Marcgravia

Vegetative characteristics Marcgravia are vines or climbing shrubs. Generative characteristics The terminal, umbelliform, partly sterile inflorescence ==Taxonomy==

It was described by Carl Linnaeus in 1753 with Marcgravia umbellata as the type species. Etymology The genus name Marcgravia honours the German naturalist Species • Marcgravia acuminata • Marcgravia affinis • Marcgravia ampulligera • Marcgravia angustifolia • Marcgravia atropunctata • Marcgravia brachysepala • Marcgravia brittoniana • Marcgravia brownei • Marcgravia cacabifera • Marcgravia calcicola • Marcgravia caudata • Marcgravia comosa • Marcgravia cordachida • Marcgravia cordachidia • Marcgravia coriacea • Marcgravia corumbensis • Marcgravia crassicostata • Marcgravia crassiflora • Marcgravia crenata • Marcgravia cuneifolia • Marcgravia cuspidata • Marcgravia cuyuniensis • Marcgravia cyrtogastra • Marcgravia cyrtonota • Marcgravia dasyantha • Marcgravia domingensis • Marcgravia dressleri • Marcgravia dubia • Marcgravia eichleriana • Marcgravia elegans • Marcgravia evenia • Marcgravia flagellaris • Marcgravia fosbergiana • Marcgravia gentlei • Marcgravia goudotiana • Marcgravia gracilis • Marcgravia grandifolia • Marcgravia guatemalensis • Marcgravia hartii • Marcgravia helverseniana • Marcgravia leticiana • Marcgravia lineolata • Marcgravia longifolia • Marcgravia macrocalyptra • Marcgravia macrocarpa • Marcgravia macrophylla • Marcgravia magnibracteata • Marcgravia maguirei • Marcgravia membranacea • Marcgravia mexicana • Marcgravia micrantha • Marcgravia monogyna • Marcgravia myriostigma • Marcgravia nepenthoides • Marcgravia nervosa • Marcgravia neurophylla • Marcgravia nubicola • Marcgravia oblongifolia • Marcgravia obovata • Marcgravia octandra • Marcgravia oligandra • Marcgravia panamensis • Marcgravia paradoxa • Marcgravia parviflora • Marcgravia patellulifera • Marcgravia peduncularis • Marcgravia pedunculosa • Marcgravia pentandra • Marcgravia picta • Marcgravia pittieri • Marcgravia polyadenia • Marcgravia polyantha • Marcgravia punctifolia • Marcgravia purpurea • Marcgravia rectiflora • Marcgravia roonii • Marcgravia roraimae • Marcgravia roraimensis • Marcgravia rubra • Marcgravia salicifolia • Marcgravia schippii • Marcgravia serrae • Marcgravia sintenisii • Marcgravia sororopaniana • Marcgravia spiciflora • Marcgravia sprucei • Marcgravia stenonectaria • Marcgravia steyermarkii • Marcgravia stonei • Marcgravia strenua • Marcgravia subcaudata • Marcgravia subcordata • Marcgravia tobagensis • Marcgravia tonduzii • Marcgravia trianae • Marcgravia trinitatis • Marcgravia umbellata • Marcgravia urophylla • Marcgravia waferi • Marcgravia weberbaueri • Marcgravia williamsii • Marcgravia wittmackiana • Marcgravia wrightii • Marcgravia yukunarum • Marcgravia zonopunctata == Distribution ==

It is native to Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Central American Pacific Islands, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Leeward Islands, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panamá, Peru, Puerto Rico, Suriname, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela, and to the Windward Islands. ==Ecology==

The flowers are bat-pollinated. ==Use==

In Ecuador and Peru the fruits are used as food and the sap is used as a drink. == References ==