Anredera vesicaria

Anredera vesicaria
Conservation status
Secure (NatureServe) [1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Order:	Caryophyllales
Family:	Basellaceae
Genus:	Anredera
Species:	A. vesicaria
Binomial name
Anredera vesicaria (Lam.) C.F.Gaertn.
Synonyms [2]
Basella vesicaria

Anredera vesicaria, common names Texas madeiravine or sacasile, and the related A. cordifolia are the only two species of the family Basellaceae known to occur in the wild in the contiguous United States. Both are sometimes cultivated for their showy and fragrant floral displays. Anredera cordifolia is widespread throughout the warmer regions of the world, including outside its natural range as an invasive species. Anredera vesicaria is native to Texas as well as to Mexico, Central America, West Indies, and Venezuela ^[3] and it is introduced in Florida. ^[4] In Texas and Florida the species grows in thickets and in disturbed areas such as roadsides and fence rows at elevations less than 500 m (1,640 ft). ^{[5] [6]}

Anredera vesicaria is an herbaceous, twining vine that can reach a height of 8 m (26 ft). It has small, cream-colored flowers less than 2 mm (0.079 in) across but borne in large racemes or panicles as much as 70 cm (28 in) long. The flowers produce an intense and pleasant scent. ^{[7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12]}

Taxonomy

When scientifically described by Jean-Baptiste Lamarck Anredera vesicaria was placed in the Basella genus with the name Basella vesicaria. It was moved to Anredera in 1807 by Karl Friedrich von Gaertner. Together with its genus it is classified in the Basellaceae family. In addition to its basionym, the species has a total of twelve synonyms. ^[2]

Table of Synonyms

Name	Year	Notes
Anredera cumingiiHassk.	1865	= het.
Anredera leptostachys(Moq.) Steenis	1957	= het.
Anredera scandensSm.	1818	= het.
Anredera spicataJ.F.Gmel.	1791	= het.
Anredera vesiculosaPoir.	1810	= het.
Atriplex spicataStokes	1812	= het.
Basella vesicariaLam.	1792	≡ hom.
Beriesa baselloidesSteud.	1840	= het.
Boussingaultia leptostachyaMoq.	1849	= het.
Clarisia volubilisAbat	1792	= het.
Gomphrena volubilisBlanco	1837	= het.
Siebera baselloidesC.Presl	1828	= het.
Notes: ≡ homotypic synonym; = heterotypic synonym

References

1. NatureServe (2 October 2026). "Anredera vesicaria". NatureServe Explorer. Arlington, Virginia. Retrieved 13 October 2026.
2. POWO (2026). "Anredera vesicaria (Lam.) C.F.Gaertn". Plants of the World Online . Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew . Retrieved 13 October 2026.
3. "Anredera vesicaria (Lam.) C.F.Gaertn". Plants of the World Online . Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
4. Wunderlin, R. P., & Hansen, B. F. (2003). Guide to the vascular plants of Florida. Gainesville: University Press of Florida.
5. Flora of North America Editorial Committee (ed.). "Anredera vesicaria". Flora of North America North of Mexico (FNA). New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press – via eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, Missouri and Harvard University Herbaria, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
6. Lamarck, Jean Baptiste Antoine Pierre de Monnet de. Encyclopédie Méthodique, Botanique 1(2): 382. 1785.
7. Bogle, A. L. (1969). "The genera of Portulacaceae and Basellaceae in the southeastern United States". Journal of the Arnold Arboretum. 50 (4): 566–598. doi:10.5962/p.337642.
8. Sperling, C. R. (1987). Systematics of the Basellaceae (Ph.D. thesis). Harvard University.
9. Wilson, P. 1932e. Basellaceae. In: N. L. Britton et al., eds. 1905+. North American Flora.... 47+ vols. New York. Vol. 21, pp. 337-339.
10. Gaertner, Carl (Karl) Friedrich von. Supplementum Carpologiae 176. 1807.
11. Stevens, W. D., C. Ulloa Ulloa, A. Pool & O. M. Montiel Jarquín. 2001. Flora de Nicaragua. Monographs in systematic botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 85: i–xlii,.
12. Gereau, R. E. 2001. Baselaceae. In Flora de Nicaragua. Monographs in systematic botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 85(1): 395–396.