Taxon: Glinus lotoides L.

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Common names:

• damascisa   (Source: F NAmer ) – English
  
• hairy carpetweed   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• xing su cao   (Source: F ChinaEng ) – Transcribed Chinese
  

Economic importance:

• Medicines: folklore   (fide Healing Pl India)
  

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Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  East Tropical Africa: Kenya; Tanzania; Uganda
  West-Central Tropical Africa: Burundi
  West Tropical Africa: Benin; Gambia; Guinea; Mali; Niger; Nigeria; Senegal; Sierra Leone
  South Tropical Africa: Malawi; Mozambique; Zambia; Zimbabwe
  Southern Africa: Botswana; Namibia; South Africa - Cape Province, Free State, KwaZulu-Natal, Transvaal; Swaziland
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Western Asia: Iran; Turkey
  Caucasus: Armenia; Azerbaijan
  China: China - Hainan, Yunnan
  Eastern Asia: Taiwan
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: India; Sri Lanka
  Malesia: Indonesia - Celebes, Java, Lesser Sunda Islands, Sumatra; Malaysia; Philippines
• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia - New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia
• EUROPE
  Southeastern Europe: Albania; Bulgaria; Greece; Italy; Romania
  Southwestern Europe: Portugal; Spain

• naturalized elsewhere

References:

• Arnold, T. H. & B. C. De Wet, eds. 1993. Plants of southern Africa: names and distribution. Mem. Bot. Surv. S. Africa no. 62.
• Chinese Academy of Sciences. 1959–. Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae.
• Correll, D. S. & M. C. Johnston. 1970. Manual of the vascular plants of Texas.
• Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, India. 1948–1976. The wealth of India: a dictionary of Indian raw materials and industrial products. Raw materials. Delhi.
• Davis, P. H., ed. 1965–1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands.
• Exell, A. W. et al., eds. 1960–. Flora zambesiaca.
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• Godfrey, R. K. & J. W. Wooten. 1979–1981. Aquatic and wetland plants of southeastern United States, 2 vol.
• Hickman, J. C., ed. 1993. The Jepson manual: higher plants of California.
• Hnatiuk, R. J. 1990. Census of Australian vascular plants. Australian Flora and Fauna Series No. 11.
• Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
• Keay, R. W. J. & F. N. Hepper. 1953–1972. Flora of west tropical Africa, ed. 2.
• Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. 1934–1964. Flora SSSR.
• Missouri Botanical Garden. Flora of China Checklist (on-line resource).
• Steenis, C. G. G. J. van, ed. 1948–. Flora malesiana.
• Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. 1952–. Flora of tropical East Africa.
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1993. Flora europaea, second edition.
• Verma, D. M. et al. (vol. 1); V. Mudgal et al. (vol. 2). 1993–. Flora Madhya Pradesh.
• 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 Glinus lotoides.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Glinus lotoides.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Glinus lotoides.

Check other web resources for Glinus lotoides L.:

• Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
• Flora of North America: Collaborative Floristic Effort of North American Botanists
• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• 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.

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.

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