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Taxon: Xanthium spinosum L.

Genus: Xanthium
Family: Asteraceae (alt. Compositae).
Nomen number: 42071
Place of publication: Sp. pl. 2:987. 1753
Typification: View record from Linnaean Plant Name Typification Project of the Natural History Museum of London.
Name verified on: 20-May-1992 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 23-Aug-1994
No species priority site assigned.

NO ACCESSIONS IN NPGS UNDER THIS NAME.

SPECIES RESTRICTED BECAUSE STATE NOXIOUS WEED
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:
OR*, WA*.
ªAquatic. *Terrestrial. °In seed.
Link to noxious weed information from Invaders Database System

Common names:

  • Bathurst-bur   (Source: Noxweed Aust ) – English
  • prickly burweed   (Source: Noxweed Aust ) – English
  • spiny cocklebur   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – English
  • boetebos   (Source: Weeds SAfr 2001 ) – Afrikaans
  • lampourde épineuse   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  • dornige Spitzklette   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  • carrapicho-de-Santa-Helena   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  • cachurrera menor   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  • pegotes   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish

Economic importance:

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Distributional range:

      Naturalized:
  • AUSTRALASIA
    Australia: Australia
    New Zealand: New Zealand
  • worldwide weed, naturalized elsewhere in s. South America & in Europe, Africa, temperate Asia, United States, & the Azores, origin South America

References:

  • Canad. J. Bot. 37:204.
  • Cronquist, A. et al. 1972–. Intermountain flora. (Intermt F)
  • Davis, P. H., ed. 1965–1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands. (F Turk)
  • Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage. (Zander ed13)
  • Everest, S. L. 1981. Poisonous plants of Australia. (Everist) [poisonous].
  • Gleason, H. A. & A. Cronquist. 1963. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. (Glea Cron)
  • Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
  • Henderson, L. 2001. Alien weeds and invasive plants: a complete guide to declared weeds and invaders in South Africa. Plant Protection Research Institute, Handbook 12. (Weeds SAfr 2001)
  • Henderson, M. et al. 1987. Declared weeds and alien invader plants in South Africa. Botanical Research Institute, bulletin 413. (Weeds SAfr)
  • Holm, L. et al. 1979. A geographical atlas of world weeds. (Atlas WWeed)
  • Kellerman, T. S. et al. 1988. Plant poisonings and mycotoxicoses of livestock in Southern Africa. (Kellerman et al.) [poisonous].
  • Kingsbury, J. M. 1964. Poisonous plants of the United States and Canada. (Kingsbury) [poisonous].
  • Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. 1934–1964. Flora SSSR. (F USSR)
  • McVaugh, R. 1983–. Flora Novo-Galiciana. (F NGalicia)
  • Pammel, L. H. 1911. Manual of poisonous plants. (Pammel) [poisonous].
  • Parsons, W. T. & E. G. Cuthbertson. 1992. Noxious weeds of Australia. (Noxweed Aust) [mentions].
  • Radford, A. E. et al., eds. 1980–. Vascular flora of the southeastern United States. (F SE US)
  • Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. (Dict Rehm)
  • Scoggan, H. J. 1978–1979. The flora of Canada, 4 vol. (F Canada)
  • Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea. (F Eur)
  • Weber, E. 2003. Invasive plant species of the world: a reference guide to environmental weeds. (Invasive Pl Spec)
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Check other databases for Xanthium spinosum L.:

  • Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
  • AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium
  • PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
  • 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:

  • Fruits: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
More:
  • Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
  • Google 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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