Vitis mustangensis

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Family:VITACEAE
Species:Vitis mustangensis Buckley
Common Name:Mustang Grape
Habitat:**
Associated Ecological Communities:**
Growth Habit:Vine
Duration:Perennial
Category:Vascular
USDA Symbol:**
Plant Notes:Mustang Grape is a native perennial woody vine in the Grape family (Vitaceae). It is known from a single county in west-central Alabama. Most of its range lies west of our state (La., Miss., Okla., Tex.). Mustang Grape occurs along fence rows and forest edges in the Black Belt Region. It is a high climbing woody vine, climbing by branched tendrils. The young stems are green in color, lack red bands at the nodes, and are densely pubescent with shaggy white hairs. Older vines have reddish-brown bark exfoliating in long shreds. Leaves are alternate, petiolate, cordate to reniform in outline, usually unlobed but sometimes deeply 3-5 lobed, with entire to toothed margins. The lower side of the leaf is densely white pubescent. Flowers are produced in functionally unisexual cymes opposite the leaves. The flowers are small and greenish-yellow in color. The fruit is a globose black berry. The fruit is bitter and acidic when eaten raw, but has been used to produce jellies and wine. The fruit and leaves have also been used as a source of dye for wool. Mustang Grape is listed as an S1 species in Alabama (typically 5 or fewer occurrences, very few remaining individuals, or some factor of its biology making it especially vulnerable in the state), and globally as a G4 species (imperiled globally because of rarity (6 - 20 occurrences) or very vulnerable to extinction throughout its range because of other factors).—A. Diamond.
Taxonomic Notes:**
Status:Native, S1 (State Rank), G4 (Global Rank)
References:**
Specimen: View specimen details in the Alabama Herbarium Consortium Specimen Database

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Classification

FamilyVITACEAE - Grape family
Genus Vitis
Species Vitis mustangensis Buckley - Mustang Grape

Citation

Citation Vitis mustangensis Buckley, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 13(12): 451. 1862 [1861].
Basionym: **
Type: USA: TEXAS: Near Austin, Apr 1860, S.B. Buckley s.n. (lectotype: PH). Lectotypification by M.O. Moore, Sida 14: 358. 1991.

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Synonyms

No synonyms exist for this species.

Specimens and Distribution

This species has been reported in the following counties by the herbaria listed. An overview of the individual specimens are provided in the table that follows. Click on the accession number to view details; click on column headers to sort; choose a county or herbaria to filter the specimen data.

Counties included on distribution map: Wilcox

Counties represented by specimen data listed below:

Herbaria represented by specimen data listed below: ALNHS, AUA, SAMF, TROY, UNA, UWAL

Range of years during which specimens were collected: 1986 - 1986

Barcode / Accession No. County Coll. Date Collector &
Collection No.		 Herbarium &
Herbarium Name Used		 Image
UWAL0003066 Wilcox 12 May 2011 Keener, Brian R.
6484		 UWAL
Vitis mustangensis Buckl.
AUA_ACC_46394 Wilcox 16 Jun 1986 Moore, Michael O.
728		 AUA
Vitis Mustangensis Buckley
UNA00009586 Wilcox 16 Jun 1986 Moore, Michael O.
728		 UNA
Vitis mustangensis Buckl.
UWAL0005396 Wilcox 12 May 2011 Diamond, Alvin R.
22080		 UWAL
Vitis mustangensis Buckley
ALNHS00001495 Wilcox 11 Sep 2012 Barger, T. Wayne
SP#794		 ALNHS
Vitis mustangensis Buckl.
SAMF0001559 Wilcox 12 May 2011 Keener, Brian R.
6484		 SAMF
Vitis mustangensis Buckley
TROY000030049 Wilcox 16 Jun 1986 Moore, Michael O.
728		 TROY
Vitis mustangensis Buckley
TROY000032318 Wilcox 22 Apr 2009 Barger, T. Wayne
100		 TROY
Vitis mustangensis Buckley
TROY000032593 Wilcox 12 May 2011 Diamond, Alvin R.
22080		 TROY
Vitis mustangensis Buckley
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