Striga asiatica

Striga asiatica

Striga asiatica

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Lamiales
Classification System: APG IV Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Plantae Cladus: Angiosperms Cladus: Eudicots Cladus: Core eudicots Cladus: Asterids Cladus: Lamiids Ordo: Lamiales

Familia: Orobanchaceae
Tribus: Buchnereae
Genus: Striga
Species: Striga asiatica

Name

Striga asiatica (L.) Kuntze, 1891

Synonyms

• Homotypic
  • Buchnera asiatica L. in Sp. Pl.: 630 (1753)
• Heterotypic
  • Buchnera coccinea (Hook.) Benth. in Scroph. Ind.: 40 (1835), nom. illeg.
  • Campuleia coccinea Hook. in Exot. Fl. 3: t. 203 (1826)
  • Striga asiatica var. coccinea (Hook.) Bennet in Indian J. Forest. 5: 327 (1982)
  • Striga coccinea (Hook.) Benth. in Compan. Bot. Mag. 1: 364 (1836)
  • Striga eustriga Steud. in Nomencl. Bot., ed. 2, 2: 546 (1841)
  • Striga pusilla Hochst. ex Benth. in A.P.de Candolle, Prodr. 10: 503 (1846)
  • Striga zangebarica Klotzsch in W.C.H.Peters, Naturw. Reise Mossambique 6(Bot., 1): t. 35 (1861)

Distribution

Native distribution areas:

Continental: Africa Regional: Mascareñas Aldabra, Comoros, Mauritius, Rodrigues, Réunion, Seychelles Regional: Western Africa Angola, Benin, Cameroon, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Namibia, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone Regional: Central Africa Botswana, Burkina, Burundi, Central African Republic, Chad, Malawi, Mali, Rwanda, Zambia, Zaïre, Zimbabwe Regional: Southern Africa Cape Provinces, Free Statet, KwaZulu-Natal, Lesotho, Northern Provinces, Swaziland Regional: Northern Africa Egypt Regional: Eastern Africa Ethiopia, Kenya, Mozambique, Mozambique Channel Is., Somalia, Sudan, Uganda Regional: Western Indian Ocean Madagascar Continental: Asia-temperate Regional: Peninsular Arabia Oman, Saudi Arabia, Socotra, Yemen Introduced into: Chagos Archipelago, Jawa, North Carolina, South Carolina References: Brummitt, R.K. 2001. TDWG – World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2nd Edition

References

Primary references

• Kuntze, O. 1891. Revisio generum plantarum vascularium omnium atque cellularium multarum secundum leges nomenclaturae internationales cum enumeratione plantarum exoticarum in itinere mundi collectarum. Pars II. Pp. 377–1011. Arthur Felix, Leipzig [etc.]. BHL Reference page. : 2:466.

Additional references

• Figueiredo, E. & Smith, G.F. 2008. Plants of Angola / Plantas de Angola. Strelitzia 22: 1–279. South African National Botanical Institute, Pretoria. ISBN 978-1-919976-45-7. PDF. Reference page. 

Links

• Govaerts, R. et al. 2024. Striga asiatica in Kew Science Plants of the World Online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2024 November 02. Reference page. 
• International Plant Names Index. 2024. Striga asiatica. Published online. Accessed: November 02 2024.
• Hassler, M. 2024. World Ferns. Checklist of Ferns and Lycophytes of the World. . Striga asiatica Accessed: 02 November 2024.
• Tropicos.org 2024. Striga asiatica. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 02 November 2024.
• USDA, ARS, Germplasm Resources Information Network. Striga asiatica in the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN), U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service. Accessed: 07-Oct-06.

Vernacular names

English: Asiatic witchweed

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