New records in vascular plants alien to Tenerife (Spain, Canary Islands) Author Verloove, Filip https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4144-2422 Meise Botanic Garden, Meise, Belgium filip.verloove@plantentuinmeise.be text Biodiversity Data Journal 2021 2021-04-26 9 62878 62878 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.9.e62878 journal article http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.9.e62878 1314-2828-9-e62878 D24EB63F1B0E5922BA6788EC76A26D81 Thunbergia alata Bojer ex Sims, 1825. Thunbergia alata Bot. Mag. 52: pl. 2591. 1825. Distribution TENERIFE: San Cristobal de La Laguna, Tejina, Barranco de Las Cuevas at Calle Jose Rodriguez Amador, slope of ravine, a dense stand, but only very locally, 09.01.2017, F. Verloove 12712 (BR). https://observation.org/observation/205286762/ Notes This East African species is commonly grown as an ornamental vine and easily escapes from cultivation. It is widely naturalised in warm-temperate and subtropical areas across the world to such an extent that it is often considered to be an environmental weed. It was recently reported for the first time in the Canary Islands from several localities in La Palma, where it is naturalised now ( Otto and Verloove 2018 ). In January 2017, it was observed for the first time in Tenerife, in a ravine in an urban environment in Tejina (Fig. 10 ).