Taxon: Commelina benghalensis L.

• conserved (nom. cons.) with a conserved type (Melbourne ICN Art. 14.9 & App. IV)
• review history of nomenclature proposal concerning this name from the Smithsonian Institution's database

• Check PlantSearch database of Botanic Gardens Conservation International for possible non-NPGS germplasm.

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:

AL*, FL*°, MA*, NC*.

ªAquatic.

*Terrestrial.

°In seed.

Link to noxious weed information from

Common names:

• Benghal dayflower   (Source: USDA/APHIS ) – English
  
• dayflower   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – English
  
• hairy wandering-Jew   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – 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)
  
• indisk himmelsblomma   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

Economic importance:

• Medicines: folklore   (fide Herbs Commerce ed2)
  
• Weed: potential seed contaminant   (fide Weed CIBA)
  

More:

View phytochemical or ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

• 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 - Eastern Cape, Free State, Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal, Limpopo, Mpumalanga, North West, Northern Cape, Western Cape; 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

• widely naturalized elsewhere

References:

• PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) (on-line resource).
• Adams, C. 1972. Flowering plants of Jamaica.
• 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).
• Babu, C. R. 1977. Herbaceous flora of Dehra Dun.
• Backer, C. A. & R. C. Bakhuizen van den Brink, Jr. 1963–1968. Flora of Java.
• Bhandari, M. M. 1978. Flora of the Indian desert.
• Bond, P. & P. Goldblatt. 1984. Plants of the Cape Flora, J. S. African Bot. suppl. vol. 13.
• 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)
• Compton, R. H. 1976. The flora of Swaziland.
• Cufodontis, G. 1953–1972. Enumeratio plantarum aethiopiae: Spermatophyta.
• Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage.
• 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. P. 22:196 in: FNA Editorial Committee, Flora of North America. [introd.].
• Faden, R. B. 2001. The Commelinaceae of northeast Tropical Africa (Eritrea, Ethiopia, Djibouti, Somalia and Kenya): Diversity and phytogeography. Biol. Skr. 54:230.
• Germishuizen, G. & N. L. Meyer, eds. 2003. Plants of southern Africa: an annotated checklist. Strelitzia 14.
• Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
• Hara, H. et al. 1978–1982. An enumeration of the flowering plants of Nepal.
• Hara, H. Flora of eastern Himalaya. v. 1:1966, v. 2:1971, v. 3:1975
• Holm, L. et al. 1979. A geographical atlas of world weeds.
• Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
• Keay, R. W. J. & F. N. Hepper. 1953–1972. Flora of west tropical Africa, ed. 2.
• Li, H. L. et al., eds. 1975–1979. Flora of Taiwan.
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
• Matthew, K. M. 1983. The flora of the Tamilnadu Carnatic.
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2.
• Merrill, E. D. 1922–1926. An enumeration of Philippine flowering plants.
• Merxmüller, H., ed. 1966–1972. Prodromus einer flora von Sudwestafrika.
• Nasir, E. & S. I. Ali, eds. 1970–. Flora of [West] Pakistan.
• Ohwi, J. 1965. Flora of Japan (Engl. ed.).
• Plant Protection and Quarantine Office. United States Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service. Federal noxious weed list (on-line resource).
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
• Ross, J. 1972. The flora of Natal.
• Saldanha, C. J. & D. H. Nicolson. 1976. Flora of Hassan district.
• Schijff, H. P. van der. 1969. A check-list of the vascular plants of the Kruger national park.
• Steward, A. N. 1958. Manual of vascular plants of the lower Yangtze valley.
• Täckholm, V. 1974. Students' flora of Egypt, ed. 2.
• Walker, E. 1976. Flora of Okinawa and the southern Ryukyu Islands.
• Yunnan Inst. Bot. & Kunming Inst. Bot. Acad. Sci., eds. 1977–. Flora yunnanica.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Commelina benghalensis.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Commelina benghalensis.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Commelina benghalensis.

Check other web resources 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.

Images:

• Disseminule drawings: U.S. National Seed Herbarium drawing
• Forestry Images: from www.forestryimages.org

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• 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.

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