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Internal ID UUID644012b839e80303364432
Scientific name Comandra umbellata
Authority (L.) Nutt.
First published in Gen. N. Amer. Pl. 1: 157 (1818)

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Scientific name Authority First published in
Thesium corymbosulum Michx. Fl. Bor.-Amer. 1: 112 (1803)
Comandra cuneifolia Raf. New Fl. 2: 33 (1837)
Comandra elliptica Raf. New Fl. 2: 33 (1837)
Comandra media Raf. New Fl. 2: 33 (1837)
Comandra obovata Raf. New Fl. 2: 33 (1837)
Comandra obtusifolia Raf. New Fl. 2: 33 (1837)
Comandra richardsiana Fernald Rhodora 7(75): 48 (47-49). 1905 [29 Mar 1905]
Comandra umbellata var. decumbens E.J.Hill Bot. Gaz. 9: 176 (1884)
Comandra umbellata var. lanceolata Nutt. J. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 7: 51 (1834)
Comandra umbellata subsp. richardsiana (Fernald) Á.Löve & D.Löve Taxon 31(1): 121 (1982):.
Comandra umbellulata Raf. New Fl. 2: 33 (1837)
Hamiltonia umbellata Spreng. Syst. Veg., ed. 16 [Sprengel] 1: 831. 1824 [dated 1825; publ. in late 1824]
Thesium umbellatum L. Sp. Pl. : 208 (1753)

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English bastard toadflax
English bastard-toadflax

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Comandra umbellata subsp. californica (Eastw. ex Rydb.) Piehl Mem. Torrey Bot. Club 22: 65 (1965)
Comandra umbellata subsp. elegans (Rochel ex Rchb.) Piehl Mem. Torrey Bot. Club 22: 57 1965
Comandra umbellata subsp. pallida (A.DC.) Piehl Mem. Torrey Bot. Club 22: 70 (1965)

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  • Europe
    • Southeastern Europe
      • Albania
      • Bulgaria
      • Greece
      • Romania
      • Turkey-in-Europe
      • Yugoslavia
  • Northern America
    • Eastern Canada
      • Labrador
      • New Brunswick
      • Newfoundland
      • Nova Scotia
      • Ontario
      • Prince Edward Island
      • Québec
    • Mexico
      • Mexico Northeast
      • Mexico Northwest
    • North-central U.S.A.
      • Illinois
      • Iowa
      • Kansas
      • Minnesota
      • Missouri
      • Nebraska
      • North Dakota
      • Oklahoma
      • South Dakota
      • Wisconsin
    • Northeastern U.S.A.
      • Connecticut
      • Indiana
      • Maine
      • Massachusetts
      • Michigan
      • New Hampshire
      • New Jersey
      • New York
      • Ohio
      • Pennsylvania
      • Rhode Island
      • Vermont
      • West Virginia
    • Northwestern U.S.A.
      • Colorado
      • Idaho
      • Montana
      • Oregon
      • Washington
      • Wyoming
    • South-central U.S.A.
      • New Mexico
      • Texas
    • Southeastern U.S.A.
      • Alabama
      • Arkansas
      • Delaware
      • District Of Columbia
      • Georgia
      • Kentucky
      • Maryland
      • Mississippi
      • North Carolina
      • South Carolina
      • Tennessee
      • Virginia
    • Southwestern U.S.A.
      • Arizona
      • California
      • Nevada
      • Utah
    • Subarctic America
      • Northwest Territorie
      • Yukon
    • Western Canada
      • Alberta
      • British Columbia
      • Manitoba
      • Saskatchewan

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Database ID/link to page
World Flora Online wfo-0000615918
Flora of Alabama 3332
Canadensys 9194
USDA Plants COUM
Tropicos 28500002
KEW urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:780112-1
The Plant List kew-2732240
Open Tree Of Life 964845
NCBI Taxonomy 50119
Nature Serve 2.141204
IPNI 780112-1
iNaturalist 59991
GBIF 2889777
Freebase /m/02x4rw5
WisFlora 3180
EPPO CDRUM
EOL 489634
Calflora (Californian flora) 9820
USDA GRIN 405203

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The effect of diversity on disease reverses from dilution to amplification in a 22-year biodiversity × N × CO2 experiment Strauss AT, Hobbie SE, Reich PB, Seabloom EW, Borer ET Sci Rep 13-May-2024
PMCID:PMC11091214
doi:10.1038/s41598-024-60725-z
PMID:38740878
Fundamentals of Plant Morphology and Plant Evo-Devo (Evolutionary Developmental Morphology) Sattler R, Rutishauser R Plants (Basel) 26-Dec-2022
PMCID:PMC9823526
doi:10.3390/plants12010118
PMID:36616247
Life history, diversity, and distribution in parasitic flowering plants Teixeira-Costa L, Davis CC Plant Physiol 17-Jun-2021
PMCID:PMC8418411
doi:10.1093/plphys/kiab279
PMID:35237798
Examining the utility of DNA barcodes for the identification of tallgrass prairie flora Herzog SA, Latvis M Appl Plant Sci 24-Jan-2021
PMCID:PMC7845766
doi:10.1002/aps3.11405
PMID:33552747
The bright side of parasitic plants: what are they good for? Těšitel J, Li AR, Knotková K, McLellan R, Bandaranayake PC, Watson DM Plant Physiol 29-Dec-2020
PMCID:PMC8133642
doi:10.1093/plphys/kiaa069
PMID:33793868
Quasipucciniastrum agrimoniae, gen. et sp. nov. on Agrimonia (Rosaceae) from China Qi XH, Cai L, Zhao P Mycology 30-Apr-2019
PMCID:PMC6691823
doi:10.1080/21501203.2019.1610522
PMID:31448148
Expanding and testing fluorescent amplified fragment length polymorphisms for identifying roots of boreal forest plant species Metzler P, La Flèche M, Karst J Appl Plant Sci 08-Apr-2019
PMCID:PMC6476169
doi:10.1002/aps3.1236
PMID:31024780
Pest categorisation of Cronartium spp. (non‐EU) Bragard C, Di Serio F, Gonthier P, Jacques M, 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, Vicent A, Yuen J, Zappalà L, Boberg J, Jeger M, Pautasso M, Dehnen‐Schmutz K EFSA J 19-Dec-2018
PMCID:PMC7009431
doi:10.2903/j.efsa.2018.5511
PMID:32625788
Comparative mitogenomics indicates respiratory competence in parasitic Viscum despite loss of complex I and extreme sequence divergence, and reveals horizontal gene transfer and remarkable variation in genome size Skippington E, Barkman TJ, Rice DW, Palmer JD BMC Plant Biol 21-Feb-2017
PMCID:PMC5319169
doi:10.1186/s12870-017-0992-8
PMID:28222679
Physical disturbance shapes vascular plant diversity more profoundly than fire in the sagebrush steppe of southeastern Idaho, U.S.A Lavin M, Brummer TJ, Quire R, Maxwell BD, Rew LJ Ecol Evol 28-Apr-2013
PMCID:PMC3686197
doi:10.1002/ece3.574
PMID:23789073

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