Iridaceae
Sisyrinchium

Sisyrinchium micranthum Cav.

First published in Diss. 6: 345 (1788)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is Mexico to N. Argentina. It is an annual and grows primarily in the subtropical biome. It is used to treat unspecified medicinal disorders and as a poison and a medicine.

Distribution

Native to:

Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Bolivia, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Nicaragua, Panamá, Paraguay, Peru, Venezuela

Introduced into:

Alabama, Albania, Arkansas, Azores, China Southeast, Dominican Republic, East Himalaya, Easter Is., Fiji, Florida, Galápagos, Georgia, Hawaii, India, Iran, Japan, Korea, Louisiana, Madagascar, Malaya, Mauritius, Mississippi, New Caledonia, New South Wales, Norfolk Is., North Carolina, Puerto Rico, Queensland, Réunion, Samoa, Sardegna, South Australia, South Carolina, Spain, Tasmania, Texas, Tibet, Tubuai Is.

Synonyms

Homotypic Synonyms

Heterotypic Synonyms

Classification

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Publications

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

  • Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. & Strong, M.T. (2005). Monocotyledons and Gymnosperms of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Contributions from the United States National Herbarium 52: 1-415.
  • Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. & Strong, M.T. (2012). Catalogue of seed plants of the West Indies. Smithsonian Contributions to Botany 98: 1-1192.
  • Angely, J. in Angely, J. (1965). Flora Analítica do Paraná: 225-228. Phyton, Brazil.
  • Bono, G. (1996). Flora Y Vegetacion del Estado Táchira Venezuela: 587. Museo Regionaledi Scienze Naturali, Torino.
  • Brako, L. in Braco, L. & Zarucchi, J.L. (1993). Catalogue of the Flowering Plants and Gymnosperms of Peru: 573-576. Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis.
  • Dorr, L.J. et al. (2000). Catalogue of the Vascular Plants of Guaramacal National Park, Portuguesa and Trujillo States, Venezuela: 47-47. National Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C.
  • Espejo Serna, A. & López-Ferrari, A.R. (1998). Flora de Veracruz 105: 1-60. Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones sobre Recursos Bióticos, Xalapa, Veracruz.
  • Espejo Serna, A. & López-Ferrari, A.R. in Serna, A.D. & López-Ferrari, A.R. (1996). Monocotiledóneas Mexicanas: una sinopsis florística 6: 43-59. Mexico City : Consejo Nacional de la Flora de Mexico.
  • Foster, R.C. in Foster, R.C. (1958). Catalogue of the Ferns and Flowering Plants of Bolivia: 47-48. Gray Herbarium of Harvard University, U.S.A.
  • Goldblatt, P. & Heinrich, J.E. in D'Arcy, W.G. (1987). Fl. Panama Checklist and Index: 51. Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis.
  • Goldblatt, P. (2003). Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica 2: 603-612. Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St. Louis.
  • Henrich, J.E. & Goldblatt, P. (1994). Flora Mesoamericana 6: 71-80. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México, D.F.
  • Hokche, O., Berry, P.E. & Huber, O. (eds.) (2008). Nuevo Catálogo de la Flora Vascular de Venezuela: 1-859. Fundación Instituto Botánico de Venezuela.
  • Idárraga-Piedrahita, A., Ortiz, R.D.C., Callejas Posada, R. & Merello, M. (eds.) (2011). Flora de Antioquia: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares 2: 1-939. Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín.
  • Innes, C. (1985). The World of Iridaceae: 1-407. Holly Gare International Ltd., Ashington.
  • Johnston, I.M. (1938). The Species of Sisyrinchium in Uruguay, Paraguay and Brazil. Journal of the Arnold Arboretum 19: 376-399.
  • Jørgensen, P.M. in Jørgensen, P.M. & León-Yánes, S. (eds.) (1999). Catalogue of the Vascular Plants of Ecuador: 516-517. Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St. Louis.
  • Luteyn, J.L. (1999). Páramos: a checklist of plant diversity, geographical distribution and botanical literature: 111. New York Botanical Garden.
  • Marais, W. (1978). Flore des Mascareignes 177: 1-16. IRD Éditions, MSIRI, RBG-Kew, Paris.
  • Moscoso, R.M. in Moscoso, R.H. (1943). Catalogus Florae Domingensis 1: 86. New York.
  • Múlgura, M.E. (1996). Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares de la República Argentina 1: 205-217. Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis.
  • Nelson Sutherland, C.H. (2008). Catálogo de las plantes vasculares de Honduras. Espermatofitas: 1-1576. SERNA/Guaymuras, Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
  • Orchard, A.E. (ed.) (1994). Oceanic Islands 1. Flora of Australia 49: 1-681. Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra.
  • Smith, A.C. (1979). Flora Vitiensis Nova. A new flora for Fiji (Spermatophytes only) 1: 1-495. Pacific Tropical Botanical Garden, Lawai.
  • Woodson, R.E. & Schery, R.W. (1945). Flora of Panama Part 3, Fasc. 1. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 32: 34-43.
  • do Rocio Viera, E., dos Santos, É.P. & Tardivo, R.C. (2003). Flórula do Morro dos Perdidos, Sierra de Araçatuba, Paraná, Brasil: Iridaceae. Estudos de Biologia, Universidade Católica do Paraná 25(51): 17-29.

Catálogo de Plantas y Líquenes de Colombia

  • Bernal, R., Gradstein, S.R. & Celis, M. (eds.). 2015. Catálogo de plantas y líquenes de Colombia. Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá. http://catalogoplantasdecolombia.unal.edu.co

Useful Plants of Boyacá Project

  • GRIN National Genetic Resources Program http://www.ars-grin.gov in The State of the World’s Plants Report–2016. (2016). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew https://stateoftheworldsplants.org/2016/
  • Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humbodlt (2014). Plantas alimenticias y medicinales nativas de Colombia. 2567 registros, aportados por: Castellanos, C. (Contacto del recurso), Valderrama, N. (Creador del recurso, Autor), Castro, C. (Proveedor de metadatos), Bernal, Y. (Autor), García, N. (Autor). Versión 11.0. http://i2d.humboldt.org.co/ceiba/resource.do?r=ls_colombia_magnoliophyta_2014

Kew Backbone Distributions

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  • (2023). https://doi.org/10.17348/jbrit.v17.i1.1293. epublication.
  • (2024). https://www.researchgate.net/publication/378128808_ILLUSTRATED_FLORA_of_Albania_Update_101. epublication.
  • Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. & Strong, M.T. (2005). Monocotyledons and Gymnosperms of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Contributions from the United States National Herbarium 52: 1-415.
  • Angely, J. in Angely, J. (1965). Flora Analítica do Paraná: 225-228. Phyton, Brazil.
  • Brako, L. in Braco, L. & Zarucchi, J.L. (1993). Catalogue of the Flowering Plants and Gymnosperms of Peru: 573-576. Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis.
  • Cooke, D.A. (1986). Flora of Australia 46: i-xii, 1-247. Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra.
  • Dorr, L.J. et al. (2000). Catalogue of the Vascular Plants of Guaramacal National Park, Portuguesa and Trujillo States, Venezuela: 47-47. National Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C.
  • Espejo Serna, A. & López-Ferrari, A.R. in Serna, A.D. & López-Ferrari, A.R. (1996). Monocotiledóneas Mexicanas: una sinopsis florística 6: 43-59. Mexico City : Consejo Nacional de la Flora de Mexico.
  • Flora of North America Editorial Committee (2002). Flora of North America North of Mexico 26: 1-723. Oxford University Press, New York, Oxford.
  • Florence, J. & Hallé, N. (1986). Suite du catalogue des plantes a fleurs et Fougères des iles Australes. Rapa: 151-158. Direction des centres d'expérimentations nucléaires. Service mixte de contrôle biologique.
  • Goldblatt, P. (1991). Flore de Madagascar et des Comores (Plantes Vasculaires) 45: 3-45. Typographie Firmin-Didot et Cie., Paris.
  • Goldblatt, P. (2003). Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica 2: 603-612. Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St. Louis.
  • Henrich, J.E. & Goldblatt, P. (1994). Flora Mesoamericana 6: 71-80. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México, D.F.
  • Innes, C. (1985). The World of Iridaceae: 1-407. Holly Gare International Ltd., Ashington.
  • Jaramillo Díaz, P. & Guézou, A. (2017). CDF Checklist of Galapagos Vascular Plants - FCD Lista de especies de Plantas Vasculares de Galápagos http://www.darwinfoundation.org/datazone/checklists/vascular-plants/.
  • Johnston, I.M. (1938). The Species of Sisyrinchium in Uruguay, Paraguay and Brazil. Journal of the Arnold Arboretum 19: 376-399.
  • Jørgensen, P.M. in Jørgensen, P.M. & León-Yánes, S. (eds.) (1999). Catalogue of the Vascular Plants of Ecuador: 516-517. Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St. Louis.
  • Luteyn, J.L. (1999). Páramos: a checklist of plant diversity, geographical distribution and botanical literature: 111. New York Botanical Garden.
  • Marais, W. (1978). Flore des Mascareignes 177: 1-16. IRD Éditions, MSIRI, RBG-Kew, Paris.
  • Moscoso, R.M. in Moscoso, R.H. (1943). Catalogus Florae Domingensis 1: 86. New York.
  • Múlgura, M.E. (1996). Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares de la República Argentina 1: 205-217. Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis.
  • Nelson Sutherland, C.H. (2008). Catálogo de las plantes vasculares de Honduras. Espermatofitas: 1-1576. SERNA/Guaymuras, Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
  • Orchard, A.E. (ed.) (1994). Oceanic Islands 1. Flora of Australia 49: 1-681. Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra.
  • Schäfer, H. (2021). Flora of the Azores a field guide: 1-445. Margraf Publishers GmbH.
  • Smith, A.C. (1979). Flora Vitiensis Nova. A new flora for Fiji (Spermatophytes only) 1: 1-495. Pacific Tropical Botanical Garden, Lawai.
  • Verloove, F. & Sánchez Gullón, E. (2012). New records of interesting vascular plants (mainly xenophytes) in the Iberian Peninsula. II. Flora Mediterranea 22: 5-24.
  • Wagner, W.L., Herbst, D.R. & Sohmer, S.H. (1999). Manual of the Flowering Plants of Hawai'i, rev. ed., 2: 989-1918. University of Hawai'i Press, Bishop Museum Press.
  • Wang, S.L., Lan, X.Z. & Luo, J. (2012). New records from Tibet. Acta Botanica Boreali-Occidentalia Sinica 32: 1913-1914.
  • Zizka, G. (1991). Flowering plants of Easter island. Palmarum Hortus Francofurtensis 3: 1-108.
  • do Rocio Viera, E., dos Santos, É.P. & Tardivo, R.C. (2003). Flórula do Morro dos Perdidos, Sierra de Araçatuba, Paraná, Brasil: Iridaceae. Estudos de Biologia, Universidade Católica do Paraná 25(51): 17-29.

Useful Plants and Fungi of Colombia

  • Bernal, R., Gradstein, S.R., & Celis, M. (eds.). (2020). Catálogo de Plantas y Líquenes de Colombia. v1.1. Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Dataset/Checklist. https://doi.org/10.15472/7avdhn
  • Diazgranados et al. (2021). Catalogue of plants of Colombia. Useful Plants and Fungi of Colombia project. In prep.
  • Diazgranados, M., Allkin, B., Black N., Cámara-Leret, R., Canteiro C., Carretero J., Eastwood R., Hargreaves S., Hudson A., Milliken W., Nesbitt, M., Ondo, I., Patmore, K., Pironon, S., Turner, R., Ulian, T. (2020). World Checklist of Useful Plant Species. Produced by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Knowledge Network for Biocomplexity.
  • GBIF.org (2021). GBIF species matching tool. https://www.gbif.org/tools/species-lookup
  • GRIN (2021). Germplasm Resources Information Network from the United States Department of Agriculture. https://www.ars-grin.gov/
  • Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humbodlt (2014). Plantas alimenticias y medicinales nativas de Colombia. 2567 registros, aportados por: Castellanos, C. (Contacto del recurso), Valderrama, N. (Creador del recurso, Autor), Bernal, Y. (Autor), García, N. (Autor). http://i2d.humboldt.org.co/ceiba/resource.do?r=ls_colombia_magnoliophyta_2014
  • Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt (2019). Lista de especies vedadas por la resolución 213 de 1977. 8256 especies. http://i2d.humboldt.org.co/ceiba/resource.do?r=le_plantaspriorizadas_2019

Other Data

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

Date Reference Identified As Barcode Type Status Has image?
Friedmann, F. [454] Reunion K002991678 Yes
Hubbard, C.E. [4096] Australia K002991625 Yes
Rodway, F.A. [s.n.] Australia K002991621 Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] Mauritius K002991681 Yes
Rodway, F.A. [1591] Australia K002991627 Yes
s.coll. [14] Chile K002991669 Yes
Johnson, R.W. [2702A] Australia K002991638 Yes
Prentice, W. [s.n.] Australia K002991616 Yes
Shier, F.L. [s.n.] Australia K002991632 Yes
Nicholas, A.; Kreuter, U. [1206] South Africa K002991684 Yes
Spruce, R. [5025] Ecuador K000201301 Yes
[R. C. Wanghan] [686] Mauritius K002991676 Yes
Marais, W. [15109] Mauritius K002991677 Yes
Coveny, R.G.; Donabauer, Z.; Dunn, C. [12796] Australia K002991639 Yes
Rodway, F.A. [1591A] Australia K:SPC-23546.000 No
Constable, E.F. [16670] Australia K002991623 Yes
Cadet, T. [2821] Reunion K002991679 Yes
Johnson, R.W. [2702A] Australia K002991634 Yes
Schatz, G.E.; Klackenberg, J.; Baum, D. [1719] Madagascar K002991673 Yes
Ayres, P.B. [s.n.] Mauritius K002991675 Yes
Longman, H.A. [s.n.] Australia K002991635 Yes
Henderson, R.J. [4756] Australia K002991637 Yes
Melville, R. [5314B] New Zealand K002991651 Yes
[Woolle] [s.n.] Australia K002991618 Yes
Everist, S.L.; Webb, L.J. [1307] Australia K002991619 Yes
Clemens, M.S. [s.n.] Australia K002991630 Yes
Buchholz, J.T. [1296] New Caledonia K002991666 Yes
Kunze, F. [5482] Australia K002991624 Yes
MacKee, H.S. [27562] New Caledonia K002991668 Yes
Thomson, E. [122] Australia K002991620 Yes
Vesco, M. [s.n.] Mauritius K002991682 Yes
Stewart, J. [1799] South Africa K002991685 Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] Australia K002991629 Yes
Hubbard, C.E. [4544] Australia K002991626 Yes
Constable, E.F. [1370] Australia K002991636 Yes
[M. Boulon] [s.n.] Mauritius K002991680 Yes
Pedley, L. [477] Australia K002991631 Yes
Hubbard, C.E. [4149] Australia K002991622 Yes
s.coll. [19] Australia K002991617 Yes
Morrison, A. [5184] Australia K002991615 Yes
Schlechter, R. [14715] New Caledonia K002991667 Yes
Pettersson, B.; NIlsson, L.A. [391] Madagascar K002991672 Yes
Rodway, F.A. [584] Australia K002991628 Yes
{Rouy} [2157] New Caledonia K002991665 Yes
Spruce, R. [5025] Ecuador K000201300 Yes
MacKee, H.S. [8811] Australia K002991633 Yes
Bangerter, E.B. [5441] New Zealand Sisyrinchium iridifolium K002991650 Yes
Bengston, M. [S161] Australia Sisyrinchium iridifolium K002991644 Yes
Melville, R. [2025] Australia Sisyrinchium iridifolium K002991645 Yes
Coveny, R.G.; Seur, J. [10341] Australia Sisyrinchium iridifolium K002991646 Yes

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