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Internal ID UUID643fed82ae0af657380850
Scientific name Stachytarpheta mutabilis
Authority (Jacq.) Vahl
First published in Enum. Pl. Obs. 1: 208 (1804)

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Stachytarpheta mutabilis is a species of flowering plant in the verbena family native to Mexico, the Caribbean, and South America. It is cultivated as an ornamental plant and has become an introduced invasive species in Fiji, Hawaii, Queensland, and Singapore. It is a perennial herb or subshrub that grows 10 to 20 centimeters tall, with oppositely arranged leaves and narrow spikes of red and pink flowers. The flowers attract a variety of insects, and parts of the plant contain the iridoid glycoside ipolamiide, which inhibits insect predation on the plant.

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Scientific name Authority First published in
Stachytarpheta purpurea Greenm. Publ. Field Columb. Mus., Bot. Ser. 2: 258 (1907)
Stachytarpheta zuccagni Roem. & Schult. Syst. Veg., ed. 15 bis 1: 205 (1817)
Valerianoides mutabilis (Jacq.) Kuntze Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 510 (1891)
Verbena mutabilis Jacq. Collectanea 2: 334 (1789)
Zappania mutabilis (Jacq.) Lam. Tabl. Encycl. 1: 59 (1791)
Stachytarpheta cayennensis var. schiedeana Loes. Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 23: 119 (1896)
Stachytarpheta mutabilis var. violacea Moldenke Phytologia 1: 436 (1940)
Cymburus mutabilis Salisb. Parad. Lond. 1: t. 49 (1806)

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Language Common/alternative name
English changeable velvetberry
Indonesian ngokilo

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- Extinct
- Introduced
- Native
  • Africa
    • South Tropical Africa
      • Zimbabwe
    • Western Indian Ocean
      • Seychelles
  • Asia-tropical
    • Indian Subcontinent
      • India
      • West Himalaya
    • Malesia
      • Malaya
  • Northern America
    • Mexico
      • Mexico Central
      • Mexico Gulf
      • Mexico Northeast
      • Mexico Northwest
      • Mexico Southeast
      • Mexico Southwest
  • Pacific
    • North-central Pacific
      • Hawaii
    • Southwestern Pacific
      • Fiji
  • Southern America
    • Brazil
      • Brazil Northeast
      • Brazil Southeast
      • Brazil West-central
    • Caribbean
      • Cuba
      • Dominican Republic
      • Haiti
      • Jamaica
      • Puerto Rico
      • Trinidad-Tobago
    • Central America
      • Costa Rica
      • El Salvador
      • Honduras
      • Nicaragua
      • Panamá
    • Northern South America
      • French Guiana
      • Guyana
      • Suriname
      • Venezuela
    • Western South America
      • Colombia

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Database ID/link to page
World Flora Online wfo-0000314935
USDA Plants STMU2
Tropicos 33700526
INPN 447681
KEW urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:243385-2
The Plant List kew-195949
Open Tree Of Life 862755
Observations.org 186780
NCBI Taxonomy 925370
Nature Serve 2.154932
IPNI 243385-2
iNaturalist 169323
GBIF 2925462
Freebase /m/0l8lnkq
EPPO STCMU
EOL 579719
USDA GRIN 403753
Wikipedia Stachytarpheta_mutabilis

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A major locus controls a biologically active pheromone component in Heliconius melpomene Byers KJ, Darragh K, Musgrove J, Almeida DA, Garza SF, Warren IA, Rastas PM, Kučka M, Chan YF, Merrill RM, Schulz S, McMillan WO, Jiggins CD Evolution 20-Jan-2020
PMCID:PMC7027519
doi:10.1111/evo.13922
PMID:31913497
Antimicrobial Activity and Chemical Composition of Essential Oils from Verbenaceae Species Growing in South America Pérez Zamora CM, Torres CA, Nuñez MB Molecules 01-Mar-2018
PMCID:PMC6017629
doi:10.3390/molecules23030544
PMID:29494478
Insect antifeedant properties of an iridoid glycoside: ipolamiide Elizabeth Bernays, C. De Luca Springer Science and Business Media LLC 28-Jul-2005
doi:10.1007/BF01948365
Isolation of ipolamiide from Stachytarpheta indica Bamrung Tantisewie, Otto Sticher Elsevier BV 12-Feb-2003
doi:10.1016/S0031-9422(00)98672-2
6β-Hydroxyipolamiide, an iridoid glucoside from Stachytarpheta mutabilis Carlo De Luca, Marcella Guiso, Carmela Martino Elsevier BV 25-Jul-2002
doi:10.1016/0031-9422(83)80218-0

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