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How about Agdestis clematidea Moc. & Sess� ex DC.?


"Monique Reed" <monique@mail.bio.tamu.edu> wrote in message
news:419A2531.F3792CA5@mail.bio.tamu.edu...
> I've helped ID a few mystery plants posted to this group, but now I
> need everyone's help myself.
>
> I've been handed a real stumper.
>
> Collected in Hidalgo Co, Texas.  High-climbing vine without tendrils.
> Leaves alternate (they look opposite in the images, but it's just how
> the specimen was pressed), glabrous, with slender petioles to ca. 2 cm
> long on flowering branches, blades ovate to slightly reniform, entire,
> apically rounded, to ca. 3 cm long.  Flowers in axillary panicles.
> Pedicels minutely bracteate; perianth apparently in one whorl,
> 4-parted, the parts oblanceolate, whitish, ca. 1 cm long.  Stamens
> apparently several to many, the filaments very slender and as long as
> or longer than the perianth parts, anthers long, versatile.  Ovary
> superior, looks like 3 to 5 recurved style branches; looks syncarpous
> but the specimen is dry and difficult to examine.  I have no fruit to
> look at.
>
> My first thought was "autumn clematis," but the leaves are simple and
> it's not glaringly apocarpous.  It's not Cocculus, and it's not
> bittersweet (I don't think).
>
> Does anyone have any ideas?  This far south, there's always the chance
> it's something exotic that has run amok, but you'd think I could suss
> it out *somehow*!
>
> plant, half size
> http://botany.cs.tamu.edu/FLORA/pic1/hidalgomysteryhalf.JPG
> plant, full size
> http://botany.cs.tamu.edu/FLORA/pic1/hidalgomysteryfull.JPG
> flowers, x 2
> http://botany.cs.tamu.edu/FLORA/pic1/hidalgomysteryx2.JPG
> flowers, x 4
> http://botany.cs.tamu.edu/FLORA/pic1/hidalgomysteryx4.JPG
>
> Monique Reed
> Bio Dept.
> TAMU

Here is an illustration of Agdestis clematidea (on the left).

http://www.efloras.org/object_page.aspx?object_id=38097&flora_id=1

Does the plant have a distinctive foul odor?

http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&taxon_id=220000316

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"Cereus-validus..." <fashizzle.yourself@spam.net> wrote in message
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> How about Agdestis clematidea Moc. & Sess� ex DC.?
>
>
> "Monique Reed" <monique@mail.bio.tamu.edu> wrote in message
> news:419A2531.F3792CA5@mail.bio.tamu.edu...
> > I've helped ID a few mystery plants posted to this group, but now I
> > need everyone's help myself.
> >
> > I've been handed a real stumper.
> >
> > Collected in Hidalgo Co, Texas.  High-climbing vine without tendrils.
> > Leaves alternate (they look opposite in the images, but it's just how
> > the specimen was pressed), glabrous, with slender petioles to ca. 2 cm
> > long on flowering branches, blades ovate to slightly reniform, entire,
> > apically rounded, to ca. 3 cm long.  Flowers in axillary panicles.
> > Pedicels minutely bracteate; perianth apparently in one whorl,
> > 4-parted, the parts oblanceolate, whitish, ca. 1 cm long.  Stamens
> > apparently several to many, the filaments very slender and as long as
> > or longer than the perianth parts, anthers long, versatile.  Ovary
> > superior, looks like 3 to 5 recurved style branches; looks syncarpous
> > but the specimen is dry and difficult to examine.  I have no fruit to
> > look at.
> >
> > My first thought was "autumn clematis," but the leaves are simple and
> > it's not glaringly apocarpous.  It's not Cocculus, and it's not
> > bittersweet (I don't think).
> >
> > Does anyone have any ideas?  This far south, there's always the chance
> > it's something exotic that has run amok, but you'd think I could suss
> > it out *somehow*!
> >
> > plant, half size
> > http://botany.cs.tamu.edu/FLORA/pic1/hidalgomysteryhalf.JPG
> > plant, full size
> > http://botany.cs.tamu.edu/FLORA/pic1/hidalgomysteryfull.JPG
> > flowers, x 2
> > http://botany.cs.tamu.edu/FLORA/pic1/hidalgomysteryx2.JPG
> > flowers, x 4
> > http://botany.cs.tamu.edu/FLORA/pic1/hidalgomysteryx4.JPG
> >
> > Monique Reed
> > Bio Dept.
> > TAMU
>
>