Taxon: Pluchea indica (L.) Less.

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Common names:

• Indian fleabane   (Source: F Hawaii ) – English
  
• Indian pluchea   (Source: F Hawaii ) – English
  
• kuo bao ju   (Source: F ChinaEng ) – Transcribed Chinese
  
• hiiragi-giku   (Source: F Japan ) – Japanese Rōmaji
  

Economic importance:

• Weed   (fide Pacif I Ecosyst Risk)
  

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Distributional range:

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  China: China - Guangdong, Hainan
  Eastern Asia: Taiwan
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: Bangladesh; India - West Bengal
  North Indian Ocean: India - Andaman and Nicobar
  Indo-China: Cambodia; Laos; Myanmar; Thailand; Vietnam
  Malesia: Indonesia; Malaysia; Philippines; Singapore
• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia - Northern Territory [n.], Queensland [n. & c.]

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Eastern Asia: Japan - Ryukyu Islands
• PACIFIC
  North-Central Pacific: U.S. Outlying Islands - Johnston Atoll, Midway Islands; United States - Hawaii
  Northwestern Pacific: Guam; Marshall Islands; Northern Mariana Islands - Saipan; Palau
  South-Central Pacific: Kiribati - Line Islands; U.S. Outlying Islands - Palmyra Atoll
  Southwestern Pacific: Kiribati - Gilbert Islands, Phoenix Islands; New Caledonia

References:

• Backer, C. A. & R. C. Bakhuizen van den Brink, Jr. 1963–1968. Flora of Java.
• Chinese Academy of Sciences. 1959–. Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae.
• Editorial Committee of the Flora of Taiwan. 1993–. Flora of Taiwan, 2nd ed.
• Fosberg, F. R. & M.-H. Sachet. 1975–. Flora of Micronesia, Smithsonian Contr. Bot.
• 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.
• Keng, H. 1990–. The concise flora of Singapore.
• Kress, W. J. et al., eds. Revised checklist of the plants of Myanmar (Burma) (on-line resource).
• Merrill, E. D. 1922–1926. An enumeration of Philippine flowering plants.
• Missouri Botanical Garden. Flora of China Checklist (on-line resource).
• Sharma, B. D. et al., eds. 1993–. Flora of India.
• Turner, I. M. 1995. A catalogue of the vascular plants of Malaya. Gardens' Bull. Singapore vol. 47.
• Wagner, W. L. et al. 1990. Manual of the flowering plants of Hawai'i.
• Walker, E. 1976. Flora of Okinawa and the southern Ryukyu Islands.
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition).

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Pluchea indica.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Pluchea indica.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Pluchea indica.

Synonyms:

• (≡) Baccharis indica L. (basionym)
  

Check other web resources for Pluchea indica (L.) Less.:

• 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
• 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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