Taxon: Crassocephalum crepidioides (Benth.) S. Moore

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Common names:

• ebolo   (Source: PROTABASE ) – English
  
• fireweed   (Source: PROTABASE ) – English
  
• red-flower ragleaf   (Source: PROTABASE ) – English
  
• thickhead   (Source: PROTABASE ) – English
  
• ye tong hao   (Source: F ChinaEng ) – Transcribed Chinese
  
• ebolo   (Source: PROTABASE ) – French
  
• ebolo   (Source: PROTABASE ) – Nigeria (Yoruba)
  
• eyukula   (Source: PROTABASE ) – Portuguese
  

Economic importance:

• Human food: vegetable   (fide PROTABASE; Use Pl WT Afr)
  
• Weed   (fide F Ceylon; Use Pl WT Afr)
  

Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  Northeast Tropical Africa: Ethiopia; Sudan
  East Tropical Africa: Kenya; Tanzania; Uganda
  West-Central Tropical Africa: Burundi; Cameroon; Equatorial Guinea; Gabon; Sao Tome and Principe; Zaire
  West Tropical Africa: Cote D'Ivoire; Ghana; Guinea; Guinea-Bissau; Liberia; Nigeria; Sierra Leone
  South Tropical Africa: Angola; Malawi; Mozambique; Zambia; Zimbabwe
  Southern Africa: South Africa - Eastern Cape, KwaZulu-Natal, Limpopo, Mpumalanga; Swaziland
  Western Indian Ocean: Madagascar
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Arabian Peninsula: Yemen

• AFRICA
  Western Indian Ocean: Mauritius
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Western Asia: Iran; Turkey [n.e.]
  China: China [s.]
  Eastern Asia: Japan; Taiwan
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: Bhutan; India; Nepal; Pakistan; Sri Lanka
  Indo-China: Cambodia; Laos; Myanmar; Thailand; Vietnam
  Malesia: Indonesia; Malaysia; Papua New Guinea; Philippines
• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia
• PACIFIC
  North-Central Pacific: United States - Hawaii
  Northwestern Pacific: Guam; Micronesia; Palau
  South-Central Pacific: Cook Islands; French Polynesia
  Southwestern Pacific: American Samoa; Fiji; New Caledonia; Niue; Solomon Islands; Tonga; Wallis and Futuna Islands
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Caribbean: Hispaniola; Puerto Rico

• AFRICA
  West Tropical Africa: Benin; Nigeria

References:

• PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) (on-line resource).
• Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. & M. T. Strong. 2012. Catalogue of seed plants of the West Indies. Smithsonian Contr. Bot. 98.
• Bosser, J. M. et al., eds. 1976–. Flores des Mascareignes.
• Burkill, H. M. 1985–2004. The useful plants of west tropical Africa.
• Chinese Academy of Sciences. 1959–. Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae.
• Dassanayake, M. D. & F. R. Fosberg, eds. 1980–. A revised handbook to the flora of Ceylon.
• Davis, P. H., ed. 1965–1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands. 10:162.
• Euro+Med Editorial Committee. Euro+Med Plantbase: the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity (on-line resource).
• Fosberg, F. R. & M.-H. Sachet. 1975–. Flora of Micronesia, Smithsonian Contr. Bot.
• Fosberg, F. R. et al. 1979–1982. Geographical checklist of the Micronesian Dicotyledonae/ Pteridophyta and Gymnospermae.
• 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.
• Hanelt, P., ed. 2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6.
• Hedberg, I. & S. Edwards. 1989–. Flora of Ethiopia. (and Eritrea. 2000)
• Hnatiuk, R. J. 1990. Census of Australian vascular plants. Australian Flora and Fauna Series No. 11.
• Institute of Pacific Islands Forestry. Pacific Island Ecosystems at Risk (PIER): plant threats to Pacific ecosystems (on-line resource).
• Iwatsuki, K. et al. 1993–. Flora of Japan.
• Jeffrey, C. 1986. The Senecioneae in East Tropical Africa. Notes on Compositae: IV. Kew Bull. 41:908.
• Keay, R. W. J. & F. N. Hepper. 1953–1972. Flora of west tropical Africa, ed. 2.
• Lazarides, M. & B. Hince. 1993. CSIRO Handbook of Economic Plants of Australia.
• Liogier, H. A. & L. F. Martorell. 2000. Flora of Puerto Rico and adjacent islands: a systematic synopsis, ed. 2.
• Missouri Botanical Garden. Flora of China Checklist (on-line resource).
• Sharma, B. D. et al., eds. 1993–. Flora of India.
• Smith, A. C. 1979–1991. Flora vitiensis nova.
• Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. 1952–. Flora of tropical East Africa.
• Vanijajiva, O. & J. W. Kadereit. 2009. Morphological and molecular evidence for interspecific hybridisation in the introduced African genus Crassocephalum (Asteraceae: Senecioneae) in Asia. Syst. Biodivers. 7:269–276.
• Wagner, W. L. et al. 1990. Manual of the flowering plants of Hawai'i.
• Wood, J. R. I. 1997. A handbook of the flora of Yemen.
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition).

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Crassocephalum crepidioides.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Crassocephalum crepidioides.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Crassocephalum crepidioides.

Check other web resources for Crassocephalum crepidioides (Benth.) S. Moore:

• Euro+Med Plantbase: Information Resource for Euro-Mediterranean Plant Diversity
• 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
• 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
• PROTABASE: Plant Resources of Tropical Africa's (PROTA's) online resource
• 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

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• 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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