican Republic / Haiti / Jamaica / Leeward Is. / Puerto Rico / Southwest Caribbean / Trinidad-Tobago / Venezuelan Antilles / Windward Is. / French Guiana / Guyana / Suriname / Venezuela / Bolivia / Colombia / Ecuador / Peru / Brazil West-Central / Brazil Northeast / Brazil Southeast / Brazil North / Brazil South / Argentina Northeast / Argentina Northwest / Paraguay / Uruguay

References (external):

  1. The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1. Last accessed on Tuesday, December 13, 2016.
  2. WCSP (2016). World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Last accessed on Tuesday, December 13, 2016.
  3. Dolichandra unguis-cati at Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Last accessed on Tuesday, December 13, 2016.

data regenerated on Tue, 31 Dec 2024 11:24:01 -0500 [bcm v4.0]

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Current Accessions in the Bignoniaceae

Subfamily
Tribe Bignonieae

  • Adenocalymma comosum
  • Bignonia magnifica
  • Clytostoma callistegioides
  • Dolichandra unguis-cati
  • Pyrostegia venusta

Subfamily
Tribe Coleeae

  • Phyllarthron bernierianum W/C

Subfamily
Tribe Crescentieae

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Subfamily
Tribe Tecomeae

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  • Podranea ricasoliana
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W/C = Wild Collected
= indicates flowering in past 14 days
= images available for this accession
= map available for this accession
= accession added within past 90 days
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