Asteraceae
Pluchea

Pluchea ovalis (Pers.) DC.

First published in Prodr. 5: 450 (1836)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is Dry parts of Africa, Comoros, Madagascar, Arabian Peninsula to NW. India. It is a shrub and grows primarily in the seasonally dry tropical biome.

Distribution

Native to:

Afghanistan, Angola, Benin, Burkina, Burundi, Cape Verde, Chad, Comoros, DR Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gulf States, India, Iran, Iraq, Kenya, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Namibia, Oman, Pakistan, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Somalia, Sudan-South Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, West Himalaya, Yemen

Introduced into:

Canary Is.

Synonyms

Homotypic Synonyms

Heterotypic Synonyms

Classification

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Publications

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

  • Al-Hawshabi, O.S.S. & al. (2017). Addition of some Angiospermic plants to the flora of Yemen. Kuwait Journal of Science 44: 105-111.
  • Ghazanfar, S.A. (1992). An Annotated Catalogue of the Vascular Plants of Oman and their Vernacular names. Scripta Botanica Belgica 2: 1-153.
  • Ghazanfar, S.A., Edmondson, J.R. & Hind, D.J.N. (eds.) (2019). Flora of Iraq 6: 1-458. Ministry of Agriculture & Agrarian Reform, Baghdad.
  • Mao, A.A. & Dash, S.S. (2020). Flowering Plants of India an Annotated Checklist (Dicotyledons) 1: 1-970. Botanical Survey of India.
  • Qaiser, M. & Abid, R. (2003). Flora of Pakistan 210: 1-215. Department of Botany, University of Karachi, Karachi.
  • Roskov Y. & al. (eds.) (2018). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands.

Flora of West Tropical Africa

  • Berhaut Fl. Sén. 146, 170.
  • F.T.A. 3: 328
  • Fl. Sperm. Parc Nat. Alb. 2: 483, t. 45
  • Prod. 5: 450 (1836)

Flora of Iraq

  • Collenette, Wild Flow. Saudi Arabia: 209 (1999)
  • DC., Prodr. 5: 450 (1836)
  • Kilian & Ghazanfar in Fl. Oman 3: 261 (2015).
  • King-Jones in Willdenowia 23: 91 (2001)
  • Qaiser & Abid in Fl. Pakistan 210: 107 (2003)

Kew Backbone Distributions

  • Al-Hawshabi, O.S.S. & al. (2017). Addition of some Angiospermic plants to the flora of Yemen. Kuwait Journal of Science 44: 105-111.
  • Ghazanfar, S.A., Edmondson, J.R. & Hind, D.J.N. (eds.) (2019). Flora of Iraq 6: 1-458. Ministry of Agriculture & Agrarian Reform, Baghdad.
  • Kotiya, A., Solanki, Y. & Reddy, G.V. (2020). Flora of Rajasthan: 1-769. Rajasthan state biodiversity board.

Flora of Tropical East Africa

  • Agnew, A.D.Q. & Agnew, S., Upland Kenya Wild Flowers, ed. 2: 208 (1994).
  • Beentje, Kenya Trees, Shrubs and Lianas p. 560 (1994).
  • C.D. Adams in Flora of West Tropical Africa ed. 2, 2: 260 (1963).
  • DC., Prodr. 5: 450 (1836).
  • F. W. Andr., The Flowering Plants of the Sudan 3: 45 (1956).
  • J.P.M. Brenan, Check-lists of the Forest Trees and Shrubs of the British Empire no. 5, part II, Tanganyika Territory p. 157 (1949).
  • Lisowski in Flore d'Afrique Centrale Compositae, Inuleae: 22, t. 2 (1989).
  • Maquet in Troupin, Fl. Rwanda 3: 594 (1985).
  • Oliv. & Hiern in Flora of Tropical Africa 3: 328 (1877).

Other Data

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

Sources

  • Angiosperm Extinction Risk Predictions v1

    • Angiosperm Threat Predictions
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

  • Flora of Iraq

    • Ghazanfar, S. A., Edmondson, J. R. (Eds). (2013-2019). Flora of Iraq, Volumes 5.1, 5.2 and 6.0. Kew Publishing
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Flora of Tropical East Africa

    • 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/

  • IUCN Categories

    • IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2026. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2026. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0