Gamochaeta americana (Mill.) Wedd.
Distribution
Native to:
Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Argentina South, Bolivia, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Chile Central, Chile South, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Falkland Is., Galápagos, Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Nicaragua, Panamá, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Uruguay, Venezuela
Introduced into:
Alabama, Arkansas, California, Cape Provinces, China South-Central, Florida, France, Georgia, India, KwaZulu-Natal, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Zealand North, North Carolina, Northern Provinces, Portugal, South Carolina, Spain, Swaziland, Taiwan, Texas, Tristan da Cunha, Virginia, West Himalaya
Synonyms
Homotypic Synonyms
- Gnaphalium americanum Mill. in Gard. Dict., ed. 8.: [s.p.] (1768)
- Gnaphalium purpureum var. americanum (Mill.) Klatt in Linnaea 42: 140 (1878)
Heterotypic Synonyms
- Gamochaeta americana var. alpina Wedd. in Chlor. Andina 1: 152 (1856)
- Gamochaeta americana subvar. interrupta Wedd. in Chlor. Andina 1: 152 (1856)
- Gamochaeta americana var. vulgaris Wedd. in Chlor. Andina 1: 152 (1856)
- Gamochaeta coarctata (Willd.) Kerguélen in Lejeunia, n.s., 120: 104 (1987)
- Gamochaeta guatemalensis (Gand.) Cabrera in Bol. Soc. Argent. Bot. 9: 371 (1961)
- Gamochaeta irazuensis G.L.Nesom in Phytologia 68: 199 (1990)
- Gamochaeta spicata (Klatt) Cabrera in Bol. Soc. Argent. Bot. 9: 380 (1961), nom. superfl.
- Gnaphalium coarctatum Willd. in Sp. Pl., ed. 4. 3: 1886 (1803)
- Gnaphalium consanguineum Gaudich. in Ann. Sci. Nat. (Paris) 5: 103 (1825)
- Gnaphalium guatemalense Gand. in Bull. Soc. Bot. France 65: 42 (1918)
- Gnaphalium liui S.S.Ying in Coloured Ill. Fl. Taiwan 6: 666 (1998)
- Gnaphalium purpureum var. macrophyllum Greenm. in Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 39: 97 (1903)
- Gnaphalium purpureum var. spicatum Klatt in Linnaea 42: 140 (1878)
- Gnaphalium radians var. spicatum Klatt in Linnaea 42: 140 (1878-1879)
- Gnaphalium spicatum Lam. in Encycl. 2: 757 (1788), nom. illeg.
- Gnaphalium spicatum var. alpinum (Wedd.) Hieron. in Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 29: 31 (1900)
- Gnaphalium spicatum var. chonoticum Hook.f. in Fl. Antarct. 2: 309 (1846)
- Gnaphalium spicatum var. consanguineum Skottsb. in Wiss. Ergebn. Schwed. Sudpol.-Exped. 4(10): 50 (1909)
- Gnaphalium spicatum f. consanguineum Skottsb. in Kongl. Svenska Vetensk. Acad. Handl., n.f., 50(3): 55 (1913)
- Gnaphalium spicatum var. hololeucum Phil. in Anales Univ. Chile 90: 21 (1895)
- Gnaphalium spicatum var. interruptum DC. in Prodr. 6: 232 (1838)
- Gnaphalium spicatum var. sabulosum DC. in Prodr. 6: 232 (1838)
Publications
POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:
- (2021). https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.523.4.1. epublication.
- Pruski, J.F. (ed.) (2018). Flora Mesoamericana 5(2): 1-608. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México, D.F.
An alternative taxonomy had been proposed by the following authorities:
- Roskov Y. & al. (eds.) (2018). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands. [Cited as Gamochaeta purpurea.]
Catálogo de Plantas y Líquenes de Colombia
- Bernal, R., Gradstein, S.R. & Celis, M. (eds.). 2015. Catálogo de plantas y líquenes de Colombia. Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá. http://catalogoplantasdecolombia.unal.edu.co
Kew Backbone Distributions
- Pruski, J.F. (ed.) (2018). Flora Mesoamericana 5(2): 1-608. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México, D.F.
Useful Plants and Fungi of Colombia
- Bernal, R., Gradstein, S.R., & Celis, M. (eds.). (2020). Catálogo de Plantas y Líquenes de Colombia. v1.1. Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Dataset/Checklist. https://doi.org/10.15472/7avdhn
- Diazgranados et al. (2021). Catalogue of plants of Colombia. Useful Plants and Fungi of Colombia project. In prep.
- Diazgranados, M., Allkin, B., Black N., Cámara-Leret, R., Canteiro C., Carretero J., Eastwood R., Hargreaves S., Hudson A., Milliken W., Nesbitt, M., Ondo, I., Patmore, K., Pironon, S., Turner, R., Ulian, T. (2020). World Checklist of Useful Plant Species. Produced by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Knowledge Network for Biocomplexity.
- GBIF.org (2021). GBIF species matching tool. https://www.gbif.org/tools/species-lookup
- Garcia, H. (1992). Flora Medicinal de Colombia. Botánica Médica. Segunda Edición. Tercer Mundo Editores. Tomo III.
- Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt (2019). Lista de especies vedadas por la resolución 213 de 1977. 8256 especies. http://i2d.humboldt.org.co/ceiba/resource.do?r=le_plantaspriorizadas_2019
- Medicinal Plant Names Services (MPNS) v.10 (2021); http://mpns.kew.org/
Other Data
Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:
Date | Reference | Identified As | Barcode | Type Status | Has image? |
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Jan 1, 1994 | Harley, R.M. [26524], Bahia | K000053202 | Yes | ||
Jan 1, 1994 | Harley, R.M. [27263], Bahia | K000053204 | Yes | ||
Jan 1, 1994 | Harley, R.M. [27263], Bahia | K000053205 | Yes | ||
Sep 1, 1993 | Harley, R.M. [H50635], Bahia | K000053201 | Yes | ||
Sep 1, 1993 | Hind, D.J.N. [H50960], Bahia | K000053203 | Yes | ||
Lombardi, J.A. [2836], Brazil | K001107570 | Yes | |||
s.coll. [515], Brazil | Gnaphalium americanum | K001107639 | Yes | ||
Pedersren, T.M. [6665], Brazil | Gnaphalium americanum | K001107634 | Yes | ||
s.coll. [514], Brazil | Gnaphalium americanum | K001107637 | Yes | ||
s.coll. [s.n.], Brazil | Gnaphalium americanum | K001107640 | Yes | ||
s.coll. [514], Brazil | Gnaphalium americanum | K001107638 | Yes | ||
Jameson, W. [478], Ecuador | Gnaphalium spicatum | K000500336 | Yes | ||
Drummond, T. [583], USA | Gnaphalium spicatum | K001034391 | No | ||
s.coll. [643], Chile | Gnaphalium spicatum | K000500390 | Yes | ||
Wilson, W. [456], Jamaica | Gnaphalium spicatum | K001088783 | No |
Sources
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Catálogo de Plantas y Líquenes de Colombia
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Colombian resources for Plants made Accessible
- ColPlantA 2021. Published on the Internet at http://colplanta.org
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Herbarium Catalogue Specimens
- Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
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Kew Backbone Distributions
- The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2023. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
- © Copyright 2022 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
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Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone
- The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2023. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
- © Copyright 2022 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
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Kew Science Photographs
- Copyright applied to individual images
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Universidad Nacional de Colombia
- ColPlantA database
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0
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Useful Plants and Fungi of Colombia
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0