Pinochia corymbosa (Jacq.) M.E.Endress & B.F.Hansen is a plant in the Apocynaceae family, order Gentianales, kingdom Plantae. Not known to be toxic.

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Pinochia corymbosa (Jacq.) M.E.Endress & B.F.Hansen

Pinochia corymbosa (Jacq.) M.E.Endress & B.F.Hansen

Pinochia corymbosa is an Apocynaceae flowering plant native to the Greater Antilles, first described in 1760.

Family
Genus
Pinochia
Order
Gentianales
Class
Magnoliopsida

About Pinochia corymbosa (Jacq.) M.E.Endress & B.F.Hansen

Pinochia corymbosa, commonly called Bejuco de San Juan, is a flowering plant species belonging to the Apocynaceae family. It is native to the Greater Antilles, where it occurs across Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, and Puerto Rico. This species was first formally described by Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin in 1760, under the original scientific name Echites corymbosus. Its current accepted scientific name is Pinochia corymbosa (Jacq.) M.E.Endress & B.F.Hansen.

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Taxonomy

Plantae Tracheophyta Magnoliopsida Gentianales Apocynaceae Pinochia

More from Apocynaceae

Sources: GBIF, iNaturalist, Wikipedia, NCBI Taxonomy · Disclaimer

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