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Smilax anceps

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Wikipedia Abstract

Smilax anceps Willd. is a vigorous scrambling vine or shrub, and is one of some 278 species in the genus Smilax in the family Smilacaceae. The species is widespread in Tropical Africa, Southern Africa, Réunion, Mauritius, Comoros, and Madagascar. The specific name 'anceps' is Latin for 'dangerous', a caution against the hooked prickles. Tarundia cinctipennis Stål, 1862, a hemipteran insect, is associated with this plant. This species was first described and published in 1806 by Carl Ludwig von Willdenow, the early German phytogeographer in "Species Plantarum" Editio Quarto 4: 782.
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Attributes

Allergen Potential [1]  Medium-High
Leaf Type [2]  Evergreen

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Kruger National Park II 4718115 Mpumalanga, South Africa

Predators

Providers

Pollinated by 
Apis mellifera (honey bee)[6]
Chrysomya megacephala (Oriental latrine blowfly)[6]
Paragus borbonicus[6]

External References

Citations

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♦ 1Derived from Allergy-Free Gardening OPALS™, Thomas Leo Ogren (2000)
♦ 2Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 3HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández
♦ 4Fruit-frugivore interactions in a Malagasy littoral forest: a community-wide approach of seed dispersal, An Bollen, UNIVERSITEIT ANTWERPEN 2003
♦ 5Diet, Nutritional Ecology, and Birth Season of Eulemur macaco in an Anthropogenic Forest in Madagascar, Bruno Simmen & Françoise Bayart & André Marez & Annette Hladik, Int J Primatol (2007) 28:1253–1266
♦ 6Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 7Dietary Variability of Mountain Gorillas in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda; Jessica Ganas, Martha M. Robbins, John Boscoe Nkurunungi, Beth A. Kaplin, and Alastair McNeilage; International Journal of Primatology, Vol. 25, No. 5, October 2004, p. 1043-1072
♦ 8Diet of Grauer’s Gorillas in the Montane Forest of Kahuzi, Democratic Republic of Congo; Juichi Yamagiwa, Augustin Kanyunyi Basabose, Kiswele Kaleme, and Takakazu Yumoto; International Journal of Primatology, Vol. 26, No. 6, December 2005, p. 1345-1373
♦ 9Group Composition, Home Range Size, and Diet of Three Sympatric Bamboo Lemur Species (Genus Hapalemur) in Ranomafana National Park, Madagascar, Chia L. Tan, International Journal of Primatology, Vol.20, No. 4, 1999, pp. 547-566
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0