Taxon: Boerhavia diffusa L.

• conserved (nom. cons.) with a conserved type (Vienna ICBN Art. 14.9 & App. IV) through conservation of the genus Boerhavia
• review history of nomenclature proposal concerning this name from the Smithsonian Institution's database

Common names:

• red spiderling   (Source: F NAmer ) – English
  
• spreading hogweed   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – English
  
• huang xi xin   (Source: F ChinaEng ) – Transcribed Chinese
  
• ipecacuanha de Cayenne   (Source: F Guianas ) – French (French Guiana)
  
• punarnava   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – India
  
• agarra-pinto   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• amarra-pinto   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• celidônia   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• pega-pinto   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• hierba de cabro   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  

Economic importance:

• Harmful organism host: crop diseases   (for eggplant fide WorldWeeds 111. 1997)
  
• Animal food: fodder   (included in "Livol" which promotes growth in calves fide Pashudan 12(2):4. 1997)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide Herbs Commerce ed2; F ChinaEng)
  
• Weed: also potential seed contaminant   (fide Atlas WWeed)
  

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Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  Northern Africa: Egypt
  Northeast Tropical Africa: Somalia; Yemen - Socotra
  East Tropical Africa: Kenya; Tanzania; Uganda
  West-Central Tropical Africa: Rwanda
  West Tropical Africa: Ghana; Liberia; Nigeria; Senegal; Sierra Leone; Togo
  South Tropical Africa: Malawi; Mozambique; Zambia; Zimbabwe
  Southern Africa: Botswana; Namibia; South Africa - Cape Province, KwaZulu-Natal, Transvaal; Swaziland
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Arabian Peninsula: Oman; Saudi Arabia; United Arab Emirates; Yemen
  China: China - Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hainan, Sichuan, Yunnan
  Eastern Asia: Japan - Ryukyu Islands; Taiwan [s.]
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: India; Nepal
  Indo-China: Cambodia; Laos; Myanmar; Thailand; Vietnam
  Malesia: Indonesia; Malaysia; Philippines
• NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Florida, Georgia, South Carolina
  Mexico
• PACIFIC
  Southwestern Pacific: Fiji; New Caledonia
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Mesoamerica: Belize; Costa Rica; Guatemala; Nicaragua; Panama
  Caribbean: Anguilla; Bahamas; Cayman Islands; Cuba; Dominica; Dominican Republic; Grenada; Haiti; Jamaica; Montserrat; Netherlands Antilles - Saba; Puerto Rico; St. Lucia; St. Vincent and Grenadines; Virgin Islands (British); Virgin Islands (U.S.)
  Northern South America: French Guiana; Guyana; Suriname; Venezuela
  Western South America: Bolivia; Ecuador; Peru
  Southern South America: Argentina; Chile; Paraguay; Uruguay

• AFRICA
  Macaronesia: Cape Verde
• widely naturalized

• exact native range obscure

References:

• Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. et al. 1996. Flora of St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 78:1-581. (F St John)
• Adams, C. 1972. Flowering plants of Jamaica. (F Jam)
• Arechavaleta, M. et al., eds. 2005. Lista preliminar de especies silvestres de Cabo Verde: hongos, plantas y animales terrestres. (L Cabo Verde)
• Aubréville, A. et al., eds. 1960–. Flore du Cambodge du Laos et du Viet-Nam. (F CambLVN)
• Balick, M. J. et al. 2000. Checklist of the vascular plants of Belize, with common names and uses. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 85. (L Belize NY)
• Bosser, J. M. et al., eds. 1976–. Flores des Mascareignes. (F Mascar)
• Boulos, L. 1999–. Flora of Egypt. (F Egypt)
• Brako, L. & J. L. Zarucchi. 1993. Catalogue of the flowering plants and gymnosperms of Peru. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 45. (L Peru)
• Brummitt, R. K. 2000. Report of the Committee for Spermatophyta: 49. Taxon 49:276–277. [conservation proposal recommended].
• Burger, W. C., ed. 1971–. Flora costaricensis. (F CostaR)
• Correll, D. S. & H. B. Correll. 1982. Flora of the Bahama archipelago. (F Bahamas)
• El-Hadidi, M. N. & M. S. Abdallah. 1980–. Flora of Egypt. (F Egypt Cairo)
• Exell, A. W. et al., eds. 1960–. Flora zambesiaca. (F Zamb)
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America. (F NAmer)
• Gómez-Pompa, A. & V. Sosa, eds. 1978–. Flora de Veracruz. (F Veracruz)
• Görts-van Rijn, A. R. A., ed. 1986–. Flora of the Guianas. (F Guianas)
• Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
• Hansen, A. & P. Sunding. 1993. Flora of Macaronesia: checklist of vascular plants, ed. 4. Sommerfeltia vol. 17. (L Macar ed4)
• Holm, L. et al. 1979. A geographical atlas of world weeds. (Atlas WWeed)
• Howard, R. 1988. Flora of the lesser Antilles. (F LAnt) 4:177. [rejects lectotypification by Fosberg (1978)].
• Jørgensen, P. M. & S. León-Yánez, eds. 1999. Catalogue of the vascular plants of Ecuador. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 75. (L Ecuador)
• Keay, R. W. J. & F. N. Hepper. 1953–1972. Flora of west tropical Africa, ed. 2. (F WT Afr)
• León (J. S. Sauget) & Alain (E. E. Liogier). 1946–1962. Flora de Cuba.; suppl. 1969 (F CubaLeon)
• Liogier, A. H. 1981–. Flora of Hispaniola: Part 1; La Flora de la Española. Part II-. (F Hispan)
• Liogier, H. A. 1984–. Descriptive flora of Puerto Rico and adjacent islands. (F PuertoR)
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. (Herbs Commerce ed2)
• Miller, A. G. & T. A. Cope. 1996–. Flora of the Arabian Peninsula and Socotra. (F Arabia)
• Proctor, G. R. 1984. Flora of the Cayman Islands. Kew Bulletin Additional Series XI. (F Cayman)
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. (Dict Rehm)
• Smitinand, T. & K. Larsen, eds. 1970–. Flora of Thailand. (F Thailand)
• Standley, P. C. & J. A. Steyermark. 1946–1976. Flora of Guatemala. (F Guat)
• Steenis, C. G. G. J. van, ed. 1948–. Flora malesiana. (F Males)
• Stevens, W. D. et al., eds. 2001. Flora de Nicaragua. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 85(1-3). (F Nicaragua)
• Thulin, M., ed. 1993–. Flora of Somalia. (F Somalia)
• Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. 1952–. Flora of tropical East Africa. (F TE Afr)
• Whitehouse, C. 1998. (1375) Proposal to conserve the name Boerhavia diffusa (Nyctaginaceae) with a conserved type. Taxon 47:873–874.
• Wood, J. R. I. 1997. A handbook of the flora of Yemen. (F Yemen)
• Woodson, R. E. & R. W. Schery, eds. 1943–1980. Flora of Panama. (F Panama)
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition). (F ChinaEng)
• 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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Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Boerhavia diffusa. Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Check other databases for Boerhavia diffusa L.:

• Flora of North America: Collaborative Floristic Effort of North American Botanists
• Flora del Conosur: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Conosur
• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• SIBIS: South African National Biodiversity Institute's (SANBI) Integrated Biodiversity System
• On-line Flora of Zimbabwe
• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• 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.

Images:

• Disseminule drawings: U.S. National Seed Herbarium drawing
• Embryo drawing: U.S. National Seed Herbarium drawing

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