Taxon: Acanthospermum australe (Loefl.) Kuntze

Common names:

• Paraguay-bur   (Source: Econ Pl Aust )
  
• Paraquay-starbur   (Source: Herbs Commerce ed2 )
  
• sheepbur   (Source: F SE US )
  
• spiny-bur   (Source: BSBI )
  

Economic importance:

• Medicines: folklore   (fide Herbs Commerce ed2)
  
• Weed: also potential seed contaminant   (common in several countries fide Atlas WWeed)
  

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Distributional range:

Native:

• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Caribbean: Grenada; Martinique; St. Vincent and Grenadines
  Northern South America: Venezuela
  Brazil: Brazil
  Western South America: Bolivia
  Southern South America: Argentina - Buenos Aires, Corrientes, Entre Rios, Misiones, Santa Fe; Paraguay; Uruguay

Other:

• widely naturalized

References:

• Botanical Society of the British Isles. 2007. BSBI checklist. (BSBI)
• Burkart, A. E., ed. 1969–. Flora ilustrada de Entre Rios. (F EntreR)
• Dubs, B. 1998. Prodromus florae matogrossensis. Botany of Mato Grosso, series B, no. 3. (L Mato Grosso)
• Holm, L. et al. 1979. A geographical atlas of world weeds. (Atlas WWeed)
• Howard, R. 1974–1989. Flora of the lesser Antilles. (F LAnt)
• Lazarides, M. & B. Hince. 1993. CSIRO Handbook of Economic Plants of Australia. (Econ Pl Aust)
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. (Herbs Commerce ed2)
• Radford, A. E. et al., eds. 1980–. Vascular flora of the southeastern United States. (F SE US)
• Steyermark, J. A. et al., eds. 1995–. Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana. (F VenGuay)
• Zuloaga, F. O. & O. Morrone, eds. 1996. Catálogo de las plantas vasculares de la República Argentina. I. Pteridophyta, Gymnospermae y Angiospermae (Monocotyledonae), II. Dicotyledonae. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 60, 74., 1999 (L Argent)

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Synonyms:

• (=) Acanthospermum brasilum Schrank
  
• (=) Acanthospermum xanthioides (Kunth) DC.
  
• (=) Centrospermum xanthioides Kunth
  
• (≡) Melampodium australe Loefl. (basionym)
  

Check other databases for Acanthospermum australe (Loefl.) Kuntze:

• Flora del Conosur: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Conosur
• 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.

Check other databases for images:

• PlantSystematics.org
• 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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