Taxon: Thunbergia laurifolia Lindl.

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Common names:

• babbler's-vine   (Source: Zander ed17 ) – English
  
• laurel clockvine   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• malayische Thunbergie   (Source: Zander ed17 ) – German
  

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide F Ceylon)
  
• Weed   (fide Divers Distrib 10:333-347. 2004)
  

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Distributional range:

• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indo-China: Myanmar
  Malesia: Malaysia [Malaya]

• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia - Northern Territory, Queensland
• PACIFIC
  North-Central Pacific: United States - Hawaii
  South-Central Pacific: French Polynesia

• also cultivated in tropics

References:

• Chinese Academy of Sciences. 1959–. Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae.
• Dassanayake, M. D. & F. R. Fosberg, eds. 1980–. A revised handbook to the flora of Ceylon.
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2002. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 17. Auflage.
• Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
• Meyer, J.-Y. & C. Lavergne. 2004. Beautés fatales: Acanthaceae species as invasive alien plants on tropical Indo-Pacific islands. Diversity & Distrib. 10:333–347.
• Smith, A. C. 1979–1991. Flora vitiensis nova.
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition). [mentions].

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Thunbergia laurifolia.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Thunbergia laurifolia.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Thunbergia laurifolia.

Check other web resources for Thunbergia laurifolia Lindl.:

• 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 of China: Online version from Harvard University
• AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium
• 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.

Check other web resources for images:

• PlantSystematics.org
• 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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