Phaseolus smilacifolius Pollard (1896: 233)

Debouck, D. G., 2021, Phaseolus Beans (Leguminosae: Phaseoleae): A Checklist And Notes On Their Taxonomy And Ecology, Journal of the Botanical Research Institute of Texas 15 (1), pp. 73-111 : 97

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.17348/jbrit.v15.i1.1052
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scientific name	Phaseolus smilacifolius Pollard (1896: 233)
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Phaseolus smilacifolius Pollard (1896: 233) View in CoL [clade B; sect. Paniculati Freytag]. TYPE: GV Nash 2505 (HOLOTYPE: US-252673 ; ISOTYPES: F-48642,G, GH-64080 , K, MICH-1104263 ,MSC, P, PH).

The fact that this species has been found in another county of Florida 101 years after the type collection lessens seriously the hypothesis of this species being a natural hybrid between P. polystachyus and P. sinuatus ( Isely 1990, p. 156) . Further, the planting of seeds with a progeny identical to the parents confirmed P.smilacifolius as a distinct species ( Abbott & Judd 2000, p. 497).With few collections from central Florida, it should be considered an endemic; from these few collections it is reported growing on hammock land in oak-juniper-palmetto association. According to Dohle and co-workers (2019), it seems that no accessions are currently kept in genebanks.

Specimens: U.S.A. Florida: JR Abbott 9557 (WIS), AS Hitchcock 483 (F-232856).

Kingdom	Plantae
Phylum	Tracheophyta
Class	Magnoliopsida
Order	Fabales
Family	Fabaceae
Genus	Phaseolus