Asteraceae
Spilanthes

Spilanthes urens Jacq.

First published in Enum. Syst. Pl.: 28 (1760)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is W. Mexico to Tropical America. It is a perennial or subshrub and grows primarily in the seasonally dry tropical biome. It is used as a medicine.

Descriptions

George R. Proctor (2012). Flora of the Cayman Isands (Second Edition). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

Morphology General Habit
Herb with trailing, nearly glabrous stems, often rooting at the nodes, the flowering- branches ascending to 20 or 30 cm (often less); leaves sessile, very narrowly to narrowly elliptic, mostly 2–9 cm long, acutish at the apex, triplinerved, glabrate or puberulous beneath. Heads discoid, solitary on long terminal peduncles, 0.8–1.3 cm in diameter; phyllaries 4–5 mm long; florets numerous, white, 2 mm long
Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
Achenes obovate-oblong, 2.5 mm long, ribbed and thinly pubescent; pappus of 2 incurved, broad-based awns.
Distribution
Grand Cayman, Little Cayman.The West Indies (except the Bahamas) and continental tropical America.
Ecology
Frequent along moist roadsides, in seasonally flooded pastures and in damp sandy clearings near the sea.
[Cayman]

Extinction risk predictions for the world's flowering plants to support their conservation (2024). Bachman, S.P., Brown, M.J.M., Leão, T.C.C., Lughadha, E.N., Walker, B.E. https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/nph.19592

Conservation
Predicted extinction risk: not threatened. Confidence: confident
[AERP]

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

Distribution
Nativa en Colombia; Alt. 0 - 250 m.; Islas Caribeñas, Llanura del Caribe, Orinoquia.
Morphology General Habit
Hierba
Conservation
No Evaluada
[CPLC]

Bernal, R., G. Galeano, A. Rodríguez, H. Sarmiento y M. Gutiérrez. 2017. Nombres Comunes de las Plantas de Colombia. http://www.biovirtual.unal.edu.co/nombrescomunes/

Vernacular
dormidera
[UNAL]

Distribution
Biogeografic region: Caribbean, Orinoquia. Elevation range: 0–250 m a.s.l. Native to Colombia. Colombian departments: Antioquia, Atlántico, Bolívar, La Guajira, Magdalena, San Andrés y Providencia, Sucre, Vichada.
Habit
Herb.
Ecology
Habitat according IUCN Habitats Classification: forest and woodland, savanna, shrubland, wetlands (inland), artificial - terrestrial.
[UPFC]

Uses

Use Medicines
Medical uses.
[UPFC]

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

  • Flora of the Cayman Islands

    • Flora of the Cayman Islands
    • 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

  • 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