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Taxon: Scoparia dulcis L.

Genus: Scoparia
Family: Plantaginaceae tribe: Gratioleae. Also placed in: Gratiolaceae Scrophulariaceae Veronicaceae
Nomen number: 33402
Place of publication: Sp. pl. 1:116. 1753
Typification: View record from Linnaean Plant Name Typification Project of the Natural History Museum of London.
Name verified on: 01-Jun-1995 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 01-Jun-1995
No species priority site assigned.

NO ACCESSIONS IN NPGS UNDER THIS NAME.

Common names:

  • sweet broom   (Source: F LAnt ) – English
  • tapeiçava   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  • tapixaba   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  • tupixava   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  • vassourinha   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  • vassourinha-doce   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  • vassourinha-miúda   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  • escobilla   (Source: F Guat ) – Spanish

Economic importance:

  • Medicines: folklore   (fide K. Barringer pers. comm.; CRC MedHerbs ed2)
  • Weed: also potential seed contaminant   (fide Atlas WWeed)
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Distributional range:

      Native:
  • origin neotropics

      Naturalized:
  • throughout tropics & subtropics

References:

  • Aubréville, A. et al., eds. 1960–. Flore du Cambodge du Laos et du Viet-Nam. (F CambLVN)
  • Brako, L. & J. L. Zarucchi. 1993. Catalogue of the flowering plants and gymnosperms of Peru. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 45. (L Peru)
  • Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs. (CRC MedHerbs ed2)
  • Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
  • Harling, G. & B. Sparre, eds. 1973–. Flora of Ecuador. (F Ecuador)
  • Holm, L. et al. 1979. A geographical atlas of world weeds. (Atlas WWeed)
  • Howard, R. 1974–1989. Flora of the lesser Antilles. (F LAnt)
  • Smitinand, T. & K. Larsen, eds. 1970–. Flora of Thailand. (F Thailand)
  • Standley, P. C. & J. A. Steyermark. 1946–1976. Flora of Guatemala. (F Guat)
  • Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition). (F ChinaEng)
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Check other databases for Scoparia dulcis L.:

  • Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
  • 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
  • Google 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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URL: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?33402 (09 February 2010)

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