Taxon: Callisia repens (Jacq.) L.

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Economic importance:

• Environmental: erosion control   (fide V. C. Baligar, pers. comm.)
  
• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Dict Gard)
  
• Environmental: soil improver   (fide V. C. Baligar, pers. comm.)
  

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Distributional range:

• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Northern Mexico: Mexico - Nuevo Leon, San Luis Potosi, Sinaloa, Tamaulipas
  Southern Mexico: Mexico - Chiapas, Hidalgo, Jalisco, Morelos, Puebla, Quintana Roo, Tabasco, Veracruz
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Caribbean: Antigua and Barbuda; Barbados; Cayman Islands; Cuba; Dominica; Grenada; Guadeloupe; Jamaica; Martinique; Montserrat; Netherlands Antilles; Puerto Rico; St. Kitts and Nevis; St. Lucia; St. Vincent and Grenadines; Virgin Islands (British) - Tortola; Virgin Islands (U.S.)
  Mesoamerica: Costa Rica; El Salvador; Honduras; Nicaragua; Panama
  Northern South America: French Guiana; Venezuela
  Western South America: Colombia; Ecuador; Peru
  Southern South America: Argentina

• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Florida, Louisiana
  South-Central U.S.A.: United States - Texas

• also cultivated

References:

• Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. & M. T. Strong. 2005. Monocotyledons and gymnosperms of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 52:156–157.
• Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. et al. 1996. Flora of St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 78:1-581.
• Baligar, V. C. 1996. pers. comm. [re. erosion control and soil improver].
• Boggan, J. et al. 1997. Checklist of the plants of the Guianas, ed. 2. [lists as C. repens L.].
• Brako, L. & J. L. Zarucchi. 1993. Catalogue of the flowering plants and gymnosperms of Peru. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 45.
• Davidse, G. et al., eds. 1994. Flora mesoamericana.
• Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage.
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• Howard, R. 1974–1989. Flora of the lesser Antilles.
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
• Jørgensen, P. M. & S. León-Yánez, eds. 1999. Catalogue of the vascular plants of Ecuador. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 75.
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
• McVaugh, R. 1983–. Flora Novo-Galiciana.
• Steyermark, J. A. et al., eds. 1995–. Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana. [lists as C. repens L.].

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Callisia repens.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Callisia repens.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Callisia repens.

Synonyms:

• (≡) Hapalanthus repens Jacq. (basionym)
  

Check other web resources for Callisia repens (Jacq.) L.:

• 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
• 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.

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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