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Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Rosids: Fabids: Fabales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Guilandina bonduc   FAMILY Fabaceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Caesalpinia bonduc   FAMILY Fabaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Guilandina bonduc

SYNONYMOUS WITH Native & naturalized Leguminosae (Fabaceae) of the US (Isely, 1998)

Caesalpinia bonduc

INCLUDING (MISAPPLIED) Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Guilandina crista

 

COMMON NAME:
Gray Nicker, Holdback


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image of Guilandina bonduc, Gray Nicker, Holdback

Bruce A. Sorrie    bas_caesalpinia_bonduc1

May    Monroe County    FL

image of Guilandina bonduc, Gray Nicker, Holdback

Bruce A. Sorrie    bas_caesalpinia_bonduc1b

May    Monroe County    FL

Legumes spiny, per Weakley's Flora (2015).

image of Guilandina bonduc, Gray Nicker, Holdback

Bruce A. Sorrie    bas_caesalpinia_bonduc2

May    Monroe County    FL

image of Guilandina bonduc, Gray Nicker, Holdback

Bruce A. Sorrie    bas_caesalpinia_bonduc2b

May    Monroe County    FL

Flowers only subtly asymmetrical [not pea-shaped].

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Guilandina bonduc   FAMILY Fabaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Caesalpinia bonduc   FAMILY Fabaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Guilandina bonduc

SYNONYMOUS WITH Native & naturalized Leguminosae (Fabaceae) of the US (Isely, 1998)
Caesalpinia bonduc

INCLUDING (MISAPPLIED) Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Guilandina crista

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

3865

Climbing woody vine
Perennial

Habitat: Coastal beaches and thickets, per Weakley's Flora

Native: peninsular Florida

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LEAVES:
Evenly 2-pinnately compound
Alternate
Stipules are large, leaflike, and usually lobed.

FLOWER:
Winter/Spring/Summer/Fall
Yellowish standard tinged with red spots
5 sepals
5 petals
10 stamens, in two whorls

Flowers in axillary racemes

FRUIT:
Winter/Spring/Summer/Fall
Legume

 

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