Celosia L.

Native to:

Angola, Bahamas, Benin, Botswana, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Burkina, Burundi, Cabinda, Cameroon, Cape Provinces, Cape Verde, Central African Repu, Chad, Colombia, Congo, Costa Rica, Cuba, Djibouti, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Florida, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Gulf of Guinea Is., Haiti, Honduras, India, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Leeward Is., Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Mozambique, Namibia, Netherlands Antilles, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Northern Provinces, Oman, Panamá, Peru, Puerto Rico, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Southwest Caribbean, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Swaziland, Taiwan, Tanzania, Texas, Togo, Uganda, Venezuela, Windward Is., Yemen, Zambia, Zaïre, Zimbabwe

Introduced into:

Afghanistan, Alabama, Albania, Andaman Is., Argentina Northeast, Arkansas, Assam, Bangladesh, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil West-Central, Bulgaria, California, Cambodia, Caroline Is., Cayman Is., China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Christmas I., Comoros, Connecticut, Cook Is., Czechoslovakia, District of Columbia, East European Russia, East Himalaya, Fiji, Galápagos, Hainan, Illinois, Indiana, Inner Mongolia, Italy, Japan, Jawa, Kansas, Kentucky, Korea, Laos, Lesser Sunda Is., Libya, Louisiana, Malaya, Maldives, Manchuria, Marianas, Marquesas, Marshall Is., Maryland, Mauritius, Mexico Central, Missouri, Myanmar, Nepal, New Caledonia, New Guinea, New Jersey, New York, Nicobar Is., North Carolina, Ohio, Pakistan, Paraguay, Pennsylvania, Philippines, Qinghai, Queensland, Rhode I., Rodrigues, Romania, Réunion, Sicilia, Society Is., Solomon Is., South Carolina, South China Sea, Sumatera, Tadzhikistan, Tennessee, Thailand, Tibet, Trinidad-Tobago, Tuamotu, Turkmenistan, Utah, Vermont, Vietnam, Wallis-Futuna Is., West Himalaya, West Virginia, Xinjiang

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

• Govaerts, R. (1999). World Checklist of Seed Plants 3(1, 2a & 2b): 1-1532. MIM, Deurne.
• Zhao, Y.Z., Zhao, L.Q. & Cao, R. (eds.) in Zhao, Y.Z., Zhao, L.Q. & Rui, C. (eds.) (2019). Flora Intramongolica, edition 3, 1: 1-779. Typis Intramongolicae popularis, Huhhot.

Flora of West Tropical Africa

• Schinz in E. & P. Pflanzenfam. 16C: 29 (1934).
• —F.T.A. 6, 1: 16

Flora Zambesiaca

• Sp. Pl. 1: 205 (1753)
• Townsend, The genus Celosia (Subgenus Celosia) in tropical Africa, Hook. Ic. Pl. 38, 2: 1–123 (1975).
• in Gen. Pl. ed. 5: 96 (1754).

Flora of Somalia

• Flora Somalia, Vol 1, (1993) Author: by C. C. Townsend [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
• Townsend in Hook. Ic. Pl. 38(2): 1–123 (1975).

Flora of Tropical East Africa

• C.C. Townsend in Hook., Ic. Pl. 38(2) (1975)
• L., Gen. Pl., ed. 5: 96 (1754)
• Sp. Pl.: 205 (1753)