Taxon: Cuphea carthagenensis (Jacq.) J. F. Macbr.

Common names:

• Colombian waxweed   (Source: Food Feed Crops US ) – English
  
• Columbian cuphea   (Source: F Hawaii ) – English
  
• tarweed   (Source: F Hawaii ) – English
  
• sete-sangrias   (Source: Herbs Commerce ) – Portuguese
  
• escobilla   (Source: F Bajio ) – Spanish
  

Economic importance:

• Fuels: potential as petroleum substitute/alcohol   (fide N. El Bassam 1998)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide Herbs Commerce ed2)
  

More:

View phytochemical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Southern Mexico: Mexico - Chiapas, Tabasco, Veracruz
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Caribbean: Barbados; Dominica; Guadeloupe; Martinique; Puerto Rico; St. Lucia
  Mesoamerica: Belize; Costa Rica; El Salvador; Guatemala; Honduras; Nicaragua; Panama
  Northern South America: French Guiana; Guyana; Suriname; Venezuela - Bolivar, Merida
  Brazil: Brazil
  Western South America: Bolivia - Beni; Colombia; Ecuador; Peru
  Southern South America: Argentina; Paraguay; Uruguay

• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia - New South Wales, Queensland
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina
  South-Central U.S.A.: United States - Texas [s.e.]
• PACIFIC
  North-Central Pacific: United States - Hawaii
  South-Central Pacific: French Polynesia - Society Islands
  Southwestern Pacific: Fiji; New Caledonia

References:

• Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. & M. T. Strong. 2012. Catalogue of seed plants of the West Indies. Smithsonian Contr. Bot. 98.
• American Herbal Products Association. 1992. Herbs of commerce.
• Boggan, J. et al. 1992. Checklist of the plants of the Guianas.
• Brako, L. & J. L. Zarucchi. 1993. Catalogue of the flowering plants and gymnosperms of Peru. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 45.
• Davidse, G. et al., eds. 1994. Flora mesoamericana.
• Duré, R. & J. Molero. 2000. Notas nomenclaturales, taxonómicas y corológicas sobre el género Cuphea (Lythraceae) en el Paraguay. Collect. Bot. (Barcelona) 25:228. ["carthagenense"].
• El Bassam, N. 1998. Energy plant species. 138–139.
• Forzza, R. C. et al., coord. Lista de espécies da flora do Brasil (on-line resource).
• Funk, V. et al. 2007. Checklist of the plants of the Guiana Shield (Venezuela: Amazonas, Bolivar, Delta Amacuro; Guyana, Surinam, French Guiana). Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 55:1-584.
• George, A. S., ed. 1980–. Flora of Australia.
• Gómez-Pompa, A. & V. Sosa, eds. 1978–. Flora de Veracruz.
• Godfrey, R. K. & J. W. Wooten. 1979–1981. Aquatic and wetland plants of southeastern United States, 2 vol.
• Hokche, O. et al. 2008. Nuevo catálogo de la flora vascular de Venezola.
• Howard, R. 1974–1989. Flora of the lesser Antilles.
• Institute of Pacific Islands Forestry. Pacific Island Ecosystems at Risk (PIER): plant threats to Pacific ecosystems (on-line resource).
• Instituto de Botánica Darwinion. 2008. Flora del Conosur. Catálogo de las plantas vasculares.
• Jorgensen, P. M., ed. Catálogo de las plantas vasculares de Bolivia (Catalogue of vascular plants of Bolivia) (on-line resource).
• Jørgensen, P. M. & S. León-Yánez, eds. 1999. Catalogue of the vascular plants of Ecuador. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 75.
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2.
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2.
• Reitz, R., ed. 1965–. Flora ilustrada catarinense.
• Rzedowski, J. & G. Rzedowski, eds. 1991–. Flora del Bajio y de regiones adyacentes.
• Smith, A. C. 1979–1991. Flora vitiensis nova.
• Standley, P. C. & J. A. Steyermark. 1946–1976. Flora of Guatemala.
• Wagner, W. L. et al. 1990. Manual of the flowering plants of Hawai'i.
• Weakley, A. S. 2011. Flora of the southern and middle Atlantic states.
• Woodson, R. E. & R. W. Schery, eds. 1943–1980. Flora of Panama.
• Wunderlin, R. & B. Hansen. Atlas of Florida vascular plants (on-line resource).

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Cuphea carthagenensis.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Cuphea carthagenensis.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Cuphea carthagenensis.

Synonyms:

• (=) Cuphea balsamona Cham. & Schltdl.
  (previously associated with 2 accessions)
• (≡) Lythrum carthagenense Jacq. (basionym)
  

Check other web resources for Cuphea carthagenensis (Jacq.) J. F. Macbr.:

• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• BONAP: North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program
• Flora del Conosur: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Conosur
• AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium
• ABRS: Australian Biological Resources Study Flora of Australia online
• 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.

Images:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.
• Embryo drawing: U.S. National Seed Herbarium drawing

More:

• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional 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.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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