Cardiospermum L.

Native to:

Angola, Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Assam, Bahamas, Bangladesh, Belize, Benin, Bermuda, Bismarck Archipelago, Bolivia, Borneo, Botswana, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Burkina, Burundi, Cabinda, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Provinces, Cape Verde, Caprivi Strip, Cayman Is., Central African Republic, Chad, Chile Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Colombia, Comoros, Congo, Costa Rica, Cuba, Djibouti, Dominican Republic, DR Congo, East Himalaya, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Fiji, Free State, French Guiana, Gabon, Galápagos, Ghana, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Gulf of Guinea Is., Guyana, Hainan, Haiti, Hawaii, Honduras, India, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Jawa, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Laccadive Is., Laos, Leeward Is., Lesotho, Lesser Sunda Is., Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaya, Maldives, Mali, Maluku, Marianas, Marquesas, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mexican Pacific Is., Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nansei-shoto, Nepal, Netherlands Antilles, New Guinea, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Northern Provinces, Northern Territory, Oman, Pakistan, Panamá, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Queensland, Rwanda, Réunion, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Society Is., Solomon Is., Somalia, Sri Lanka, Sudan-South Sudan, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Suriname, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Tonga, Trinidad-Tobago, Turks-Caicos Is., Uganda, Uruguay, Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles, Vietnam, West Himalaya, Western Australia, Windward Is., Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Introduced into:

Alabama, Albania, Algeria, Andaman Is., Arizona, Arkansas, Ascension, Canary Is., Christmas I., Cook Is., Delaware, District of Columbia, East Aegean Is., Florida, Georgia, Greece, Illinois, Iraq, Italy, Kansas, Kentucky, Korea, Kriti, Lebanon-Syria, Louisiana, Madeira, Mississippi, Missouri, New Caledonia, New Jersey, New South Wales, New York, Nicobar Is., Niue, North Carolina, NW. Balkan Pen., Oklahoma, Rodrigues, Samoa, South Australia, South Carolina, South China Sea, South European Russia, Spain, St.Helena, Tennessee, Texas, Tuamotu, Tubuai Is., Türkiye, Vanuatu, Virginia, Wallis-Futuna Is.

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

• Govaerts, R. (1999). World Checklist of Seed Plants 3(1, 2a & 2b): 1-1532. MIM, Deurne.

Flora of West Tropical Africa

• Radlk. in Engl. Pflanzenr. Sapindac. 370 (1932).
• —F.T.A. 1: 417

Flora Zambesiaca

• Gen. Pl. ed. 5: 171 (1754).
• Sp. Pl. 1: 366 (1753)

Flora of Somalia

• Flora Somalia, Vol 2, (1999) Author: by I. Friis & K. Vollesen [updated by M. Thulin 2008]

Flora of Tropical East Africa

• L., Gen. Pl., ed. 5: 171 (1754)
• Radlk. in E.P. IV, 165: 370 (1932)
• Sp. Pl.: 366 (1753)