Desmanthus Willd.

First published in Sp. Pl., ed. 4. 4: 1044 (1806)
This genus is accepted
The native range of this genus is Tropical & Subtropical America.

Distribution

Native to:

Alabama, Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Arizona, Arkansas, Aruba, Bahamas, Belize, Bermuda, Bolivia, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Cayman Is., Chile Central, Chile North, Colombia, Colorado, Costa Rica, Cuba, Delaware, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Florida, Galápagos, Georgia, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Jamaica, Kansas, Kentucky, Leeward Is., Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, Netherlands Antilles, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, Nicaragua, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Panamá, Paraguay, Pennsylvania, Peru, Puerto Rico, South Carolina, South Dakota, Suriname, Tennessee, Texas, Trinidad-Tobago, Turks-Caicos Is., Uruguay, Utah, Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles, Virginia, West Virginia, Windward Is., Wisconsin

Introduced into:

Angola, Assam, Bangladesh, Canary Is., Cape Verde, Caroline Is., China South-Central, China Southeast, Comoros, East Himalaya, Gulf of Guinea Is., Hawaii, India, KwaZulu-Natal, Madagascar, Malaya, Marianas, Marquesas, Mauritius, Mexican Pacific Is., New Caledonia, Northern Territory, Ogasawara-shoto, Pakistan, Queensland, Rodrigues, Réunion, Samoa, Senegal, Seychelles, Solomon Is., Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Vanuatu, Wake I., West Himalaya, Zimbabwe

Synonyms

Heterotypic Synonyms

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

  • Govaerts, R. (2000). World Checklist of Seed Plants Database in ACCESS D: 1-30141.

Other Data

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

Date Reference Identified As Barcode Type Status Has image?
Jun 28, 1995 Oliveira, M. [125], Pernambuco K000849295 Yes
Rico, L. [1168], Mexico K000562978 No
Gaumer, G.F. [s.n.], Mexico K000563050 No
Salas M., S.H. [3336], Mexico K000562977 No
Rico, L. [1971], Dominican Republic K000478743 No

Sources

  • Flora of the Cayman Islands

    • Flora of the Cayman Islands
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  • Herbarium Catalogue Specimens

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

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2023. 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 2023. 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
  • Legumes of the World Online

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