Mansoa (plant)

{{Short description|Genus of vines}}

{{Automatic taxobox

|image = Mansoa hymenaea, flower of the Garlic Vine. (9268783629).jpg

|image_caption = Mansoa hymenaea, in Nicaragua

|taxon = Mansoa

|authority = DC.{{PLANTS|id=MANSO|taxon=Mansoa|accessdate=15 June 2012}}

|subdivision_ranks = Selected species

|subdivision =

• Mansoa alliacea
• Mansoa difficilis
• Mansoa hymenaea
• Mansoa verrucifera

|synonyms = Bayonia Dugand

Chodanthus Hassl

Daniella Corr. Méllo

Hanburyophyton Bureau

Onohaulcoa Lundell

Onohualcoa Lundell

Pachyptera DC. ex Meisn.

Pseudocalymma A. Samp. & Kuhlm.

}}

Mansoa is a genus of tropical, flowering vines in the family Bignoniaceae.{{cite web |title=Mansoa DC. {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:4132-1 |website=Plants of the World Online |access-date=23 October 2021 |language=en}}

Its native range is Mexico to Tropical America, and it is found in Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Leeward Is., Mexico, Nicaragua, Panamá, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela and Windward Is.

The genus name of Mansoa is in honour of Antônio Luiz Patrício da Silva Manso (1788–1848), a Brazilian botanist, physician, and politician.{{cite book | last=Burkhardt | first=Lotte | title=Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen – Erweiterte Edition |trans-title=Index of Eponymic Plant Names – Extended Edition | publisher=Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin | year=2018 | isbn=978-3-946292-26-5 | url=https://doi.org/10.3372/epolist2018 |format=pdf |language=German |location=Berlin | doi=10.3372/epolist2018 | s2cid=187926901 |access-date=1 January 2021}}

It was first described and published in Biblioth. Universelle Genève, sér.2, Vol.17 on page 128 in 1838.