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Internal ID UUID6440148ac2db7056323092
Scientific name Cuphea parsonsia
Authority R.Br. ex Steud.
First published in Nomencl. Bot. 1: 245 (1821)

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Scientific name Authority First published in
Lythrum hispanicum Mill. Gard. Dict. ed. 8 : n.º 5 (1768)
Melanium scabrum Spreng. Syst. Veg. 2: 455 (1825)
Parsonsia prostrata Bert. ex DC. Prodr. [A. P. de Candolle] 3: 86. 1828 [mid Mar 1828]
Parsonsia radicans Hitchc. Rep. (Annual) Missouri Bot. Gard. 4: 87. 1893
Parsonsia herbacea J.St.-Hil. Expos. Fam. Nat. ii. 178.
Cuphea parsonsia var. balsamonoides Koehne Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 41: 83 (1907)
Cuphea parsonsia var. grisebachiana (Koehne) S.A.Graham Novon 15: 63 (2005)
Lythrum parsonsia L. Syst. Nat. ed. 10 , 2: 1045 (1759)
Parsonsia grisebachiana (Koehne) Jenn. Ann. Carnegie Mus. 11: 199. 1917
Cuphea grisebachiana Koehne Fl. Bras. 13(2): 225 (1877)
Cuphea hyssopifolia Griseb. Abh. Königl. Ges. Wiss. Göttingen 19: 140 (1874)
Cuphea radicans Macfad. Fl. Jamaica 2: 37 (1850)
Parsonsia parsonsia (L.) Britton Mem. Torrey Bot. Club 12: 53 (1902)

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English island waxweed
Chinese 白花雪茄花

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  • Southern America
    • Caribbean
      • Bahamas
      • Cuba
      • Dominican Republic
      • Haiti
      • Jamaica
      • Puerto Rico

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Database ID/link to page
World Flora Online wfo-0000630273
USDA Plants CUPA2
Tropicos 19200263
INPN 629491
KEW urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:553150-1
The Plant List kew-2748292
Open Tree Of Life 600034
NCBI Taxonomy 312589
IPNI 553150-1
iNaturalist 885855
GBIF 3188688
EOL 488086
USDA GRIN 313619

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Antiviral Activity of Jamaican Medicinal Plants and Isolated Bioactive Compounds Lowe H, Steele B, Bryant J, Fouad E, Toyang N, Ngwa W Molecules 25-Jan-2021
PMCID:PMC7865499
doi:10.3390/molecules26030607
PMID:33503834

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