Macfadyena unguis-cati (L.) A.H. Gentry
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Distribución: En bosques húmedos de elevaciones medias y bajas, desde la costa hasta la Cordillera Central. También en Culebra, Desecheo, Mona, Vieques, St. Croix, St. John, St. Thomas, Tortola y Virgen Gorda; a través de las Antillas y América tropical y subtropical.
Bosques Públicos: Cambalache, Ceiba, Desecheo, El Yunque, Guánica, Maricao, Mona, Río Abajo, Susúa, Toro Negro y Vega.
Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLDS) Stats
Public Records: 3
Specimens with Barcodes: 19
Species With Barcodes: 1
Distribution: In moist forests at middle and lower elevations, from the coast to the Cordillera Central. Also on Culebra, Desecheo, Vieques, St. Croix, St. John, St. Thomas, Tortola, and Virgin Gorda; throughout the Antilles and tropical and subtropical America.
Public forest: Cambalache, Ceiba, Desecheo, El Yunque, Guánica, Maricao, Río Abajo, Susúa, Toro Negro, and Vega.
United States
Rounded National Status Rank: NNA - Not Applicable
Distribucion en Costa Rica: Zona Norte, vertiente del Pacífico y el Atlántico, incluso zonas bajas y medias de las cordilleras y las fajas costeñas, entre los 0 y 1300 metros de elevación.
Distribucion General: México, islas del Caribe hasta Argentina.
Rounded Global Status Rank: GNR - Not Yet Ranked
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Whole plant: Juice is alexiteric. Decoction for febrifuge wash. Stem and Leaf: Infusion as sudorific for fevers; bechic, emollient. Used for female sterility and hemorrhage in NW Guyana. Leaf: Mixed with honey in an infusion to treat coughs, for a febrifuge and diuretic, and to treat snakebite.
Distribution: A native of Argentine & Brazil. Cultivated elsewhere.
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Dolichandra unguis-cati, commonly known as cats claw creeper, funnel creeper,[2] or cat's claw trumpet,[2] is a rapidly growing climbing vine belonging to the family Bignoniaceae.[3]
Description[edit]
Dolichandra unguis-cati has semipersistent foliage. The stems are woody and can reach 20 meters. Thin and small aerial roots are used for climbing. The leaves are dark green, opposite and bifoliate. The leaflets have a length of 3 to 4 cm. The plant produces flowers during the wet season. The flowers are yellow, have a diameter of 4 to 5 cm and can grow alone or in groups of 2 or 3. The long primary roots extend beneath the soil surface, producing large tubers 40–50 centimetres long. The fruits are brown flattened capsules from 25 to 95 cm long. Each capsule contains 100 to 200 seeds.
Distribution and habitat[edit]
This plant is native to the tropical dry forest of Central America, South America and the Caribbean. In these natural areas it occurs from sea level to over 600 meters above sea level and where the rainfall is 750 to 2400 mm per year. It can become invasive and it is present worldwide. It can affect all layers of plants of forest ecosystems by rapidly spreading both vertically and horizontally.
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- ^ "The Plant List: A Working List of All Plant Species".
- ^ a b "USDA GRIN Taxonomy".
- ^ "Cat's claw creeper (Macfadyena unguis-cati)". Brisbane Rainforest Newsletter; Brisbane Rainforest Action & Information Network. April 1996. Retrieved 15 May 2013.
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