Taxon: Chlorophytum comosum (Thunb.) Jacques

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Common names:

• ribbonplant   (Source: Dict Gard ) – English
  
• spider-ivy   (Source: Dict Gard ) – English
  
• spiderplant   (Source: Econ Pl Aust ) – English
  
• ampellilja   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Dict Gard; Zander13)
  

Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  Northeast Tropical Africa: Ethiopia
  East Tropical Africa: Kenya; Tanzania; Uganda
  West-Central Tropical Africa: Cameroon; Equatorial Guinea; Zaire
  West Tropical Africa: Cote D'Ivoire; Liberia; Nigeria; Sierra Leone
  South Tropical Africa: Malawi; Mozambique; Zambia; Zimbabwe
  Southern Africa: South Africa - Eastern Cape, KwaZulu-Natal, Limpopo, Mpumalanga, Western Cape; Swaziland

• naturalized elsewhere

• also cultivated

References:

• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• Arnold, T. H. & B. C. De Wet, eds. 1993. Plants of southern Africa: names and distribution. Mem. Bot. Surv. S. Africa no. 62.
• Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage.
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
• Germishuizen, G. & N. L. Meyer, eds. 2003. Plants of southern Africa: an annotated checklist. Strelitzia 14.
• Hanelt, P., ed. 2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6.
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
• Kativu, S. 1994. Synopsis of Chlorophytum (Anthericaceae) in the Flora Zambesiaca area. Kirkia 15:57.
• Lazarides, M. & B. Hince. 1993. CSIRO Handbook of Economic Plants of Australia.
• Walters, S. M. et al., eds. 1986–. European garden flora.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Chlorophytum comosum.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Chlorophytum comosum.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Chlorophytum comosum.

Synonyms:

• (=) Chlorophytum capense auct.
  

Check other web resources for Chlorophytum comosum (Thunb.) Jacques:

• SIBIS: South African National Biodiversity Institute's (SANBI) Integrated Biodiversity System
• On-line Flora of Zimbabwe
• 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.

Check other web resources for images:

• PlantSystematics.org
• 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.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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