Taxon: Urena lobata L.

A declared aquatic or terrestrial noxious weed and/or noxious-weed seed in these U.S. states (see state noxious weed lists), with links to state information or web documents:

HI*°.

ªAquatic.

*Terrestrial.

°In seed.

Link to noxious weed information from

See also subordinate taxa:

• Urena lobata var. chinensis (no accessions)

Common names:

• aramina-plant   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• bur-mallow   (Source: AH 505 ) – English
  
• Caesarweed   (Source: AH 505 ) – English
  
• Congo-jute   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – English
  
• pipiri   (Source: Pacif I Ecosyst Risk ) – English
  
• urena-weed   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• di tao hua   (Source: F ChinaEng ) – Transcribed Chinese
  
• cousin urène   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• Kongojute   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• paka   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – India
  
• guaxima   (Source: Michaelis) – Portuguese
  
• uaicima   (Source: Michaelis) – Portuguese
  
• aguaxima   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• carrapicho-de-lavadeira   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• carrapicho-redondo   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• embira   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• guaxima-rósea   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• malvaísco   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• malva-de-embira   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• malva-rósea   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• aramina   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• cadillo   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• malva blanca   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• aramina   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

Economic importance:

• Materials: essential oils   (source of patchouli oil fide Pl Res SEAs 19:153.)
  
• Materials: fiber   (fide Pl Book)
  
• Weed: potential seed contaminant   (fide Atlas WWeed)
  

More:

View ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  China: China - Anhui, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hainan, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Sichuan, Xizang, Yunnan, Zhejiang
  Eastern Asia: Japan; Taiwan
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: Bangladesh; Bhutan; India; Nepal; Pakistan
  Indo-China: Cambodia; Laos; Myanmar; Thailand; Vietnam
  Malesia: Brunei; Indonesia; New Guinea; Philippines
• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia - New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Caribbean: Bahamas; Cuba; Hispaniola; Jamaica; Puerto Rico; Virgin Islands (British); Virgin Islands (U.S.)
  Mesoamerica: Belize; Costa Rica; Nicaragua; Panama
  Northern South America: French Guiana; Guyana; Suriname; Venezuela
  Brazil: Brazil
  Western South America: Ecuador; Peru
  Southern South America: Paraguay

• AFRICA
  Northeast Tropical Africa: Chad; Ethiopia; Sudan
  East Tropical Africa: Tanzania; Uganda
  West-Central Tropical Africa: Burundi; Cameroon; Central African Republic; Congo; Rwanda; Zaire
  West Tropical Africa: Burkina Faso; Gambia; Ghana; Guinea; Liberia; Mali; Niger; Nigeria; Senegal; Sierra Leone; Togo
  South Tropical Africa: Angola; Malawi; Mozambique; Zambia; Zimbabwe
  Western Indian Ocean: Reunion
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Florida
• PACIFIC
  North-Central Pacific: United States - Hawaii
  Northwestern Pacific: Guam; Micronesia; Northern Mariana Islands; Palau
  South-Central Pacific: Cook Islands; French Polynesia - Gambier Islands, Marquesas Islands, Society Islands
  Southwestern Pacific: Fiji; New Caledonia; Samoa; Solomon Islands; Tonga
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Western South America: Ecuador - Galapagos Islands

• also cultivated

• exact native range obscure

References:

• Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. & M. T. Strong. Flora of the West Indies (on-line resource).
• Adams, C. 1972. Flowering plants of Jamaica.
• 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).
• Borssum Waalkes, J. v. 1966. Malesian Malvaceae revised. Blumea 14:138–145.
• Brako, L. & J. L. Zarucchi. 1993. Catalogue of the flowering plants and gymnosperms of Peru. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 45.
• Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques & South African National Biodiversity Institute. African flowering plants database (on-line resource).
• Davidse, G. et al., eds. 1994. Flora mesoamericana.
• Edições Melhoramentes. 1979. The new Michaelis illustrated dictionary (Novo Michaelis dicionário ilustrado), ed. 22/24. [re. Portuguese (Brazil) common names].
• Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage.
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (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.
• Godfrey, R. K. & J. W. Wooten. 1979–1981. Aquatic and wetland plants of southeastern United States, 2 vol.
• Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
• Hnatiuk, R. J. 1990. Census of Australian vascular plants. Australian Flora and Fauna Series No. 11.
• Holm, L. et al. 1979. A geographical atlas of world weeds.
• Howard, R. 1989. Flora of the lesser Antilles. 5:258.
• Humbert, J.-H., ed. 1936–. Flore de Madagascar et des Comores.
• Institute of Pacific Islands Forestry. Pacific Island Ecosystems at Risk (PIER): plant threats to Pacific ecosystems (on-line resource).
• Instituto de Botánica Darwinion. 2008. Flora del Conosur. Catálogo de las plantas vasculares.
• Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (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.
• Keay, R. W. J. & F. N. Hepper. 1953–1972. Flora of west tropical Africa, ed. 2.
• Mabberley, D. J. 1997. The plant-book: a portable dictionary of the vascular plants, ed. 2.
• Macbride, J. F. et al., eds. 1936–1971. Flora of Peru.; new ser. 1980-
• Nasir, E. & S. I. Ali, eds. 1970–. Flora of [West] Pakistan.
• Oyen, L. P. A. & Nguyen Xuan Dung, eds. 1999. Essential-oil plants. In: Faridah Hanum, I. & L. J. G. van der Maesen, eds., Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). 19:153. [mentions].
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
• Seed Regulatory and Testing Branch, Agricultural Marketing Service, U.S.D.A. 1999. State noxious-weed seed requirements recognized in the administration of the Federal Seed Act.
• Terrell, E. E. et al. 1986. Agric. Handb. no. 505.
• Woodson, R. E. & R. W. Schery, eds. 1943–1980. Flora of Panama.
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition).
• Wunderlin, R. P. 1998. Guide to the vascular plants of Florida.

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Urena lobata.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Urena lobata.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Urena lobata.

Check other web resources for Urena lobata L.:

• 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
• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium
• 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:

• Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

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.

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