Rivina Plum. ex L.

Native to:

Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Arizona, Arkansas, Aruba, Bahamas, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Cayman Is., Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Florida, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Louisiana, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Netherlands Antilles, New Mexico, Nicaragua, Oklahoma, Panamá, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Southwest Caribbean, Suriname, Texas, Trinidad-Tobago, Turks-Caicos Is., Uruguay, Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles, Windward Is.

Introduced into:

Andaman Is., Assam, Bangladesh, Bermuda, Cape Provinces, Cape Verde, Chagos Archipelago, China Southeast, Cocos (Keeling) Is., Comoros, Fiji, Galápagos, Hawaii, India, Ivory Coast, Japan, Jawa, KwaZulu-Natal, Madeira, Malaya, Mauritius, Mozambique, New Caledonia, New South Wales, Norfolk Is., Northern Provinces, Ogasawara-shoto, Philippines, Queensland, Réunion, Seychelles, Society Is., Somalia, Sri Lanka, Sumatera, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, Vietnam, Zaïre, Zimbabwe

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

• Govaerts, R., Nic Lughadha, E., Black, N., Turner, R. & Paton, A. (2021). The World Checklist of Vascular Plants, a continuously updated resource for exploring global plant diversity. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-021-00997-6. Scientific Data 8: 215.

Flora Zambesiaca

• Sp. Pl. 1: 121 (1753) et ed. 2: 177 (1762).

Flora of Somalia

• Flora Somalia, Vol 1, (1993) Author: by M. Thulin [updated by M. Thulin 2008]

Flora of Tropical East Africa

• H. Walt. in E.P. IV. 83: 101 (1909)
• L., Gen. Pl., ed. 5: 57 (1754), as Rivinia
• Sp. Pl.: 121 (1753)