Anredera vesicaria explained

Anredera vesicaria, common names Texas madeiravine or sacasile, and the related A. cordifolia are the only two species of the family Basellaceae known to occur in the wild in the contiguous United States. Both are sometimes cultivated for their showy and fragrant floral displays. Anredera cordifolia is widespread throughout the warmer regions of the world, including outside its natural range as an invasive species. Anredera vesicaria is native to Texas as well as to Mexico, Central America, West Indies, and Venezuela^[1] and it is introduced in Florida.^[2] In Texas and Florida the species grows in thickets and in disturbed areas such as roadsides and fence rows at elevations less than 500 m (1650 feet).^{[3] [4]}

Anredera vesicaria is an herbaceous, twining vine that can reach a height of 8 m (27 feet). It has small, cream-colored flowers less than 2 mm (0.08 inches) across but borne in large racemes or panicles as much as 70 cm (28 inches) long. The flowers produce an intense and pleasant scent.^{[5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10]}

Notes and References

1. http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=360651 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
2. Wunderlin, R. P., & Hansen, B. F. (2003). Guide to the vascular plants of Florida. Gainesville: University Press of Florida.
3. http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&taxon_id=242415817 Flora of North America v 4 p 507.
4. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/716974#page/431/mode/1up Lamarck, Jean Baptiste Antoine Pierre de Monnet de. Encyclopédie Méthodique, Botanique 1(2): 382. 1785.
5. Bogle, A. L. 1969. The genera of Portulacaceae and Basellaceae in the southeastern United States. Journal of the Arnold Arboretum 50: 566-598.
6. Sperling, C. R. 1987. Systematics of the Basellaceae. Ph.D. dissertation. Harvard University
7. Wilson, P. 1932e. Basellaceae. In: N. L. Britton et al., eds. 1905+. North American Flora.... 47+ vols. New York. Vol. 21, pp. 337-339.
8. Gaertner, Carl (Karl) Friedrich von. Supplementum Carpologiae 176. 1807.
9. Stevens, W. D., C. Ulloa Ulloa, A. Pool & O. M. Montiel Jarquín. 2001. Flora de Nicaragua. Monographs in systematic botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 85: i–xlii,.
10. Gereau, R. E. 2001. Baselaceae. In Flora de Nicaragua. Monographs in systematic botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 85(1): 395–396.