Asteraceae
Tagetes

Tagetes minuta L.

First published in Sp. Pl.: 887 (1753)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is Brazil to S. South America. It is an annual and grows primarily in the subtropical biome. It is has environmental uses, as a poison and a medicine and for food.

Distribution

Native to:

Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Bolivia, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Chile Central, Chile North, Paraguay, Uruguay

Introduced into:

Alabama, Albania, Algeria, Angola, Assam, Baleares, Belgium, Botswana, Bulgaria, California, Canary Is., Cape Provinces, Cape Verde, Colombia, Connecticut, Corse, Cyprus, East Aegean Is., East European Russia, East Himalaya, Ecuador, Egypt, Ethiopia, Florida, France, Free State, Georgia, Great Britain, Greece, Hawaii, Hungary, India, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Korea, Kriti, KwaZulu-Natal, Lebanon-Syria, Lesotho, Madeira, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mexico Northwest, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Nepal, New South Wales, Norfolk Is., North Carolina, Northern Provinces, Norway, Pakistan, Palestine, Pennsylvania, Queensland, Réunion, Saudi Arabia, Sicilia, South Australia, South Carolina, Spain, Sudan, Swaziland, Taiwan, Thailand, Transcaucasus, Turkey, Vanuatu, Virginia, West Himalaya, Western Australia, Yemen, Yugoslavia, Zambia, Zaïre, Zimbabwe

Synonyms

Heterotypic Synonyms

Classification

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Publications

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

  • Balkrishna, A. (2018). Flora of Morni Hills (Research & Possibilities): 1-581. Divya Yoga Mandir Trust.
  • Berry, M. (2021). Adventives and aliens news 23. BSBI News 147: 40-47.
  • Ghafoor, A. & al. (2021). Flora of Pakistan 224: 1-310. Department of Botany, University of Karachi, Karachi.
  • Knapp, W.M. & Naczi, R.F.C. (2021). Vascular plants of Maryland, USA. A comprehensive account of the state's botanical diversity. Smithsonian Contributions to Botany 113: 1-151.
  • Koyama, H., Bunwong, S., Pornpongrungrueng, P. & Hind, D.J.N. (2016). Flora of Thailand 13(2): 143-428. The Forest Herbarium, Royal Forest Department.
  • Mehboob-ur-Rahman (2012). Wild plants of Swat, Pakistan 1: 1-281. Department of botany, govt. Jehanzeb post graduate college.
  • Muer, T., Sauerbier, H. & Cabrara Calixto, F. (2020). Die Farn- und Blütenpflanzen Madeiras: 1-792. Verlag und Versandbuchhandlung Andreas Kleinsteuber.
  • Plunkett, G.M., Ranker, T.A., Sam, C. & Balick, M.J. (2022). Towards a checklist of the vascular flora of Vanuatu. Candollea 77: 105-118.
  • Roskov Y. & al. (eds.) (2018). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands.
  • Stace, C. (2019). New Flora of the British Isles ed. 4: 1-1266. C & M Floristics.

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:

  • (2020). https://www.jstor.org/stable/26958715. epublication.
  • Benedi, C. & al. (eds.) in Castroviejo, S. & al. (eds.) (2019). Flora Iberica 16(III): 1453-2353. Real Jardín Botánico, CSIC, Madrid.
  • Berry, M. (2021). Adventives and aliens news 23. BSBI News 147: 40-47.
  • Delipavlov, D. & Cheshmedzhiev, I. (eds.) (2011). Opredelitel na rasteniiata v Bulgariia: 1-590. Akad. Isd. Agrar. Univers. Plovdiv.
  • Koyama, H., Bunwong, S., Pornpongrungrueng, P. & Hind, D.J.N. (2016). Flora of Thailand 13(2): 143-428. The Forest Herbarium, Royal Forest Department.
  • Plunkett, G.M., Ranker, T.A., Sam, C. & Balick, M.J. (2022). Towards a checklist of the vascular flora of Vanuatu. Candollea 77: 105-118.

Flora of Somalia

  • Flora Somalia, (2000) Author: by H. Beentje [updated by M. Thulin 2008]

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
  • Cámara-Leret, R., & Dennehy, Z. (2019). Information gaps in indigenous and local knowledge for science-policy assessments. Nature Sustainability 2:736-741.
  • 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.
  • FPI (2021). Food Plants International. https://fms.cmsvr.com/fmi/webd/Food_Plants_World?homeurl=https://foodplantsinternational.com/plants/
  • GBIF.org (2021). GBIF species matching tool. https://www.gbif.org/tools/species-lookup
  • GRIN (2021). Germplasm Resources Information Network from the United States Department of Agriculture. https://www.ars-grin.gov/
  • Medicinal Plant Names Services (MPNS) v.10 (2021); http://mpns.kew.org/
  • PROTA (2021). Plants Resources of Tropical Africa. https://prota4u.org/database/
  • RBG, Kew (2021). Kew Economic Botany Collection. https://ecbot.science.kew.org/
  • Willis, K.J. (ed.) (2017). State of the World’s Plants 2017. Report. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

Flora of Tropical East Africa

  • Agnew, A.D.Q. & Agnew, S., Upland Kenya Wild Flowers, ed. 2: 218 (1994).
  • Blundell, Wild Fl. E. Afr.: pl. 233 (1987).
  • D.J.N. Hind in Fl. Masc. 109: 224 (1993).
  • E. Lind & A. Tallantire, Some Common Flowering Plants of Uganda p. 176 (1962).
  • G.V. Pope in Kirkia 10: 115, t. 4a (1975).
  • L., Sp. Pl.: 887 (1753).
  • Maquet in Fl. Rwanda 3: 642, fig. 199/3 (1985).

Other Data

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

Date Reference Identified As Barcode Type Status Has image?
Sep 1, 2001 Queiroz, L.P.; Correia, C.; Oliveira, R.P.; daSilva, M.M. [5483] Brazil K000053077 Yes
Sep 1, 2001 Queiroz, L.P.; Correia, C.; Oliveira, R.P.; daSilva, M.M. [5443] Brazil K000053087 Yes
Jul 1, 1996 Hind, D.J.N.; Giulietti, A.M.; Harley, R.M.; Smith, S. [PCD3339] Brazil K000053772 Yes
Jun 1, 1996 Hind, D.J.N.; Harley, R.M.; Bautista, H.P.; Smith, S.; Giulietti, A.M. [PCD3236] Brazil K000053773 Yes
Mar 1, 1993 Sant'Ana, S.C.; dosSantos, T.S. [224] Brazil K000053770 Yes
Jan 1, 1979 s.coll. [s.n.] K001103978 Yes
Jan 1, 1979 Sellow, F. [s.n.] K001103977 Yes
Jan 1, 1979 s.coll. [412] Brazil K000895329 Unknown Type Material Yes
Jan 1, 1979 Burchell, W.J. [4713] Brazil K000955759 Yes
Jan 1, 1979 Sucre, D.; Braga, P.I.S. [2643] Brazil K001103922 Yes
Jan 1, 1979 s.coll. [s.n.] K001103975 Yes
Jan 1, 1979 Gardner, G. [505] Brazil K000895330 Unknown Type Material Yes
Jan 1, 1979 Gardner, G. [505] Brazil K000895328 Unknown Type Material Yes
Ratter, J.A.; Argent, G.C.G.; Gibbs, P.E. [R4891] Brazil K001103928 Yes
Rambo, B. [41349] Brazil K001103926 Yes
Glaziou, A. [14000] Brazil K001103921 Yes
Dusén, P. [7963] Brazil K001103920 Yes
Rambo, B. [47122] Brazil K001103924 Yes
Harley, R.M.; Mayo, S.J.; Storr, R.M.; Santos, T.S.; Pinheiro, R.S. [19828] Brazil K000053769 Yes
Neill, D.; Asanza, M. [10746] Ecuador K001479949 Yes
Riedel [545] Brazil K001103923 Yes
Miller, S.E. [22] Kenya K001636503 No
Heath, A.; Heath, R. [2153] Botswana K001612912 Yes
Harley, R.M.; Bromley, G.L.; Carvalho, A.M.; SoaresNunes, J.M.; Hage, J.L.; Santos, E.B. [22785] Brazil K000053771 Yes
Hoehne, W. [s.n.] Brazil K001103927 Yes
Pereira, E. [5737] Brazil K001103981 Yes
Glaziou, A. [21597] Brazil K001103982 Yes
Patel, H. [7395] Mozambique K000613657 No
Irwin, H.S. [18004] Brazil K001103983 Yes
Souza, E.R. [236] Brazil K001031911 Yes
Lindeman, J.C.; Haas, J.H. [5229] Brazil K001103919 Yes
s.coll. [561] K001103962 Yes
Mexia, Y. [4769] Brazil K001103980 Yes
Chancellor, R.J. [179] Uganda K:SPC-08668.000 No
Heringer, E.P. [15811] Brazil K001103974 Yes
Souza, E.R. [236] Brazil K001103965 Yes
Wasum, R. [1074] Brazil K001103976 Yes
Richter, E. [s.n.] Brazil K001103925 Yes
Boog [s.n.] Brazil K001103979 Yes
Widgren [249] Brazil K001103984 Yes
Ash [117] Ethiopia K:SPC-10094.001 No
s.coll. [412] Brazil K001103963 Yes
Ecuador K001479950 Yes
Bolivia (Santa Cruz) K001479951 Yes
Bolivia (Tarija) K001479952 Yes
Bolivia (Tarija) K001479953 Yes
Bolivia (Tarija) K001479954 Yes
Peru K001479955 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

  • Flora of Somalia

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

  • Flora of Tropical East Africa

    • Flora of Tropical East Africa
    • 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

  • Plants and People Africa

    • Common Names from Plants and People Africa http://www.plantsandpeopleafrica.com/
    • © Plants and People Africa http://www.plantsandpeopleafrica.com 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