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Taxon: Tribulus terrestris L.

Genus: Tribulus
Family: Zygophyllaceae subfamily: Tribuloideae. Also placed in: Tribulaceae
Nomen number: 100965
Place of publication: Sp. pl. 1:387. 1753
Typification: View record from Linnaean Plant Name Typification Project of the Natural History Museum of London.
Name verified on: 20-May-1992 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 23-Aug-1994
No species priority site assigned.

NO ACCESSIONS IN NPGS UNDER THIS NAME.

SPECIES RESTRICTED BECAUSE STATE NOXIOUS WEED
A declared aquatic or terrestrial noxious weed and/or noxious-weed seed in these U.S. states (see state noxious weed lists), with links to state information or web documents:
AZ*°, CA*°, CO*°, HI°, IA*°, ID*°, MI*°, NC*, NE°, NV*°, OR*, TX°, WA*°, WY°.
ªAquatic. *Terrestrial. °In seed.
Link to noxious weed information from Invaders Database System

Common names:

  • caltrop   (Source: Dict Gard ) – English
  • cat's-head   (Source: Noxweed Aust ) – English
  • common dubbletjie   (Source: Noxweed Aust ) – English
  • devil's-thorn   (Source: Kellerman et al.1988) – English
  • devil's-weed   (Source: Dict Gard ) – English
  • goathead   (Source: Noxweed Aust ) – English
  • puncturevine   (Source: State Noxweed Seed ) – English
  • small caltrops   (Source: BSBI ) – English
  • tribulus   (Source: Herbs Commerce ed2 ) – English
  • ji li   (Source: Herbs Commerce ed2 ) – Transcribed Chinese
  • tribule terrestre   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  • gokhru   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – India
  • abrojos   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  • espigón   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish

Economic importance:

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Distributional range:

      Native: (links to other web resources are provided for some distributions)
  • AFRICA
    Macaronesia: Spain - Canary Islands
    Northern Africa: Algeria; Egypt; Libya; Morocco; Tunisia
    Northeast Tropical Africa: Somalia
    East Tropical Africa: Kenya; Tanzania; Uganda
    West-Central Tropical Africa: Cameroon; Gabon; Zaire
    West Tropical Africa: Benin; Ghana; Mali; Niger; Nigeria; Senegal; Togo
    South Tropical Africa: Malawi; Mozambique; Zambia; Zimbabwe
    Southern Africa: Botswana; Lesotho; Namibia; South Africa; Swaziland
    Western Indian Ocean: Madagascar
  • ASIA-TEMPERATE
    Arabian Peninsula: Kuwait; Saudi Arabia
    Western Asia: Afghanistan; Cyprus; Egypt - Sinai; Iran; Iraq; Israel; Jordan; Lebanon; Syria; Turkey
    Caucasus: Armenia; Azerbaijan; Georgia; Russian Federation - Ciscaucasia
    Siberia: Russian Federation - Western Siberia [s.e.]
    Middle Asia: Kazakhstan; Kyrgyzstan; Tajikistan; Turkmenistan; Uzbekistan
    Mongolia: Mongolia
    China: China
    Eastern Asia: Japan
  • ASIA-TROPICAL
    Indian Subcontinent: India; Pakistan
  • AUSTRALASIA
    Australia: Australia [n.]
  • EUROPE
    Middle Europe: Austria; Hungary
    East Europe: Moldova; Russian Federation - European part [s.]; Ukraine [incl. Krym]
    Southeastern Europe: Albania; Bulgaria; Former Yugoslavia; Greece [incl. Crete]; Italy [incl. Sardinia, Sicily]; Romania
    Southwestern Europe: France [incl. Corsica]; Portugal; Spain [incl. Baleares]

      Naturalized:
  • widely naturalized

      Other:
  • exact native range obscure

References:

  • Ali, S. I. & S. M. H. Jafri, eds. 1976–. Flora of Libya. (F Libya)
  • Arnold, T. H. & B. C. De Wet, eds. 1993. Plants of southern Africa: names and distribution. Mem. Bot. Surv. S. Africa no. 62. (Pl SAfr)
  • Barker, R. M. 1998. Nuytsia 12:29.
  • Botanical Society of the British Isles. 2007. BSBI checklist. (BSBI)
  • Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs. (CRC MedHerbs ed2)
  • Exell, A. W. et al., eds. 1960–. Flora zambesiaca. (F Zamb)
  • Hedberg, I. & S. Edwards. 1989–. Flora of Ethiopia. (and Eritrea. 2000) (F Ethiop)
  • Holm, L. et al. 1979. A geographical atlas of world weeds. (Atlas WWeed)
  • Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. (Dict Gard) 4:497.
  • Izquierdo Z., I. et al., eds. 2004. Lista de especies silvestres de Canarias: hongos, plantas y animales terrestres. (L Canaries)
  • Keay, R. W. J. & F. N. Hepper. 1953–1972. Flora of west tropical Africa, ed. 2. (F WT Afr)
  • Kellerman, T. S. et al. 1988. Plant poisonings and mycotoxicoses of livestock in Southern Africa. (Kellerman et al.)
  • Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. 1934–1964. Flora SSSR. (F USSR)
  • Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. (Hortus 3)
  • McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. (Herbs Commerce ed2)
  • Merxmüller, H., ed. 1966–1972. Prodromus einer flora von Sudwestafrika. (F Namib)
  • Middleditch, B. S. & A. M. Amer. 1991. Kuwaiti plants: distribution, traditional medicine, phytochemistry,. economic value (Studies in Plant Science 2). (Kuwait Pl)
  • Nasir, E. & S. I. Ali, eds. 1970–. Flora of [West] Pakistan. (F Pak)
  • Parsons, W. T. & E. G. Cuthbertson. 1992. Noxious weeds of Australia. (Noxweed Aust)
  • Quézel, P. & S. Santa. 1962–1963. Nouvelle flore de l'Algerie. (F Alger)
  • Rechinger, K. H., ed. 1963–. Flora iranica. (F Iran)
  • Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. (Dict Rehm)
  • Robyns, W. et al., eds. 1948–63. Flore du Congo belge et du Ruanda-Urundi. (F CongoRB)
  • Seed Regulatory and Testing Branch, Agricultural Marketing Service, U.S.D.A. 1999. State noxious-weed seed requirements recognized in the administration of the Federal Seed Act. (State Noxweed Seed)
  • Thulin, M., ed. 1993–. Flora of Somalia. (F Somalia)
  • Townsend, C. C. & E. Guest. 1966–. Flora of Iraq. (F Iraq)
  • Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. 1952–. Flora of tropical East Africa. (F TE Afr)
  • Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea. (F Eur)
  • Woodson, R. E. & R. W. Schery, eds. 1943–1980. Flora of Panama. (F Panama)
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Check other databases for Tribulus terrestris L.:

  • Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
  • AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium Map Display Interface
  • SIBIS: South African National Biodiversity Institute's (SANBI) Integrated Biodiversity System
  • On-line Flora of Zimbabwe
  • TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
  • Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
  • ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
  • AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
  • Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.
    Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Images or nodulation data:

More:
  • Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
  • Google Images Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

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