Asteraceae
Elephantopus

Elephantopus mollis Kunth

First published in F.W.H.von Humboldt, A.J.A.Bonpland & C.S.Kunth, Nov. Gen. Sp., ed. fol., 4: 20 (1818)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is Tropical & Subtropical America. It is a perennial and grows primarily in the subtropical biome. It is used to treat unspecified medicinal disorders, as a medicine and for food.

Distribution

Native to:

Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Nicaragua, Panamá, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Suriname, Trinidad-Tobago, Uruguay, Venezuela, Windward Is.

Introduced into:

Angola, Benin, Burkina, Cameroon, Caroline Is., Central African Repu, Comoros, Congo, Ethiopia, Fiji, Gabon, Guinea-Bissau, Gulf of Guinea Is., Hawaii, Ivory Coast, Malaya, Mali, Marianas, Marquesas, Nansei-shoto, New South Wales, Nigeria, Ogasawara-shoto, Philippines, Queensland, Senegal, Society Is., Sudan, Thailand, Togo, Tonga, Tuamotu, Tubuai Is., Vanuatu, Vietnam, Zambia, Zaïre

Synonyms

Homotypic Synonyms

Heterotypic Synonyms

Publications

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

  • Barthelat, F. (2019). La flore illustrée de Mayotte: 1-687. Biotope éditions.
  • Beentje, H.J. (2021). Flore du Gabon 56: 1-148. Muséum National D'Histoire Naturelle, Paris.
  • Fosberg, F.R., Sachet, M.-H., Oliver, R. (1979). A geographical checklist of the Micronesian Dicotyledonae. Micronesica; Journal of the College of Guam 15: 41-295.
  • Kiew, R. & al. (eds.) (2021). Malayan Forest Records 49: 1-403.
  • Koyama, H., Bunwong, S., Pornpongrungrueng, P. & Hind, D.J.N. (2016). Flora of Thailand 13(2): 143-428. The Forest Herbarium, Royal Forest Department.
  • Liogier, A.H. (1996). Flora de la Española 8: 1-588. Instituto Tecnológico de Santo Domingo.
  • Plunkett, G.M., Ranker, T.A., Sam, C. & Balick, M.J. (2022). Towards a checklist of the vascular flora of Vanuatu. Candollea 77: 105-118.
  • Robinson, H. & Funk, V. (2018). 190(1). Compositae-Vernonieae. Flora of Ecuador 94: 1-128. Gothenburg University.
  • Roskov Y. & al. (eds.) (2018). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands.
  • St. John, H. (1988). Census of the Flora of the Gambier islands, Polynesia. Pacific Plant Studies 43: 1-34.
  • Turner, I.M. (1995). A catalogue of the Vascular Plants of Malaya. Gardens' Bulletin Singapore 47(1): 1-346.

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

Flora of West Tropical Africa

  • Nov. Gen. & Sp. Pl. 4: 26 (1820)
  • Philipson in J. Bot. 76: 303-304 (1938).

Useful Plants of Boyacá Project

  • Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humbodlt (2014). Plantas alimenticias y medicinales nativas de Colombia. 2567 registros, aportados por: Castellanos, C. (Contacto del recurso), Valderrama, N. (Creador del recurso, Autor), Castro, C. (Proveedor de metadatos), Bernal, Y. (Autor), García, N. (Autor). Versión 11.0. http://i2d.humboldt.org.co/ceiba/resource.do?r=ls_colombia_magnoliophyta_2014
  • Kew's Economic Botany collection in The State of the World’s Plants Report–2016. (2016). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew https://stateoftheworldsplants.org/2016/

Kew Backbone Distributions

  • (2020). https://www.jstor.org/stable/26958715. epublication.
  • Barthelat, F. (2019). La flore illustrée de Mayotte: 1-687. Biotope éditions.
  • Beentje, H.J. (2021). Flore du Gabon 56: 1-148. Muséum National D'Histoire Naturelle, Paris.
  • Hallé, N. (1980). Les Orchidees de Tubuai (archipel des Australes, Sud Polynesie), suivies d'un catalogue des plantes a fleurs et fougeres des iles Australes. Cahiers de l'Indo-Pacifique 2(3): 69-130.
  • Kiew, R. & al. (eds.) (2021). Malayan Forest Records 49: 1-403.
  • Koyama, H., Bunwong, S., Pornpongrungrueng, P. & Hind, D.J.N. (2016). Flora of Thailand 13(2): 143-428. The Forest Herbarium, Royal Forest Department.
  • Plunkett, G.M., Ranker, T.A., Sam, C. & Balick, M.J. (2022). Towards a checklist of the vascular flora of Vanuatu. Candollea 77: 105-118.
  • Pruski, J.F. (ed.) (2018). Flora Mesoamericana 5(2): 1-608. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México, D.F.
  • St. John, H. (1988). Census of the Flora of the Gambier islands, Polynesia. Pacific Plant Studies 43: 1-34.
  • Turner, I.M. (1995). A catalogue of the Vascular Plants of Malaya. Gardens' Bulletin Singapore 47(1): 1-346.

Flora of Tropical East Africa

  • A.J. Scott in Fl. Masc. 109: 25, t. 5 (1993).
  • C. Jeffrey in Kew Bulletin 43: 273 (1988).
  • C.D. Adams in Flora of West Tropical Africa ed. 2, 2: 269, fig. 258 (1963).
  • G.V. Pope in Flora Zambesiaca 6: 188 (1992).
  • Kunth in Humb., Bonpl. & Kunth, Nov. Gen. Sp., ed. fol. 4: 20 (1818).
  • Lisowski in Fragm. Flor. Geobot. 37: 281 (1992).
  • Philipson in Journal of Botany 76: 303 (1938).

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
  • Burkill HM. (1995). The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vols. 1-3. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vols 1-3.
  • Cámara-Leret, R., & Dennehy, Z. (2019). Information gaps in indigenous and local knowledge for science-policy assessments. Nature Sustainability 2:736-741.
  • 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.
  • FPI (2021). Food Plants International. https://fms.cmsvr.com/fmi/webd/Food_Plants_World?homeurl=https://foodplantsinternational.com/plants/
  • GBIF.org (2021). GBIF species matching tool. https://www.gbif.org/tools/species-lookup
  • GRIN (2021). Germplasm Resources Information Network from the United States Department of Agriculture. https://www.ars-grin.gov/
  • Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humbodlt (2014). Plantas alimenticias y medicinales nativas de Colombia. 2567 registros, aportados por: Castellanos, C. (Contacto del recurso), Valderrama, N. (Creador del recurso, Autor), Bernal, Y. (Autor), García, N. (Autor). http://i2d.humboldt.org.co/ceiba/resource.do?r=ls_colombia_magnoliophyta_2014
  • 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
  • Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt. (2014). Plantas alimenticias y medicinales nativas de Colombia. 2567 registros, aportados por: Castellanos, C. (Contacto del recurso), Valderrama, N. (Creador del recurso, Autor), Bernal, Y. (Autor), García, N. (Autor). http://i2d.humboldt.org.co/ceiba/resource.do?r=ls_colombia_magnoliophyta_2014
  • Medicinal Plant Names Services (MPNS) v.10 (2021); http://mpns.kew.org/
  • Plants for malaria, plants for fever: Medicinal species in Latin America, a bibliographic survey: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  • RBG, Kew (2021). Kew Economic Botany Collection. https://ecbot.science.kew.org/

Other Data

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

Date Reference Identified As Barcode Type Status Has image?
Aug 1, 2015 Du, N.V. et al. [HNK 2558], Vietnam K001045448 No
Jul 1, 2012 Burchell [759], Brazil K000955297 Yes
Jun 1, 2012 Burchell, W.J. [4410], Brazil K000955298 Yes
Jun 1, 2012 Riedel [483], Brazil K000955294 Yes
Jun 1, 2012 Burchell, W.J. [9261], Brazil K000955300 Yes
Jun 1, 2012 Traill, J.W.H. [456], Brazil K000955299 Yes
Jun 1, 2012 Burchell, W.J. [1766], Brazil K000955295 Yes
Jun 1, 2012 Burchell, W.J. [7942], Brazil K000955296 Yes
Jun 1, 2012 Burchell, W.J. [8695], Brazil K000955291 Yes
Jun 1, 2012 Riedel [453], Brazil K000955293 Yes
Apr 1, 2010 Gardner [3805], Goiás K000873816 Yes
Apr 1, 2010 [Martius] [136], Brazil K000677901 syntype Yes
Apr 1, 2010 [Martius] [136], Brazil K000677902 isosyntype Yes
Apr 1, 2010 Gardner, G. [2209], Piauí K000054166 paratype Yes
Jan 1, 2010 Chew [60165], Peninsular Malaysia K000705407 No
Jan 1, 2010 Lim [65693], Peninsular Malaysia K000705406 No
Jan 1, 2010 Chew [60225], Peninsular Malaysia K000705404 No
Apr 1, 2009 Kulip, J. et al. [140650], Sabah K000610481 No
Nov 1, 2008 Cheek, M. [13500], Cameroon K000008197 No
Feb 1, 2008 Jones [79], Sabah K000512323 No
Feb 1, 2008 Jones [20], Sabah K000512324 No
Jan 1, 2004 Pollard, B.J. [604], Cameroon K000746101 No
Jan 1, 2004 Ghogue, J.-P. [1063], Cameroon K000746102 No
Jul 1, 2001 Cheek, M. [9079], Cameroon K000108649 No
Jul 1, 2001 Gosline, G. [168], Cameroon K000108648 No
Jul 1, 2001 Ghogue, J.-P. [27], Cameroon K000108650 No
Jan 1, 2001 Irwin, H.S. [16063], Brazil K000989704 Yes
Jan 1, 2001 Philcox, D. [4034], Brazil K000989697 Yes
Dec 1, 1996 Hind, D.J.N. [PCD3105], Bahia K000069373 No
Jul 1, 1996 Hind, D.J.N. [PCD3690], Bahia K000069372 No
Sep 1, 1995 Ganev, W. [3239], Bahia K000069379 No
Aug 1, 1992 Ganev, W. [75], Bahia K000069378 No
Jan 1, 1983 Prance, G.T. [9893], Brazil K000989698 Yes
Jan 1, 1982 Mori, S.A. [14326], Bahia K000069376 No
Jan 1, 1978 Harley, R.M. [20188], Bahia K000069377 No
Jan 1, 1976 Leeuwenberg, A.J.M. [8980], Cameroon K000050952 No
Jan 1, 1971 Gardner, G. [1737], Ceará K000054159 isosyntype Yes
Jan 1, 1971 Gardner, G. [1737], Ceará K000054160 Yes
Jan 1, 1971 Samuels, J.A. [101], Surinam K000497144 paratype Yes
Jan 1, 1971 Godfrey [s.n.], Ceará K000497147 paratype Yes
Jan 1, 1971 Poiteau [s.n.], French Guiana K000497152 Yes
Jan 1, 1971 Sintenis, P. [282], Puerto Rico K000634194 Yes
Jan 1, 1971 Burchell, W.J. [9822], Brazil K000955301 Yes
Jan 1, 1971 Gardner [3805], Goiás K000497151 paratype Yes
Jan 1, 1971 Glaziou, A.F.M. [13984], Brazil K000989700 Yes
Jan 1, 1971 Chevalier, A.J.B. [2817], Mali K000391805 No
Jan 1, 1966 Irwin, H.S. [14737], Bahia K000069380 No
Jan 1, 1960 Irwin, H.S. [48662], Brazil K000989699 Yes
Jan 1, 1960 Reitz, R. [8264], Brazil K000989702 Yes
Jan 1, 1939 Burchell, J. [3906], Brazil K000955292 Yes
Jan 1, 1939 Nicholson [S.N.], Antigua & Barbuda K000634193 syntype Yes
Jan 1, 1939 Burchell [7093], Brazil K000955302 Yes
Jan 1, 1939 Burchell, W.J. [2164], Brazil K000955290 Yes
Sep 1, 1931 Krukoff, B.A. [1162], Brazil K000989703 Yes
Trail, J.W.H. [456], Surinam K000497146 paratype Yes
Maitland, T.D. [249], Cameroon K000050953 No
Adebusuyi, J.K. [FHI 44029], Cameroon K000050957 No
Olorunfemi, J. [30549], Cameroon K000050959 No
Sello [s.n.], Brazil K000989694 Yes
Hoehne, W. [s.n.], Brazil K000989701 Yes
Philcox, D. [4337], Brazil K000989705 Yes
Martii [136], Rio de Janeiro K000497150 Unknown type material Yes
Blanchet, J.S. [s.n.], Bahia K000054158 No
Martii [136], Brazil K000497148 Unknown type material Yes
Winkler, H.J.P. [676], Cameroon K000050956 No
Maitland, T.D. [128], Cameroon K000050954 No
Salzmann, P. [s.n.], Bahia K000069374 No
Hostmann [875], Surinam K000497145 isotype Yes
Salzmann, P. [s.n.], Bahia K000069381 Yes
Imray [370], Dominica K000497159 isosyntype Yes
Lindeman, J.C. [28], Brazil K000989696 Yes
Maitland, T.D. [61], Cameroon K000050955 No
Coll. Nat. d'Agric. de Dschang [1860], Cameroon K000050950 No
Olorunfemi, J. [30549], Cameroon K000050958 No
Blanchet, J.S. [s.n.], Bahia K000069375 No
Claussen, P. [s.n.], Brazil K000989693 Yes
Tweedie, J. [s.n.], Brazil K000989695 Yes

Sources

  • Catálogo de Plantas y Líquenes de Colombia

    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Colombian resources for Plants made Accessible

    • ColPlantA 2021. Published on the Internet at http://colplanta.org
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

  • Flora Zambesiaca

    • Flora Zambesiaca
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

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    • Flora of Tropical East Africa
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Flora of West Tropical Africa

    • Flora of West Tropical Africa
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Herbarium Catalogue Specimens

    • Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

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    • © Copyright 2022 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

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    • © Copyright 2022 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

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    • Copyright applied to individual images

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    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

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    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

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    • ColPlantA database
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/