Taxon: Vitex rotundifolia L. f.

Common names:

• beach vitex   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• round-leaf chastetree   (Source: Herbs Commerce ed2 ) – English
  
• dan ye man jing   (Source: Herbs Commerce ed2 ) – Transcribed Chinese
  

Economic importance:

• Medicines: folklore   (fide Herbs Commerce ed2)
  
• Weed   (fide web document)
  

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View ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

View ethnobotanical data from Moerman's Native American Ethnobotany Database

Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  Western Indian Ocean: Mauritius; Reunion
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  China: China - Anhui, Fujian, Guangdong, Hebei, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Liaoning, Shandong, Zhejiang
  Eastern Asia: Japan - Honshu, Kyushu, Ryukyu Islands, Shikoku; Taiwan
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: India [s.]; Sri Lanka
  North Indian Ocean: India - Andaman and Nicobar
  Indo-China: Cambodia; Myanmar; Thailand; Vietnam
  Malesia: Indonesia; Malaysia; Papua New Guinea; Philippines
• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia - Northern Territory [n.], Queensland [n.], Western Australia [n.]
• PACIFIC
  North-Central Pacific: United States - Hawaii

References:

• Dassanayake, M. D. & F. R. Fosberg, eds. 1980–. A revised handbook to the flora of Ceylon. [= V. trifolia var. simplicifolia Cham.].
• Hnatiuk, R. J. 1990. Census of Australian vascular plants. Australian Flora and Fauna Series No. 11.
• Iwatsuki, K. et al. 1993–. Flora of Japan.
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2.
• Natural Products Research Institute, Seoul National University. 1998. Medicinal plants in the Republic of Korea. WHO Regional Publications Western Pacific Series No. 21.
• USDA National Agricultural Library. National Invasive Species Information Center (on-line resource).
• Wagner, W. L. et al. 1990. Manual of the flowering plants of Hawai'i.
• Westbrooks, R. G. & J. Madsen. 2006. Federal regulatory weed risk assessment beach vitex (Vitex rotundifolia L.f.) assessment summary. 1–5. [re. weed classification].
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition).

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Vitex rotundifolia.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Vitex rotundifolia.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Vitex rotundifolia.

Check other web resources for Vitex rotundifolia L. f.:

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