Taxon: Commelina benghalensis L.
Genus: Commelina
Family: Commelinaceae subfamily: Commelinoideae tribe: Commelineae.
Nomen number: 311531
Place of publication: Sp. pl. 1:41. 1753, nom. cons.
Typification: View record from Linnaean Plant Name Typification Project
of the Natural History Museum of London.
Comments:Name verified on: 13-Jan-1992 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 29-May-2007
No species priority site assigned.
NO ACCESSIONS IN
NPGS UNDER THIS NAME.
SPECIES RESTRICTED BECAUSE FEDERAL AND STATE NOXIOUS
WEED
- A declared noxious weed by
USDA-APHIS.
- 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:
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FL*°, MA*, NC*.
| ªAquatic.
| *Terrestrial.
| °In seed.
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- Link to noxious weed information from

- Benghal dayflower (Source: USDA/APHIS
) – English
- dayflower (Source: Dict Rehm
) – English
- Indian dayflower (Source: Herbs Commerce ed2
) – English
- wandering-Jew (Source: Dict Rehm
) – English
- kanchura (Source: Dict Rehm
) – India
- trapoeraba (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
- More:
Native:
- AFRICA
Northeast Tropical Africa: Djibouti; Ethiopia; Somalia East Tropical Africa: Kenya; Tanzania; Uganda West-Central Tropical Africa: Cameroon; Congo; Rwanda West Tropical Africa: Benin; Cote D'Ivoire; Gambia; Ghana; Guinea; Nigeria; Sierra Leone; Togo South Tropical Africa: Malawi; Zambia Southern Africa: Botswana; Lesotho; Namibia; South Africa - Cape Province, Free State, KwaZulu-Natal, Transvaal; Swaziland
- ASIA-TEMPERATE
Arabian Peninsula: Arabia China: China [s.] Eastern Asia: Japan - Honshu, Kyushu, Shikoku
- ASIA-TROPICAL
Indian Subcontinent: Bhutan; India; Nepal; Pakistan; Sri Lanka Indo-China: Indochina Malesia: Indonesia; Philippines
- PACIFIC
Northwestern Pacific: Micronesia
Naturalized: - widely naturalized elsewhere
- PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) - on-line resource. (PROTABASE)
- Adams, C.
1972. Flowering plants of Jamaica. (F Jam)
- Babu, C. R.
1977. Herbaceous flora of Dehra Dun. (HF Dehra Dun)
- Backer, C. A. & R. C. Bakhuizen van den Brink, Jr.
1963–1968. Flora of Java. (F Java)
- Bhandari, M. M.
1978. Flora of the Indian desert. (F IndDes)
- Bond, P. & P. Goldblatt.
1984. Plants of the Cape Flora, J. S. African Bot. suppl. vol. 13. (L Cape)
- Brummitt, R. K.
1994. Report of the Committee for Spermatophyta: 41.
Taxon
43:275. [conservation proposal recommended].
- CIBA-GEIGY, Basel, Switzerland.
Documenta CIBA-GEIGY (Grass weeds 1. 1980, 2. 1981; Monocot weeds 3. 1982; Dicot weeds 1. 1988) (Weed CIBA)
- Compton, R. H.
1976. The flora of Swaziland. (F Swazi)
- Cufodontis, G.
1953–1972. Enumeratio plantarum aethiopiae: Spermatophyta. (F EthiopCuf)
- Encke, F. et al.
1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage. (Zander ed13)
- Faden, R. B.
1992. (1052) Proposal to conserve Commelina benghalensis (Commelinaceae) with a conserved type under Art. 69.3.
Taxon
41:341.
- Faden, R. B.
2000. Commelinaceae.
In: FNA Editorial Committee, Flora of North America. (F NAmer)
22:196. [introd.].
- Faden, R. B.
2001. The Commelinaceae of northeast Tropical Africa (Eritrea, Ethiopia, Djibouti, Somalia and Kenya): Diversity and phytogeography.
Biol. Skr.
54:230.
- Groth, D.
2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
- Hara, H. et al.
1978–1982. An enumeration of the flowering plants of Nepal. (L Nepal)
- Hara, H.
Flora of eastern Himalaya. v. 1:1966, v. 2:1971, v. 3:1975 (F EHimal)
- Holm, L. et al.
1979. A geographical atlas of world weeds. (Atlas WWeed)
- Keay, R. W. J. & F. N. Hepper.
1953–1972. Flora of west tropical Africa, ed. 2. (F WT Afr)
- Li, H. L. et al., eds.
1975–1979. Flora of Taiwan. (F Taiwan)
- Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium.
1976. Hortus third. (Hortus 3)
- Matthew, K. M.
1983. The flora of the Tamilnadu Carnatic. (F TamilC)
- McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker.
2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. (Herbs Commerce ed2)
- Merrill, E. D.
1922–1926. An enumeration of Philippine flowering plants. (F Philipp)
- Merxmüller, H., ed.
1966–1972. Prodromus einer flora von Sudwestafrika. (F Namib)
- Nasir, E. & S. I. Ali, eds.
1970–. Flora of [West] Pakistan. (F Pak)
- Ohwi, J.
1965. Flora of Japan (Engl. ed.). (F JapanOhwi)
- Plant Protection and Quarantine Office.
United States Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service. Federal noxious weed list. (USDA/APHIS)
- Rehm, S.
1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. (Dict Rehm)
- Ross, J.
1972. The flora of Natal. (F Natal)
- Saldanha, C. J. & D. H. Nicolson.
1976. Flora of Hassan district. (F Hassan)
- Schijff, H. P. van der.
1969. A check-list of the vascular plants of the Kruger national park. (L Kruger)
- Steward, A. N.
1958. Manual of vascular plants of the lower Yangtze valley. (F LowYangtze)
- Täckholm, V.
1974. Students' flora of Egypt, ed. 2. (SF Egypt)
- Walker, E.
1976. Flora of Okinawa and the southern Ryukyu Islands. (F Okin)
- Yunnan Inst. Bot. & Kunming Inst. Bot. Acad. Sci., eds.
1977–. Flora yunnanica. (F Yunnan)
- More:
Check other databases for Commelina benghalensis L.:
- Flora of North America: Collaborative Floristic Effort of North American Botanists
- SIBIS: South African National Biodiversity
Institute's (SANBI) Integrated Biodiversity System
- TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
- Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
- PROTABASE: Plant Resources of
Tropical Africa's (PROTA's) online resource
- 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:
- More:
- Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
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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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