Rubiaceae

Diodia L.

First published in Sp. Pl.: 104 (1753)
This genus is accepted
The native range of this genus is Central & E. U.S.A. to Tropical America, Tropical Africa.

Distribution

Native to:

Alabama, Angola, Argentina Northeast, Arkansas, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Connecticut, Cuba, Delaware, Dominican Republic, Florida, French Guiana, Georgia, Ghana, Guyana, Haiti, Illinois, Indiana, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Kansas, Kentucky, Kenya, Leeward Is., Liberia, Louisiana, Maryland, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Southwest, Mississippi, Missouri, New Jersey, Nigeria, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Paraguay, Pennsylvania, Peru, Puerto Rico, Sierra Leone, Socotra, Somalia, South Carolina, Tanzania, Tennessee, Texas, Venezuela, Virginia, West Virginia, Windward Is., Zambia

Introduced into:

China Southeast, Congo, Costa Rica, Japan, Korea, Mexico Southeast, Nicaragua, Taiwan

Synonyms

Heterotypic Synonyms

Accepted Species

Classification

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Publications

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.

Flora of West Tropical Africa

  • —F.T.A. 3: 230.

Flora Zambesiaca

  • Gen. Pl., ed. 5: 45 (1754).
  • Sp. Pl.: 104 (1753)

Flora of Tropical East Africa

  • L., Gen. Pl., ed. 5: 45 (1754)
  • Sp. Pl.: 104 (1753)

Other Data

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

Sources

  • Flora Zambesiaca

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

  • Flora of Tropical East Africa

    • Flora of Tropical East Africa
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2026. 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 2026. 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

  • Kew Science Photographs

    • Copyright applied to individual images