Taxon: Ludwigia octovalvis (Jacq.) P. H. Raven

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Common names:

• Mexican primrose-willow   (Source: Native Pl Database ) – English
  
• narrow-leaf water-primrose   (Source: Native Pl Database ) – English
  
• seedbox   (Source: Native Pl Database ) – English
  
• water-primrose   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• willow primrose   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  

Economic importance:

• Weed   (fide Atlas WWeed)
  

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Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  Macaronesia: Cape Verde
  Northeast Tropical Africa: Sudan
  East Tropical Africa: Kenya; Tanzania; Uganda
  West-Central Tropical Africa: Burundi; Cameroon; Sao Tome and Principe; Zaire
  West Tropical Africa: Gambia; Ghana; Liberia; Mali; Niger; Nigeria; Senegal; Sierra Leone; Togo
  South Tropical Africa: Angola; Malawi; Mozambique; Zambia; Zimbabwe
  Southern Africa: Botswana; Namibia; South Africa - Cape Province, KwaZulu-Natal, Transvaal; Swaziland
  Western Indian Ocean: Madagascar; Mauritius; Seychelles
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Arabian Peninsula: Yemen
  China: China - Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan, Jiangxi, Yunnan, Zhejiang
  Eastern Asia: Taiwan
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: Bhutan; India; Nepal; Sri Lanka
  Indo-China: Cambodia; Laos; Myanmar; Thailand; Vietnam
  Malesia: Indonesia; Malaysia; Papua New Guinea; Philippines
• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia - New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia [n.e.]
• NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina
  South-Central U.S.A.: United States - Texas [e.]
  Northern Mexico: Mexico - Durango, Sinaloa, Zacatecas
  Southern Mexico: Mexico - Campeche, Chiapas, Guanajuato, Guerrero, Hidalgo, Jalisco, Michoacan, Nayarit, Oaxaca, Puebla, Queretaro, Quintana Roo, Tabasco, Veracruz, Yucatan
• PACIFIC
  North-Central Pacific: United States - Hawaii
  Northwestern Pacific: Micronesia
  South-Central Pacific: French Polynesia
  Southwestern Pacific: Fiji; New Caledonia; Vanuatu
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Caribbean: Antigua and Barbuda; Bahamas; Barbados; Cuba; Dominica; Dominican Republic; Grenada; Guadeloupe; Haiti; Jamaica; Martinique; Montserrat; Puerto Rico; St. Lucia; St. Vincent and Grenadines; Trinidad and Tobago; Virgin Islands (British); Virgin Islands (U.S.)
  Mesoamerica: Belize; Costa Rica; El Salvador; Guatemala; Honduras; Nicaragua; Panama
  Northern South America: French Guiana; Guyana; Suriname; Venezuela
  Brazil: Brazil
  Western South America: Bolivia; Colombia; Ecuador; Peru
  Southern South America: Argentina - Chaco, Corrientes; Paraguay

References:

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• Adams, C. 1972. Flowering plants of Jamaica.
• Arechavaleta, M. et al., eds. 2005. Lista preliminar de especies silvestres de Cabo Verde: hongos, plantas y animales terrestres.
• Aubréville, A. et al., eds. 1960–. Flore du Cambodge du Laos et du Viet-Nam.
• Aubréville, A. et al., eds. 1963–. Flore du Cameroun.
• Brako, L. & J. L. Zarucchi. 1993. Catalogue of the flowering plants and gymnosperms of Peru. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 45.
• CONABIO. Comisión Nacional para el Conocimiento y Uso de la Biodiversidad en Mexico. Sistema Integrado de Información Taxonómica (SIIT) (on-line resource).
• Chinese Academy of Sciences. 1959–. Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae.
• Correll, D. S. & H. B. Correll. 1982. Flora of the Bahama archipelago.
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• Howard, R. 1974–1989. Flora of the lesser Antilles.
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• Robyns, W. et al., eds. 1948–63. Flore du Congo belge et du Ruanda-Urundi.
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• University of Texas at Austin, Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center. Native Plant Information Network database (on-line resource).
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• Wagner, W. L. et al. 1990. Manual of the flowering plants of Hawai'i.
• Wood, J. R. I. 1997. A handbook of the flora of Yemen.
• 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

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Ludwigia octovalvis.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Ludwigia octovalvis.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Ludwigia octovalvis.

Check other web resources for Ludwigia octovalvis (Jacq.) P. H. Raven:

• 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
• ABRS: Australian Biological Resources Study Flora of Australia online
• 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.

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.

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