Cascabela Raf.

Native to:

Argentina Northeast, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Nicaragua, Panamá, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Venezuela

Introduced into:

Angola, Assam, Bahamas, Bangladesh, Bermuda, Cambodia, Canary Is., Caroline Is., Cayman Is., Chad, China South-Central, China Southeast, Comoros, Cook Is., Cuba, Dominican Republic, East Aegean Is., Fiji, Gambia, Gulf of Guinea Is., Hainan, Haiti, Hawaii, India, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Marianas, Marquesas, Marshall Is., Nepal, Puerto Rico, Samoa, Senegal, Society Is., Taiwan, Trinidad-Tobago, Tuamotu, Vanuatu, Venezuelan Antilles, Windward Is.

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

• Alvarado-Cárdenas, L.O. & Ocheterena, H. (2007). A phylogenetic analysis of the Cascabelia-Thevetia species complex (Plumerieae, Apocynaceae) based on morphology. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 94: 298-323.

An alternative taxonomy had been proposed by the following authorities:

• Govaerts, R. (1999). World Checklist of Seed Plants 3(1, 2a & 2b): 1-1532. MIM, Deurne. [Cited as Thevetia.]
• Govaerts, R. (2003). World Checklist of Selected Plant Families Database in ACCESS: 1-216203. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. [Cited as Thevetia.]