Taxon: Tithonia rotundifolia (Mill.) S. F. Blake

Common names:

• Mexican-sunflower   (Source: Dict Gard ) – English
  
• red-sunflower   (Source: Weeds SAfr 2001 ) – English
  
• roosionneblom   (Source: Weeds SAfr 2001 ) – Afrikaans
  
• mexikanische Sonnenblume   (Source: Zander Ency ) – German
  
• mexikanische Tithonie   (Source: Zander Ency ) – German
  
• margarida-mexicana   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• inkakrage   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

Economic importance:

• Bee plants: honey production   (fide F Guat)
  
• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Dict Gard; Hortus 3)
  
• Weed   (fide Weeds SAfr 2001)
  

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Distributional range:

• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Northern Mexico: Mexico - Coahuila, Durango, Zacatecas
  Southern Mexico: Mexico - Campeche, Chiapas, Colima, Guerrero, Hidalgo, Jalisco, Mexico, Morelos, Nayarit, Oaxaca, Quintana Roo, Veracruz, Yucatan
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Mesoamerica: Belize; Costa Rica; El Salvador; Guatemala; Honduras; Nicaragua; Panama

• AFRICA
  West-Central Tropical Africa: Rwanda; Zaire
  West Tropical Africa: Senegal
  South Tropical Africa: Zambia; Zimbabwe
  Southern Africa: Botswana; South Africa; Swaziland
• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia - New South Wales, Queensland
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Florida, Louisiana
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Caribbean: Cuba; Guadeloupe; Hispaniola; Martinique; Netherlands Antilles - Saba; Puerto Rico; St. Lucia; Trinidad and Tobago - Trinidad
  Northern South America: Venezuela
  Brazil: Brazil
  Southern South America: Argentina

• also cultivated

References:

• Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. & M. T. Strong. 2012. Catalogue of seed plants of the West Indies. Smithsonian Contr. Bot. 98.
• 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).
• Balick, M. J. et al. 2000. Checklist of the vascular plants of Belize, with common names and uses. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 85.
• Blake, S. F. 1921. Revision of the genus Tithonia. Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 20:426–427.
• Breedlove, D. E., ed. 1981–. Flora of Chiapas.
• Davis, P. H., ed. 1965–1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands.
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2008. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen.
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• Forzza, R. C. et al., coord. Lista de espécies da flora do Brasil (on-line resource).
• Germishuizen, G. & N. L. Meyer, eds. 2003. Plants of southern Africa: an annotated checklist. Strelitzia 14.
• Grierson, A. J. C. & D. J. Long. 1984–. Flora of Bhutan including a record of plants from Sikkim.
• Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
• Henderson, L. 2001. Alien weeds and invasive plants: a complete guide to declared weeds and invaders in South Africa. Plant Protection Research Institute, Handbook 12.
• Hnatiuk, R. J. 1990. Census of Australian vascular plants. Australian Flora and Fauna Series No. 11.
• Hokche, O. et al. 2008. Nuevo catálogo de la flora vascular de Venezola.
• Howard, R. 1974–1989. Flora of the lesser Antilles.
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
• Instituto de Botánica Darwinion. 2008. Flora del Conosur. Catálogo de las plantas vasculares.
• Jardin botanique national de Belgique. 1967–. Flore du Congo, du Rwanda et du Burundi (Flore d'Afrique centrale).
• La Duke, J. C. 1982. Revision of Tithonia. Rhodora 84:480–485.
• Lasser, T., ed. 1964–. Flora de Venezuela.
• Lazarides, M. & B. Hince. 1993. CSIRO Handbook of Economic Plants of Australia.
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
• Liogier, H. A. & L. F. Martorell. 1982. Flora of Puerto Rico and adjacent islands: a systematic synopsis.
• McVaugh, R. 1983–. Flora Novo-Galiciana.
• Rzedowski, J. & G. Rzedowski, eds. 1991–. Flora del Bajio y de regiones adyacentes.
• Smith, A. C. 1979–1991. Flora vitiensis nova.
• Standley, P. C. & J. A. Steyermark. 1946–1976. Flora of Guatemala.
• Stevens, W. D. et al., eds. 2001. Flora de Nicaragua. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 85(1-3).
• Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. 1952–. Flora of tropical East Africa. [mentions].
• Villaseñor, J. L. 1989. Manual para la identificacion de las Compositae de la Peninsula de Yucatan y Tabasco. Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden Techn. Rep. no. 4.
• Woodson, R. E. & R. W. Schery, eds. 1943–1980. Flora of Panama.

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Synonyms:

• (=) Helianthus speciosus Hook.
  (previously associated with 1 accession)
• (≡) Tagetes rotundifolia Mill. (basionym)
  
• (=) Tithonia speciosa (Hook.) Griseb.
  (previously associated with 1 accession)

Check other web resources for Tithonia rotundifolia (Mill.) S. F. Blake:

• Flora of North America: Collaborative Floristic Effort of North American Botanists
• 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 del Conosur: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Conosur
• AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium
• SIBIS: South African National Biodiversity Institute's (SANBI) Integrated Biodiversity System
• On-line Flora of Zimbabwe
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• 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:

• Flower: USDA/ARS Sunflower Research Unit

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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.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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