Stachytarpheta Vahl

Native to:

Angola, Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Aruba, Bahamas, Belize, Benin, Bermuda, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, DR Congo, Ecuador, El Salvador, Florida, French Guiana, Gabon, Galápagos, Gambia, Ghana, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Gulf of Guinea Is., Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Kenya, Leeward Is., Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Netherlands Antilles, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Panamá, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Southwest Caribbean, Suriname, Tanzania, Togo, Trinidad-Tobago, Turks-Caicos Is., Uganda, Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles, Windward Is.

Introduced into:

Alabama, Aldabra, Andaman Is., Assam, Bangladesh, Bismarck Archipelago, Borneo, Burkina, Cambodia, Cape Provinces, Caroline Is., Chagos Archipelago, China Southeast, Christmas I., Cocos (Keeling) Is., Comoros, Congo, Cook Is., East Himalaya, Ethiopia, Fiji, Gilbert Is., Hawaii, India, Jawa, Kazan-retto, Laccadive Is., Lesser Sunda Is., Line Is., Madagascar, Malaya, Maldives, Maluku, Marianas, Marquesas, Marshall Is., Mozambique, Mozambique Channel Is., Myanmar, Nansei-shoto, Nauru, New Caledonia, New Guinea, Nicobar Is., Niue, Ogasawara-shoto, Philippines, Phoenix Is., Queensland, Samoa, Seychelles, Society Is., Solomon Is., South China Sea, Sri Lanka, Sudan-South Sudan, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Taiwan, Thailand, Tokelau-Manihiki, Tonga, Tuamotu, Tubuai Is., Vanuatu, Vietnam, Wake I., Wallis-Futuna Is., West Himalaya, Zimbabwe

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

• Govaerts, R. (2003). World Checklist of Selected Plant Families Database in ACCESS: 1-216203. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
• Reddy, G.V.P. (2011). Survey of invasive plants on Guam and identification of the 20 most widespread. Micronesica; Journal of the College of Guam 41: 263-274.

Flora of West Tropical Africa

• Brenan in Kew Bull. 5: 223 (1950) .4
• —F.T.A. 5: 283

Flora Zambesiaca

• Atkins in Kadereit (ed.), Fam. Gen. Vasc. Pl. (Kubitzki, ed. in chief) VII: 463 (2004).
• Bol. Soc. Brot., sér. 2, 57 : 87–111 (1984).
• Enum. Pl. 1: 205 (1804) nom. conserv.
• Kadereit (ed.), Fam. Gen. Vasc. Pl. (Kubitzki, ed. in chief) VII : 463 (2004).
• R. Fernandes in Bol. Soc. Brot., sér. 2, 57: 87–111 (1984).

Flora of Tropical East Africa

• Enum. Pl. 1: 205 (1804)
• Moldenke in Rev. Fl. Ceylon 4: 246–267 (1983)
• R. Fernandes in Bol. Soc. Brot., sér. 2, 57: 87–111 (1984), nom. conserv.