Taxon: Caperonia palustris (L.) A. St.-Hil.

• Check PlantSearch database of Botanic Gardens Conservation International for possible non-NPGS germplasm.

Common names:

• male coq d'Inde   (Source: F LAnt ) – French
  
• ortie grosse   (Source: F LAnt ) – Spanish
  
• ortis-savane   (Source: F LAnt ) – Spanish
  
• sacatrapo   (Source: F Florida ) – Spanish
  

Distributional range:

• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Southern Mexico: Mexico - Campeche, Chiapas, Colima, Guerrero, Jalisco, Morelos, Oaxaca, Tabasco, Veracruz
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Caribbean: Cuba; Dominican Republic; Guadeloupe; Haiti; Martinique; Puerto Rico; St. Lucia; Trinidad and Tobago - Trinidad
  Mesoamerica: Belize; Costa Rica; El Salvador; Guatemala; Honduras; Nicaragua; Panama
  Northern South America: French Guiana; Guyana; Suriname; Venezuela
  Brazil: Brazil
  Western South America: Bolivia; Colombia; Ecuador; Peru
  Southern South America: Argentina; Paraguay; Uruguay

• NORTHERN AMERICA
  United States [s.e.]
• also naturalized elsewhere

References:

• Boggan, J. et al. 1997. Checklist of the plants of the Guianas, ed. 2.
• Brako, L. & J. L. Zarucchi. 1993. Catalogue of the flowering plants and gymnosperms of Peru. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 45.
• Govaerts, R. et al. 2000. World checklist and bibliography of Euphorbiaceae.
• Howard, R. 1974–1989. Flora of the lesser Antilles.
• Jørgensen, P. M. & S. León-Yánez, eds. 1999. Catalogue of the vascular plants of Ecuador. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 75.
• Missouri Botanical Garden. W³Tropicos (on-line resource).
• Standley, P. C. & J. A. Steyermark. 1946–1976. Flora of Guatemala.
• Stevens, W. D. et al., eds. 2001. Flora de Nicaragua. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 85(1-3).
• Wunderlin, R. P. 1998. Guide to the vascular plants of Florida.
• Zuloaga, F. O. & O. Morrone, eds. 1996. Catálogo de las plantas vasculares de la República Argentina. I. Pteridophyta, Gymnospermae y Angiospermae (Monocotyledonae), II. Dicotyledonae. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 60, 74., 1999

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Caperonia palustris.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Caperonia palustris.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Caperonia palustris.

Synonyms:

• (≡) Croton palustris L. (basionym)
  

Check other web resources for Caperonia palustris (L.) A. St.-Hil.:

• 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 del Conosur: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Conosur
• 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.

Images:

• Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

More:

• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional 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.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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