Taxon: Cyanthillium cinereum (L.) H. Rob.

Common names:

• little ironweed   (Source: WorldWeeds 906. 1997 [as Vernonia cinerea]) – English
  
• ye xiang niu   (Source: F ChinaEng [as Vernonia cinerea]) – Transcribed Chinese
  

Economic importance:

• Harmful organism host: crop diseases   (fide WorldWeeds 906. 1997, as Vernonia cinerea)
  
• Harmful organism host: crop pests   (fide WorldWeeds 906. 1997, as Vernonia cinerea)
  
• Human food: vegetable   (fide Pl Res SEAs 12(1):496. 1999, as Vernonia cinerea)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide Pl Res SEAs 12(1):496. 1999, as Vernonia cinerea; Herbs Commerce ed2, as Vernonia cinerea)
  
• Weed   (fide Atlas WWeed, as Vernonia cinerea)
  

Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  Northeast Tropical Africa: Eritrea; Ethiopia; Somalia
  East Tropical Africa: Kenya; Tanzania; Uganda
  West-Central Tropical Africa: Burundi; Cameroon; Central African Republic; Gabon; Rwanda; Zaire
  West Tropical Africa: Benin; Cote D'Ivoire; Ghana; Guinea; Guinea-Bissau; Liberia; Mali; Nigeria; Senegal; Sierra Leone; Togo
  South Tropical Africa: Angola; Malawi; Mozambique; Zimbabwe
  Southern Africa: South Africa - KwaZulu-Natal, Limpopo; Swaziland
  Western Indian Ocean: Mauritius; Reunion
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Arabian Peninsula: Oman; Yemen
  China: China - Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, Sichuan, Yunnan, Zhejiang
  Eastern Asia: Japan - Kyushu, Ryukyu Islands; Taiwan
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: Bhutan; India; Sri Lanka
  Indo-China: Myanmar; Thailand; Vietnam
  Malesia: Indonesia; Malaysia; Papua New Guinea; Philippines
• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia - New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia [n.]

• AFRICA
  Western Indian Ocean: Seychelles
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Florida
• PACIFIC
  North-Central Pacific: United States - Hawaii
  Northwestern Pacific: Guam; Marshall Islands; Micronesia; Northern Mariana Islands
  South-Central Pacific: French Polynesia; Kiribati - Line Islands; Pitcairn
  Southwestern Pacific: American Samoa; Fiji; Kiribati - Gilbert Islands, Phoenix Islands; New Caledonia; Niue; Tonga; Wallis and Futuna Islands
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Caribbean: Anguilla; Antigua and Barbuda; Bahamas; Barbados; Cuba; Dominica; Grenada; Guadeloupe; Hispaniola; Martinique; Montserrat; Netherlands Antilles; Puerto Rico; St. Kitts and Nevis; St. Lucia; St. Vincent and Grenadines; Trinidad and Tobago; Virgin Islands (British); Virgin Islands (U.S.)
  Mesoamerica: Belize; Guatemala; Nicaragua; Panama
  Northern South America: French Guiana; Guyana; Suriname; Venezuela
  Brazil: Brazil
  Western South America: Ecuador - Galapagos Islands

References:

• Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. & M. T. Strong. 2012. Catalogue of seed plants of the West Indies. Smithsonian Contr. Bot. 98.
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• Forzza, R. C. et al., coord. Lista de espécies da flora do Brasil (on-line resource).
• Funk, V. et al. 2007. Checklist of the plants of the Guiana Shield (Venezuela: Amazonas, Bolivar, Delta Amacuro; Guyana, Surinam, French Guiana). Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 55:1-584.
• 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.
• Hokche, O. et al. 2008. Nuevo catálogo de la flora vascular de Venezola.
• Institute of Pacific Islands Forestry. Pacific Island Ecosystems at Risk (PIER): plant threats to Pacific ecosystems (on-line resource).
• Jørgensen, P. M. & S. León-Yánez, eds. 1999. Catalogue of the vascular plants of Ecuador. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 75.
• Robinson, H. 1999. Generic and subtribal classification of American Vernonieae. Smithsonian Contr. Bot. 89:65.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Cyanthillium cinereum.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Cyanthillium cinereum.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Cyanthillium cinereum.

Synonyms:

• (=) Blumea chinensis (L.) DC.
  
• (=) Conyza chinensis L.
  
• (≡) Conyza cinerea L. (basionym)
  
• (≡) Serratula cinerea (L.) Roxb.
  
• (≡) Vernonia cinerea (L.) Less.
  (previously associated with 8 accessions)

Check other web resources for Cyanthillium cinereum (L.) H. Rob.:

• 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
• 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
• 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.

Images:

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

More:

• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• 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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