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Vitis shuttleworthii

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Bear grape
Bear grape at Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge in Brevard County, Florida

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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Vitales
Family: Vitaceae
Genus: Vitis
Species:
V. shuttleworthii
Binomial name
Vitis shuttleworthii
Synonyms[1]

Vitis coriacea Shuttlew. ex Planch. (1887) not Michx. (1803)

Vitis shuttleworthii is a North American liana (woody vine) in the grape family commonly known as the calloose grape or bear grape (alternatively referred as calusa grape). The name refers to the group of Native American people that resided in southwest Florida, the Calusa. It is native to south and central Florida, with isolated populations in southern Alabama.[2][3]

The species was first described in 1887 using the name Vitis coriacea.[4] However, this name had already been used for an Asian plant,[5] so it was necessary to coin another name of the American species, now called V. shuttleworthii.[6][2]

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References

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  1. ^ Tropicos, Vitis shuttleworthii House
  2. ^ a b "Vitis shuttleworthii". Germplasm Resources Information Network. Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture. Retrieved April 21, 2010.
  3. ^ Biota of North America Program 2014 county distribution map
  4. ^ Planchon, Jules Émile in Candolle, Alphonse Louis Pierre Pyramus de & Candolle, Anne Casimir Pyramus de 1887. Monographiae Phanerogamarum 5(2): 345 description in Latin, commentary in French
  5. ^ Miquel, Friedrich Anton Wilhelm 1863. Annales Musei Botanici Lugduno-Batavi 1: 78 in Latin
  6. ^ House, Homer Doliver. 1921. American Midland Naturalist 7(4–5): 129
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