Laportea Gaudich.

Native to:

Alabama, Aldabra, Andaman Is., Angola, Arkansas, Assam, Bahamas, Bangladesh, Belize, Benin, Bismarck Archipelago, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Burkina, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Provinces, Cape Verde, Caroline Is., Central African Republic, Central American Pacific Is., Chad, China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Christmas I., Cocos (Keeling) Is., Colombia, Congo, Connecticut, Cook Is., Costa Rica, Cuba, Delaware, District of Columbia, Dominican Republic, East Himalaya, Ecuador, El Salvador, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Florida, French Guiana, Gabon, Galápagos, Gambia, Georgia, Ghana, Gilbert Is., Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Gulf of Guinea Is., Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Illinois, India, Indiana, Iowa, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Japan, Jawa, Kansas, Kentucky, Kenya, Korea, Kuril Is., KwaZulu-Natal, Laccadive Is., Laos, Leeward Is., Lesser Sunda Is., Liberia, Line Is., Louisiana, Madagascar, Maine, Malawi, Malaya, Maldives, Mali, Maluku, Manchuria, Manitoba, Marianas, Marshall Is., Maryland, Massachusetts, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nauru, Nebraska, Nepal, New Brunswick, New Guinea, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Newfoundland, Nicaragua, Nigeria, North Carolina, North Dakota, Northern Provinces, Northern Territory, Nova Scotia, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oman, Ontario, Panamá, Pennsylvania, Peru, Philippines, Phoenix Is., Primorye, Puerto Rico, Queensland, Québec, Rhode I., Rwanda, Réunion, Saskatchewan, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Society Is., Solomon Is., South Carolina, South Dakota, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Suriname, Swaziland, Taiwan, Tanzania, Tennessee, Thailand, Tibet, Togo, Tokelau-Manihiki, Trinidad-Tobago, Tuamotu, Tubuai Is., Uganda, Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles, Vermont, Vietnam, Virginia, West Himalaya, West Virginia, Western Australia, Windward Is., Wisconsin, Yemen, Zambia, Zaïre, Zimbabwe

Extinct in:

Mauritius

Introduced into:

Argentina Northwest, Fiji, France, Hawaii, Marquesas, New Caledonia, Niue, Samoa, Santa Cruz Is., Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, Wallis-Futuna Is.

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 of West Tropical Africa

• —F.T.A. 6, 2: 252.

Flora Zambesiaca

• Chew in Gard. Bull., Singapore 25: 111–178 (1969) nom. conserv.
• in Freyc., Voy. Monde, Bot.: 498 (1830).

Flora of Tropical East Africa

• Chew in Gard. Bull., Singapore 21: 200 (1965)
• Chew in Gard. Bull., Singapore 25: 111 (1969), nom. conserv.
• Engl. in E. & P. Pf. 3(1): 106 (1888)
• G.F.P. 2: 183 (1967)
• G.P. 3: 383 (1880)
• in Freyc., Voy. Monde, Bot.: 498 (1830)