PUBLISHED IN: Fl. Austr. 2: 59. t. 199 (err. typ. disica)

TYPE:

ETYMOLOGY: dioica: dioecious, i.e. having the male reproductive organs borne on one plant and the female on another.

SYNONYMY: Bryonia cretica subsp. dioica (Jacquin) Tutin

INFRASPECIFIC TAXA:

VERNACULAR NAME: red bryony

OTHER VERNACULAR NAMES: white bryony, common bryony, snake bryony, English mandrake, women drake, wild nep, cow's-lick, tetter-berries, wild hop
Arabic: fashira, dalia beida
French: navet du diable

CULTIVARS:

DESCRIPTION: Plants dioecious; calyx about 1/2 of corolla; corolla white; stigmas with short hairs; ripe fruits are red berries.

CHROMOSOME NUMBER: 2n = 20.

DISTRIBUTION: Europe, northern Africa, recently iintroduced and naturalized in northwestern United States and adjacent Canada.

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MEDICINAL USE: Root

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LITERATURE: Hickman, J. C. 1993. The Jepson Manual: Higher Plants of California. University of California Press, Berkeley.
     Jeffrey, C. 1969. A review of the genus Bryonia L. (Cucurbitaceae). Kew Bulletin 23: 441–461.

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