Mecardonia Ruiz & Pav.

Native to:

Alabama, Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Argentina South, Arkansas, Bahamas, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Chile Central, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Florida, French Guiana, Galápagos, Georgia, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Indiana, Jamaica, Kansas, Kentucky, Leeward Is., Louisiana, Maryland, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Mississippi, Missouri, New Mexico, Nicaragua, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Panamá, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Trinidad-Tobago, Uruguay, Venezuela, Virginia, West Virginia, Windward Is.

Introduced into:

Andaman Is., Assam, Bangladesh, Cameroon, Caroline Is., Chagos Archipelago, East Himalaya, Illinois, India, Lesser Sunda Is., Malaya, Marianas, Nauru, Nepal, Sierra Leone, Solomon Is., Taiwan, Tanzania

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 Tropical East Africa

• Prodr.: 95 (1794)
• Rosso, Rev. Gen. Mecardonia, Candollea 42: 431 (1987)