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Internal ID UUID643fed22566ad553505136
Scientific name Spermacoce exilis
Authority (L.O.Williams) C.D.Adams
First published in Fieldiana, Bot. , n.s., 33: 316 (1993)

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Scientific name Authority First published in
Spermacoce mauritiana Gideon Kew Bull. 37: 547 (1983)
Borreria exilis L.O.Williams Phytologia 28: 227 (1974)
Borreria repens DC. Prodr. 4: 542 (1830)
Spermacoce decandollei Deb & Ratna Dutta J. Econ. Taxon. Bot. 5: 1044 (1984)
Spermacoce repens (DC.) Fosberg & J.M.Powell Smithsonian Contr. Bot. 45: 30 (1980)
Borreria gracilis L.O.Williams Phytologia 26: 487 (1973)

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Language Common/alternative name
English pacific false buttonweed
Malayalam സ്പെർമക്കോസ് എക്സിലിസ്
Chinese 二萼丰花草
Chinese 二萼豊花草

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- Native
  • Africa
    • East Tropical Africa
      • Tanzania
      • Uganda
    • Northeast Tropical Africa
      • Ethiopia
    • South Tropical Africa
      • Malawi
      • Zambia
    • West Tropical Africa
      • Benin
      • Ghana
      • Guinea
      • Guinea-Bissau
      • Ivory Coast
      • Liberia
      • Nigeria
      • Senegal
      • Sierra Leone
    • West-central Tropical Africa
      • Burundi
      • Cabinda
      • Cameroon
      • Central African Republic
      • Congo
      • Gabon
      • Gulf Of Guinea Islands
      • Zaïre
    • Western Indian Ocean
      • Madagascar
      • Mauritius
  • Asia-temperate
    • China
      • China Southeast
      • Hainan
    • Eastern Asia
      • Taiwan
  • Asia-tropical
    • Indian Subcontinent
      • Assam
      • East Himalaya
      • India
      • Nepal
      • Sri Lanka
    • Indo-China
      • Andaman Islands
      • Laos
      • Myanmar
      • Nicobar Nicobar
      • Thailand
      • Vietnam
    • Malesia
      • Borneo
      • Christmas Island
      • Jawa
      • Lesser Sunda Islands
      • Malaya
      • Philippines
      • Sulawesi
    • Papuasia
      • New Guinea
  • Northern America
    • Mexico
      • Mexico Central
      • Mexico Gulf
      • Mexico Southeast
      • Mexico Southwest
  • Pacific
    • North-central Pacific
      • Hawaii
    • Northwestern Pacific
      • Caroline Islands
    • Southwestern Pacific
      • Fiji
  • Southern America
    • Brazil
      • Brazil North
      • Brazil Northeast
      • Brazil West-central
    • Caribbean
      • Cuba
      • Dominican Republic
      • Jamaica
      • Puerto Rico
      • Trinidad-Tobago
      • Windward Islands
    • Central America
      • Belize
      • Central American Pacific
      • Costa Rica
      • El Salvador
      • Guatemala
      • Honduras
      • Nicaragua
      • Panamá
    • Northern South America
      • French Guiana
      • Guyana
      • Suriname
      • Venezuela
    • Southern South America
      • Argentina Northeast
      • Argentina Northwest
      • Paraguay
    • Western South America
      • Bolivia
      • Colombia
      • Ecuador
      • Peru

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Database ID/link to page
World Flora Online wfo-0000312405
USDA Plants SPEX
Tropicos 27912235
INPN 769510
KEW urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:975271-1
The Plant List kew-193544
Open Tree Of Life 3872006
Observations.org 365780
NCBI Taxonomy 1914362
IPNI 975271-1
iNaturalist 291694
GBIF 2918060
EOL 1110709
Elurikkus 332826
USDA GRIN 447650

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From Flora to Pharmaceuticals: 100 new additions to angiosperms of Gafargaon subdistrict in Bangladesh and unraveling antidiabetic drug candidates targeting DPP4 through in silico approach Ahmed SS, Rahman MO PLoS One 29-Mar-2024
PMCID:PMC10980240
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0301348
PMID:38551991
A New Species of Aleiodes Wesmael (Braconidae, Rogadinae) with Potential for Biological Control of Spodoptera spp. (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae), and Notes on the Definition of the gastritor, circumscriptus, and Related Species-Groups Shimbori EM, Takahashi TA, Watanabe IM, Penteado-Dias AM, Foerster LA, Shaw SR, Parra JR Neotrop Entomol 19-Sep-2023
PMCID:PMC10695885
doi:10.1007/s13744-023-01076-8
PMID:37725282
Pest categorisation of the non‐EU phytoplasmas of tuber‐forming Solanum spp. Bragard C, Dehnen‐Schmutz K, Gonthier P, Jaques Miret JA, Justesen AF, MacLeod A, Magnusson CS, Milonas P, Navas‐Cortes JA, Parnell S, Potting R, Reignault PL, Thulke H, Van der Werf W, Civera AV, Yuen J, Zappalà L, Bosco D, Chiumenti M, Di Serio F, Galetto L, Marzachì C, Pautasso M, Jacques M EFSA J 23-Dec-2020
PMCID:PMC7757785
doi:10.2903/j.efsa.2020.6356
PMID:33376553
Borreria and Spermacoce species (Rubiaceae): A review of their ethnomedicinal properties, chemical constituents, and biological activities Conserva LM, Ferreira JC Júnior Pharmacogn Rev 01-Jan-2012
PMCID:PMC3358967
doi:10.4103/0973-7847.95866
PMID:22654404

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