Vitis mustangensis |
Vitis shuttleworthii |
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mustang grape |
Calloosa or leatherleaf or Florida grape, calloose grape |
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Habit | Plants high climbing, sparsely branched. | Plants moderately high climbing, sparsely branched. |
Branches | bark exfoliating in shreds; nodal diaphragms 1.5–3 mm thick; branchlets subterete to terete, densely to sparsely tomentose, growing tips not enveloped by unfolding leaves; tendrils along length of branchlets, persistent, branched, tendrils (or inflorescences) at only 2 consecutive nodes; nodes not red-banded. |
bark exfoliating in shreds; nodal diaphragms 2.5–6 mm thick, sometimes continuing halfway into internode; branchlets subterete to terete, densely to sparsely tomentose, growing tips not enveloped by unfolding leaves; tendrils along length of branchlets, persistent, branched, tendrils (or inflorescences) at only 2 consecutive nodes; nodes not red-banded. |
Leaves | stipules 1.5–4 mm; petiole 1/2–3/4 blade; blade cordate to nearly reniform, 6–14 cm, usually unlobed but sometimes 3-shouldered or deeply 3–5 lobed, apex acute to obtuse, abaxial surface not glaucous, densely white to rusty tomentose, concealed (except sometimes veins) by hairs, adaxial surface floccose to glabrate. |
stipules less than 1 mm; petiole 1/2–3/4 blade; blade broadly cordate to nearly reniform, 4–12 cm, usually unlobed, sometimes 3-shouldered, infrequently deeply 3–5 lobed, apex acute to obtuse, abaxial surface not glaucous, densely white to rusty tomentose, concealed (except sometimes veins) by hairs, adaxial surface floccose to glabrate. |
Inflorescences | 4–10 cm. |
4–10 cm. |
Flowers | functionally unisexual. |
functionally unisexual. |
Berries | usually black, sometimes dark red, slightly or not glaucous, globose, 12+ mm diam., skin separating from pulp; lenticels absent. |
dark red to purple-black, slightly or not glaucous, globose, 12+ mm diam., skin separating from pulp; lenticels absent. |
2n | = 38. |
= 38. |
Vitis mustangensis |
Vitis shuttleworthii |
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Phenology | Flowering Apr–early Jun; fruiting Aug–Sep. | Flowering Apr–early May; fruiting Jun–Aug. |
Habitat | Woodland edges, fencerows, thickets, lowland woods, disturbed areas. | Well-drained pinelands, thickets. |
Elevation | 0–700 m. (0–2300 ft.) | 0–100 m. (0–300 ft.) |
Distribution |
AL; LA; MS; OK; TX
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FL |
Discussion | In several early publications (for example, T. V. Munson 1909), Vitis mustangensis was known as V. candicans Engelmann ex A. Gray. M. O. Moore (1991) argued that the name V. candicans is ambiguous and not identifiable with any species based on the original description, making the more recent name V. mustangensis the valid and legitimate one for this species. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Vitis shuttleworthii is endemic to peninsular Florida and apparently is the closest relative of V. mustangensis. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 12, p. 10. | FNA vol. 12, p. 10. |
Parent taxa | Vitaceae > Vitis > subg. Vitis | Vitaceae > Vitis > subg. Vitis |
Sibling taxa | ||
Synonyms | V. candicans var. diversa, V. mustangensis var. diversa | V. coriacea, V. candicans var. coriacea |
Name authority | Buckley: Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 13: 451. (1862) | House: Amer. Midl. Naturalist 7: 129. (1921) |
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