Gamochaeta

Gamochaeta americana (Mill.) Wedd.

First published in Chlor. Andina 1: 151 (1856)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is Tropical & Subtropical America to Falkland Islands. It is an annual or perennial and grows primarily in the seasonally dry tropical biome. It is used as a medicine.

Distribution

Native to:

Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Argentina South, Bolivia, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Chile Central, Chile South, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Falkland Is., Galápagos, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Nicaragua, Panamá, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Uruguay, Venezuela

Introduced into:

Alabama, Arkansas, Belgium, Bermuda, California, Cape Provinces, China South-Central, Corse, Florida, France, Georgia, India, Italy, Japan, Kermadec Is., KwaZulu-Natal, Louisiana, Mississippi, Netherlands, New South Wales, New Zealand North, New Zealand South, Norfolk Is., North Carolina, Northern Provinces, Ogasawara-shoto, Portugal, Queensland, South Australia, South Carolina, Spain, Sri Lanka, Swaziland, Taiwan, Texas, Tristan da Cunha, Victoria, Virginia, West Himalaya, Western Australia

Synonyms

Homotypic Synonyms

Heterotypic Synonyms

Classification

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Publications

Catálogo de Plantas y Líquenes de Colombia

  • Bernal, R., Gradstein, S.R. & Celis, M. (eds.). 2015. Catálogo de plantas y líquenes de Colombia. Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá. http://catalogoplantasdecolombia.unal.edu.co

Publications used to compile the distribution and map:

  • Benedi, C. & al. (eds.) in Castroviejo, S. & al. (eds.) (2019). Flora Iberica 16(III): 1453-2353. Real Jardín Botánico, CSIC, Madrid.
  • Pruski, J.F. (ed.) (2018). Flora Mesoamericana 5(2): 1-608. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México, D.F.

Useful Plants and Fungi of Colombia

  • Bernal, R., Gradstein, S.R., & Celis, M. (eds.). (2020). Catálogo de Plantas y Líquenes de Colombia. v1.1. Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Dataset/Checklist. https://doi.org/10.15472/7avdhn
  • Diazgranados et al. (2021). Catalogue of plants of Colombia. Useful Plants and Fungi of Colombia project. In prep.
  • Diazgranados, M., Allkin, B., Black N., Cámara-Leret, R., Canteiro C., Carretero J., Eastwood R., Hargreaves S., Hudson A., Milliken W., Nesbitt, M., Ondo, I., Patmore, K., Pironon, S., Turner, R., Ulian, T. (2020). World Checklist of Useful Plant Species. Produced by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Knowledge Network for Biocomplexity.
  • GBIF.org (2021). GBIF species matching tool. https://www.gbif.org/tools/species-lookup
  • Garcia, H. (1992). Flora Medicinal de Colombia. Botánica Médica. Segunda Edición. Tercer Mundo Editores. Tomo III.
  • Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt (2019). Lista de especies vedadas por la resolución 213 de 1977. 8256 especies. http://i2d.humboldt.org.co/ceiba/resource.do?r=le_plantaspriorizadas_2019
  • Medicinal Plant Names Services (MPNS) v.10 (2021); http://mpns.kew.org/

Other Data

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

Date Reference Identified As Barcode Type Status Has image?
Jan 1, 1994 Harley, R.M.; Hind, D.J.N. [27263] Brazil K000053204 Yes
Jan 1, 1994 Harley, R.M.; Hind, D.J.N. [27263] Brazil K000053205 Yes
Jan 1, 1994 Harley, R.M.; Hind, D.J.N. [26524] Brazil K000053202 Yes
Sep 1, 1993 Hind, D.J.N.; Queiroz, R.F. [H50960] Brazil K000053203 Yes
Sep 1, 1993 Harley, R.M.; Lughadha, E.N.; Queiroz, R.F. [H50635] Brazil K000053201 Yes
Solano, D. [2297] Costa Rica K002328159 Yes
Lombardi, J.A. [2836] Brazil K001107570 Yes
Townsend, C.C. [93/19] Costa Rica K002328160 Yes
Pruski, J.; Ortiz, R. [4149] Mexico K002328158 Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] K002328143 Yes
Ekman, E.L. [12989] Dominican Republic K002328144 Yes
Sintenis, P. [206] Puerto Rico K002328142 Yes
Harley, R.M.; Giulietti, A.M.; Stannard, B.L.; Hind, D.J.N.; Kameyama, C. [25114] Brazil K002328163 Yes
Santamaría, D.; Monro, A.K. [9999] Costa Rica Gamochaeta coarctata K001516841 Yes
Britton, N.L.; Cowell, J.F.; Brown, S. [5232] Puerto Rico Gamochaeta coarctata K002328150 Yes
Pruski, J. [3977] United States Gamochaeta coarctata K002328141 Yes

Sources

  • Angiosperm Extinction Risk Predictions v1

    • Angiosperm Threat Predictions
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

  • Catálogo de Plantas y Líquenes de Colombia

    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Herbarium Catalogue Specimens

    • Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Science Photographs

    • Copyright applied to individual images

  • Universidad Nacional de Colombia

    • ColPlantA database
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Useful Plants and Fungi of Colombia

    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • World Checklist of Vascular plants (WCVP)

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0