Mandevilla boliviensis (Hook.f.) Woodson, Apocynaceae

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Present on Pacific Islands?  yes

Primarily a threat at high elevations?  no

Risk assessment results:  Evaluate, score: 1 (Go to the risk assessment).

Other Latin names:  Dipladenia boliviensis Hook. f.

Common name(s): [more details]

English: white dipladenia, white mandevilla

Habit:  vine

Description:  "Liana, glabrous, even the showy white flowers, or the leaves usually sparsely glandular at the base of the midrib above; petioles 1- about 2 cm. long; nodal appendages obsolete or obscure, at least the upper; leaves elliptic to obovate-elliptic, obtuse at base, caudate-acuminate, 6-10 cm. long, 2-4 cm. wide, the somewhat shorter racemes 3-7-flowered; pedicels 1.5-2 cm. long; bracts minute, ovate, scarious as the ovate-lanceolate acuminate calyx lobes, these 4-5 mm. long, the squamellae in groups of 4-6; corollas infundibuliform, the straight tube 1.5-1.75 cm. long, about 1.5 mm. across at base, the narrowly conical throat 2.25-2.5 cm. long, to 1 cm. in diameter at orifice, the widely spreading shortly acuminate lobes 2-3 cm. long; anthers auriculate, 1 cm. long; ovary glabrous, the 2 nectaries half as long; stigma 2 mm. long"  (Macbride, 1936; 13(5/1)419-210).

Habitat/ecology:  (no habitat/ecology info known by PIER)

Propagation:  Seed

Native range:  Costa Rica, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru (GRIN).

Presence:

Pacific
Country/Terr./St. & Island group	Location	Cited status & Cited as invasive & Cited as cultivated & Cited as aboriginal introduction?	Reference & Comments
State of Hawaii Hawaiian Islands	O‘ahu Island		Bishop Museum (U.S.A. Hawaii. Honolulu.) (1992) (voucher ID: BISH 624294) Taxon name on voucher: Mandevilla boliviensis

Pacific Rim
Country/Terr./St. & Island group	Location	Cited status & Cited as invasive & Cited as cultivated & Cited as aboriginal introduction?	Reference & Comments
Colombia Colombia	Colombia (Republic of)	native	U.S. Dept. Agr., Agr. Res. Serv. (2011)
Costa Rica Costa Rica	Costa Rica (Republic of)	native	U.S. Dept. Agr., Agr. Res. Serv. (2011) Alajuela, Cartago, Limon
Ecuador (Mainland) Ecuador	Ecuador (Republic of) (continental)	native	U.S. Dept. Agr., Agr. Res. Serv. (2011) Tungurahua
Perú Perú	Perú (Republic of)	native	Macbride, J. Francis (1936) (pp. 13(5/1)419-210) Cajamarca

Additional information:
Additional online information about Mandevilla boliviensis is available from the Hawaiian Ecosystems at Risk project (HEAR).

Information about Mandevilla boliviensis as a weed (worldwide references) may be available from the Global Compendium of Weeds (GCW).

Taxonomic information about Mandevilla boliviensis may be available from the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN).

References:

Bishop Museum (U.S.A. Hawaii. Honolulu.). 1992. Voucher specimen #BISH624294(Staples, G. 858).

Macbride, J. Francis. 1936. Flora of Peru. Field Museum of Natural History, Botanical Series, Vol. XIII. 1936-1971, 6 parts.

U.S. Dept. Agr., Agr. Res. Serv. 2011. National Genetic Resources Program. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN). Online searchable database.