Rubiaceae
Spermacoce

Spermacoce ocymifolia Willd.

First published in J.J.Roemer & J.A.Schultes, Syst. Veg., ed. 15[bis]. 3: 530 (1819)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is S. Mexico to Tropical America. It is a subshrub and grows primarily in the seasonally dry tropical biome. It is used as a medicine.

Distribution

Native to:

Aruba, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Cayman Is., Central American Pac, Chile North, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Netherlands Antilles, Nicaragua, Panamá, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Suriname, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela, Windward Is.

Introduced into:

Borneo, Jawa, Malaya, Maluku, New Guinea, Solomon Is., Sri Lanka, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Vietnam

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. (2012). Catalogue of seed plants of the West Indies. Smithsonian Contributions to Botany 98: 1-1192.
  • Davidse, G. & al. (eds.) (2012). Flora Mesoamericana 4(2): 1-533. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México, D.F.
  • Delprete, P.G. & Cortés-B., R. (2006 publ. 2007). A synopsis of the Rubiaceae of the states of Mato Grosso and Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil, with a key to genera, and a preliminary species list. Revista de Biologia Neotropical 3: 13-96.
  • Delprete, P.G. (2010). Rubiaceae. Flora dos estados de Goiás e Tocantins 40: 1-1610. Universidade Federal de Goiás.
  • Delprete, P.G., Smith, L.B., Klein, R.M. (2005). Flora Ilustrada Catarinense 2: 349-842. Herbário "Barbosa Rodrigues", Atají, Brasil.
  • Govaerts, R. (2003). World Checklist of Selected Plant Families Database in ACCESS: 1-216203. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  • Hammel, B.E., Grayum, M.H., Herrera, C. & Zamora, N. (eds.) (2014). Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica 7: 1-840. Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St. Louis.
  • 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.
  • Middleton, J.D. (ed.) (2019). Flora of Singapore 13: 1-654. Singapore Botanic Gardens.
  • Nelson Sutherland, C.H. (2008). Catálogo de las plantes vasculares de Honduras. Espermatofitas: 1-1576. SERNA/Guaymuras, Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
  • Rodrigues de Moraes, P.L., De Smedt, S. & Hjertson, M. (2014). Notes on the Brazilian plants collected by Georg Wilhelm Freyreiss and published by Carl Peter Thunberg in Plantarum Brasiliensium. Harvard Papers in Botany 19: 123-132.

An alternative taxonomy had been proposed by the following authorities:

  • Berry, P.E., Yatskievych, K. & Holst, B.K. (eds.) in Steyermark, J., Berry, P.E., Holts, B.K. (eds). (2004). Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana 8: 1-874. Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis. [Cited as Diodia ocymifolia.]
  • Borhidi, A. (2012). Rubiáceas de México, ed. 2: 1-608. Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest. [Cited as Hemidiodia ocimifolia.]

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

Kew Backbone Distributions

  • Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. & Strong, M.T. (2012). Catalogue of seed plants of the West Indies. Smithsonian Contributions to Botany 98: 1-1192.
  • Beaman, J.H. & Anderson, C. (2004). The Plants of Mount Kinabalu 5: 1-609. Natural history publications (Borneo), Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia.
  • Berry, P.E., Yatskievych, K. & Holst, B.K. (eds.) in Steyermark, J., Berry, P.E., Holts, B.K. (eds). (2004). Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana 8: 1-874. Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis.
  • Delprete, P.G., Smith, L.B., Klein, R.M. (2005). Flora Ilustrada Catarinense 2: 349-842. Herbário "Barbosa Rodrigues", Atají, Brasil.
  • Hộ, P.-H. (2000). Câycỏ Việtnam. An Illustrated flora of Vietnam, ed. 2, 3: 1-1020. Pham-hoang Ho, Montréal.
  • Nelson Sutherland, C.H. (2008). Catálogo de las plantes vasculares de Honduras. Espermatofitas: 1-1576. SERNA/Guaymuras, Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
  • Ruhsam, M. (2005). Survey of all the Rubiaceae specimens at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

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
  • 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
  • Medicinal Plant Names Services (MPNS) v.10 (2021); http://mpns.kew.org/

Other Data

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

Date Reference Identified As Barcode Type Status Has image?
Jan 1, 2017 Mohd Hairul et al. [FRI 59971] Malaya K001273743 No
Jun 17, 1996 Venezuela K001435630 Yes
Aug 1, 1994 van Rooden, J.; ter Welle, B.J.H.; Topper, S.M.C. [621] Colombia K001435643 Yes
Nov 1, 1944 Venezuela K001435627 Yes
Mar 1, 1935 Ecuador K001435645 Yes
Bolivia K001435611 Yes
n/a K001435612 Yes
n/a K001435613 Yes
n/a K001435614 Yes
Venezuela K001435628 Yes
Venezuela K001435629 Yes
Venezuela K001435631 Yes
Bolivia K001435632 Yes
Bolivia K001435633 Yes
Peru K001435634 Yes
Panama K001435635 Yes
Panama K001435636 Yes
Panama K001435637 Yes
Panama K001435638 Yes
Panama K001435639 Yes
Colombia K001435640 Yes
Colombia K001435641 Yes
Colombia K001435642 Yes
van Rooden, J.; ter Welle, B.J.H.; Topper, S.M.C. [621], Colombia K001435643 Yes
Ecuador K001435644 Yes
Bolivia K001435646 Yes
Bolivia K001435647 Yes
Venezuela K001435648 Yes
Venezuela K001435649 Yes
Venezuela k001435650 Yes
Venezuela k001435651 Yes
Venezuela k001435652 Yes
Venezuela k001435653 Yes
Peru K001435654 Yes
Peru K001435655 Yes
Peru K001435656 Yes
Peru K001435657 Yes
Peru K001435658 Yes
Peru K001435659 Yes
Peru K001435660 Yes
Redden, K.M. [6142] Guyana Diodia ocymifolia K001577044 Yes
Oct 1, 1998 Harley, R.M.; Renvoize, S.A.; Erskine, C.M.; Brighton, C.A.; Pinheiro, R. [17172] Brazil Borreria ocymifolia K000016197 No
Oct 1, 1998 Oliveira, M.; Lira, S.S.; Tscha, M.; Marcon, A.B. [75] Brazil Borreria ocymifolia K000016194 No
Oct 1, 1998 Gardner [1036] Brazil Borreria ocymifolia K000016192 Yes
Oct 1, 1998 Felix, L.P. [EAN6579] Brazil Borreria ocymifolia K000016199 Yes
Oct 1, 1998 Felix, L.P.; Dorneles, G.V. [1557] Brazil Borreria ocymifolia K000016198 Yes
Oct 1, 1998 [158] Brazil Borreria ocymifolia K000016196 No
Oct 1, 1998 Harley, R.M.; Mayo, S.J.; Storr, R.M.; dos Santos, T.S.; Pinheiro, R.S. [17875] Brazil Borreria ocymifolia K000016195 No
Oct 1, 1998 Salzmann Brazil Borreria ocymifolia K000016191 Yes
Oct 1, 1998 Marconi, A.B.; Oliveira, M. [68] Brazil Borreria ocymifolia K000016193 No
Aug 1, 1994 Boog, W. [s.n.] Brazil Borreria ocymifolia K001212365 Yes
Boog, W. [s.n.] Brazil Borreria ocymifolia K001212364 Yes
Mattos Silva, L.A.; Hage, J.L.; dos Santos, E.B. [2331] Brazil Borreria ocymifolia K000016448 No

Sources

  • Angiosperm Extinction Risk Predictions v1

    • Angiosperm Threat Predictions
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

  • Catálogo de Plantas y Líquenes de Colombia

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

  • Colombian resources for Plants made Accessible

    • ColPlantA 2021. Published on the Internet at http://colplanta.org
    • https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

  • Herbarium Catalogue Specimens

    • Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. 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 2024. 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

  • Useful Plants and Fungi of Colombia

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