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Internal ID UUID643fee9e285bc761997246
Scientific name Batis maritima
Authority L.
First published in Syst. Nat. ed. 10 , 2: 1380 (1759)

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Scientific name Authority First published in
Batis americana L. Mant. Pl. 2: 499 (1771)
Batis californica Torr. Smithsonian Contr. Knowl. 6: 8 (1854)

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Language Common/alternative name
English turtleweed
English saltwort
English beachwort
English maritime saltwort
Spanish vidrillos
Chinese 白楔

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  • Northern America
    • Mexico
      • Mexico Gulf
      • Mexico Northeast
      • Mexico Northwest
      • Mexico Southeast
      • Mexico Southwest
    • South-central U.S.A.
      • Texas
    • Southeastern U.S.A.
      • Alabama
      • Florida
      • Georgia
      • Louisiana
      • North Carolina
      • South Carolina
    • Southwestern U.S.A.
      • California
  • Southern America
    • Brazil
      • Brazil Northeast
      • Brazil Southeast
    • Caribbean
      • Aruba
      • Bahamas
      • Cayman Islands
      • Cuba
      • Dominican Republic
      • Haiti
      • Jamaica
      • Leeward Islands
      • Netherlands Antilles
      • Puerto Rico
      • Southwest Caribbean
      • Trinidad-Tobago
      • Turks-caicos Islands
      • Windward Islands
    • Central America
      • Belize
      • Honduras
      • Nicaragua
    • Northern South America
      • French Guiana
      • Guyana
      • Suriname
      • Venezuela
    • Western South America
      • Colombia
      • Ecuador
      • Galápagos
      • Peru

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Database ID/link to page
World Flora Online wfo-0000320463
Florida Plant Atlas 2771
Flora of Alabama 1135
USDA Plants BAMA5
Tropicos 3300001
INPN 629145
KEW urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:319368-2
The Plant List kew-20126
PaleoBotany 57833
Open Tree Of Life 532276
Observations.org 198917
NCBI Taxonomy 4436
Nature Serve 2.133234
IPNI 319368-2
iNaturalist 70040
GBIF 5414196
Freebase /m/0p3r02c
EPPO BAGMA
EOL 594848
Elurikkus 534790
Calflora (Californian flora) 1061
US Library of Congress sh85012381
USDA GRIN 401098
Wikipedia Batis_maritima

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The effect of intentional summer flooding for mosquito control on the nitrogen dynamics of impounded Avicennia germinans mangrove forests Laanbroek HJ, Rains MC, Verhoeven JT, Whigham DF Sci Rep 25-Jan-2024
PMCID:PMC10811325
doi:10.1038/s41598-024-52248-4
PMID:38272989
An Updated Review of Fossil Pollen Evidence for the Study of the Origin, Evolution and Diversification of Caribbean Mangroves Rull V Plants (Basel) 14-Nov-2023
PMCID:PMC10674848
doi:10.3390/plants12223852
PMID:38005749
Complementing model species with model clades Mabry ME, Abrahams RS, Al-Shehbaz IA, Baker WJ, Barak S, Barker MS, Barrett RL, Beric A, Bhattacharya S, Carey SB, Conant GC, Conran JG, Dassanayake M, Edger PP, Hall JC, Hao Y, Hendriks KP, Hibberd JM, King GJ, Kliebenstein DJ, Koch MA, Leitch IJ, Lens F, Lysak MA, McAlvay AC, McKibben MT, Mercati F, Moore RC, Mummenhoff K, Murphy DJ, Nikolov LA, Pisias M, Roalson EH, Schranz ME, Thomas SK, Yu Q, Yocca A, Pires JC, Harkess AE Plant Cell 12-Oct-2023
PMCID:PMC11062466
doi:10.1093/plcell/koad260
PMID:37824826
Methyl halide transferase-based gas reporters for quantification of filamentous bacteria in microdroplet emulsions Song X, Kong SJ, Seo S, Prabhakar RG, Shamoo Y Appl Environ Microbiol 28-Sep-2023
PMCID:PMC10537575
doi:10.1128/aem.00764-23
PMID:37699129
Minuca panema (Coelho, 1972): Resurrection of a Fiddler Crab Species from Brazil Closely Related to Minuca burgersi (Holthuis, 1967) (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura, Ocypodidae) Thurman CL, Shih HT, McNamara JC Zool Stud 13-Sep-2023
PMCID:PMC10641435
doi:10.6620/ZS.2023.62-45
PMID:37965297
Sustained mangrove reproduction despite major turnover in pollinator community composition at expanding range edge Nathan M, Gruner DS Ann Bot 30-Jun-2023
PMCID:PMC10550273
doi:10.1093/aob/mcad085
PMID:37389585
Assessment of aquatic food web and trophic niche as a measurement of recovery function in restored mangroves in the Southern Gulf of Mexico Soria-Barreto M, Pérez-Ceballos R, Zaldívar-Jiménez A, Gelabert Fernández R PeerJ 06-Jun-2023
PMCID:PMC10252823
doi:10.7717/peerj.15422
PMID:37304885
Settlement dynamics, subsistence economies and climate change during the late Holocene at Nunura Bay (Sechura Desert, Peru): A multiproxy approach Villa V, Bermeo N, Zazzo A, Lefèvre C, Béarez P, Correa D, Dufour E, Manin A, Dausse L, Gutiérrez B, Vásquez S, Christol A, Bahain JJ, Goepfert N PLoS One 09-Mar-2023
PMCID:PMC9997921
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0281545
PMID:36893164
Responses of Caribbean Mangroves to Quaternary Climatic, Eustatic, and Anthropogenic Drivers of Ecological Change: A Review Rull V Plants (Basel) 13-Dec-2022
PMCID:PMC9786987
doi:10.3390/plants11243502
PMID:36559614
Evaluation of Salicornia bigelovii Germplasm for Food Use in Egypt and the United Arab Emirates Based on Agronomic Traits and Nutritional Composition Lyra DA, Raman A, Hozayen A, Zaaboul R, Abou-Zaid FO, El-Naggar A, Mansoor S, Mahmoudi H, Ammar K Plants (Basel) 09-Oct-2022
PMCID:PMC9572425
doi:10.3390/plants11192653
PMID:36235519
Hindcast‐validated species distribution models reveal future vulnerabilities of mangroves and salt marsh species Hodel RG, Soltis DE, Soltis PS Ecol Evol 19-Sep-2022
PMCID:PMC9484403
doi:10.1002/ece3.9252
PMID:36188510
Aboveground competition influences density‐dependent effects of cordgrass on sediment biogeochemistry Walker JB, Rinehart S, Greenberg‐Pines G, White WK, DeSantiago R, Lipson DA, Long JD Ecol Evol 22-Mar-2022
PMCID:PMC8939245
doi:10.1002/ece3.8722
PMID:35356584
Substrate Profiling of Anion Methyltransferases for Promiscuous Synthesis of S‐Adenosylmethionine Analogs from Haloalkanes Schülke KH, Ospina F, Hörnschemeyer K, Gergel S, Hammer SC Chembiochem 05-Jan-2022
PMCID:PMC9303522
doi:10.1002/cbic.202100632
PMID:34927779
Complete Mitogenomes of Two Aragoa Species and Phylogeny of Plantagineae (Plantaginaceae, Lamiales) Using Mitochondrial Genes and the Nuclear Ribosomal RNA Repeat Mower JP, Hanley L, Wolff K, Pabón-Mora N, González F Plants (Basel) 05-Dec-2021
PMCID:PMC8707427
doi:10.3390/plants10122673
PMID:34961143
An annotated checklist of the amphibians and reptiles of North Padre Island, Texas, USA, with comparisons to adjacent barrier island and mainland herpetofauna Duran M Zookeys 29-Nov-2021
PMCID:PMC8648712
doi:10.3897/zookeys.1073.57241
PMID:34949952

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