Araujia odorata

(Hooker & Arnott) Fontella & Goyder

Phytotaxa 26: 11. 2011.

Common names: Strangler or milkweed vine latexplant
Introduced
Basionym: Cynanchum odoratum Hooker & Arnott J. Bot. (Hooker) 1: 294. 1835
Synonyms: Morrenia odorata (Hooker & Arnott) Lindley
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 14.

Stems to 15 m. Leaves: petiole 0.5–4 cm, eglandular-pubescent; blade ovate, deltate, or hastate, 1.8–8 × 0.8–6 cm, base truncate to cordate, surfaces glabrous to eglandular-pubescent. Inflorescences: peduncle 0.1–0.7 cm, eglandular-pubescent. Pedicels 0.6–1.5 cm, eglandular-pubescent. Flowers: sepals green, lanceolate to oblong, not leaflike, 5–13 × 1–3 mm, surfaces eglandular-pubescent; calycine colleters present; corolla pale to waxy green, rotate, lobes 7–13 × 2–4 mm, abaxial surface eglandular-pubescent, adaxial surface glabrous; gynostegial corona a fused tube, 5–8 mm, obscuring gynostegium, glabrous; style-head extension absent. Follicles 8–12 × 2–7 cm, glabrous. Seeds brownish black to black, 5–6 × 1.5–2 mm; coma 2–5 cm. 2n = 22.


Phenology: Flowering summer–fall; fruiting fall–winter.
Habitat: Citrus groves, roadsides, waste places, dunes, beaches.
Elevation: 0–100 m.

Distribution

Introduced; Fla., South America, introduced also in Central America.

Discussion

Native to central South America, Araujia odorata was introduced to the United States as an ornamental in the 1930s and first observed in a citrus grove in Florida in 1957 (D. P. H. Tucker and R. L. Phillips 1974; D. L. Spellman and C. R. Gunn 1976).

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

None.
... more about "Araujia odorata"
C. Lee Kimmel +  and Alexander Krings +
(Hooker & Arnott) Fontella & Goyder +
Cynanchum odoratum +
Strangler or milkweed vine +  and latexplant +
Fla. +, South America +  and introduced also in Central America. +
0–100 m. +
Citrus groves, roadsides, waste places, dunes, beaches. +
Flowering summer–fall +  and fruiting fall–winter. +
Introduced +
Morrenia odorata +
Araujia odorata +
species +