Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations:

(≡ homotypic synonym, = heterotypic synonym, - autonym, I invalid designation)

• (=) Chiococca racemosa L.
• Basionym: Lonicera alba L.

Common names:

• David's milkberry  (Source: F Tex) - English
• David's-root  (Source: F LAnt) - English
• Davisroot  (Source: F LAnt) - English
• milkberry  (Source: F Florida) - English
• snowberry  (Source: F Florida) - English
• West Indian snowberry  (Source: F PuertoR) - English
• jasmin-bois  (Source: F LAnt) - French
• liane des sorciers  (Source: F LAnt) - French
• bejuco de berac  (Source: F PuertoR) - Spanish
• buenda  (Source: F LAnt) - Spanish
• canica  (Source: F Tex) - Spanish
• perlilla  (Source: F Tex) - Spanish
• ti branda  (Source: F LAnt) - Spanish

Distributional Range:

Native

Northern America

• SOUTHEASTERN U.S.A.: United States [Florida]
• SOUTH-CENTRAL U.S.A.: United States [Texas (s.)]
• NORTHERN MEXICO: Mexico [Nuevo León, San Luis Potosí, Sinaloa, Tamaulipas, Baja California Sur]
• SOUTHERN MEXICO: Mexico [Campeche, Chiapas, Colima, Guerrero, Hidalgo, Jalisco, México, Michoacán de Ocampo, Morelos, Nayarit, Oaxaca, Querétaro, Quintana Roo, Tabasco, Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave, Yucatán]

Southern America

• CARIBBEAN: Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Haiti, Jamaica, Martinique, Montserrat, St. Kitts and Nevis, [Saint Kitts] St. Lucia, St. Vincent and Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, United States [Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, U.S., Virgin Islands, U.S., Virgin Islands, U.S.]
• CENTRAL AMERICA: Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama
• NORTHERN SOUTH AMERICA: French Guiana, Guyana, Venezuela
• BRAZIL: Brazil
• WESTERN SOUTH AMERICA: Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru
• SOUTHERN SOUTH AMERICA: Argentina, Paraguay

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Cite as: USDA, Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System. 2024. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN-Taxonomy).
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. URL: http://gringlobal.iita.org/gringlobal/taxonomydetail.aspx?id=10209. Accessed 16 May 2024.