Petiveria alliacea L., Sp. Pl. 342 1753. (Syn. Mapa graveolens Vell.; Petiveria alliacea var. grandifolia Moq.; Petiveria alliacea var. octandra (L.) Moq.; Petiveria corrientina Rojas; Petiveria foetida Salisb. ; Petiveria hexandria Sessé & Moc.; Petiveria ochroleuca Moq.; Petiveria octandra L.; Petiveria paraguayensis D.Parodi);
USA (Florida, Texas), Bahamas, Cuba, Hispaniola, Puerto Rico, Virgin Isl.
(Guana, St. Croix, St. John, St. Thomas, Tortola), Lesser Antilles (Antigua, Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, Grenadines, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Montserrat, Saba, St. Barthelemy, St. Eustatius, St. Kitts, St. Lucia, St. Martin, St. Vincent), Trinidad, Tobago, Isla Margarita, Costa Rica, Peru, Argentina (Chaco, Corrientes, Entre Rios, Formosa, Jujuy, Misiones, Salta, Santiago del Estero, Santa Fe, Tucuman), S-Brazil (Parana, Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina), Paraguay (Alto Paraguay, Alto Parana, Caaguazu, Caazapa, Canindeyu, Central, Cordillera, Guaira, Paraguari), Uruguay (Artigas, Salto), Bolivia (Beni, Chuquisaca, La Paz, Pando, Santa Cruz, Tarija), Venezuela (Aragua, Bolivar, Carabobo, Cojedes, Delta Amacuro, Distrito Federal, Falcon, Guarico, Lara, Merida, Miranda, Nueva Esparta, Portuguesa, Sucre, Yaracuy, Zulia), N-Brazil (Acre), Nicaragua, Ecuador, Guyana, Surinam, French Guiana, Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Panama, Colombia (Amazonas, Antioquia, Bolvar, Caldas, Caquet, Cauca, Cesar, Choc, Crdoba, Cundinamarca, La Guajira, Magdalena, Meta, Nario, Putumayo, Risaralda, San Andrs, Providencia y Santa Catalina, Santander, Sucre, Tolima, Valle), Mexico (Baja California Sur, Campeche, Chiapas, Chihuahua, Colima, Durango, Guanajuato, Guerrero, Hidalgo, Jalisco, Mexico State, Michoacan, Morelos, Nayarit, Oaxaca, Puebla, Queretaro, Quintana Roo, San Luis Potosi, Sinaloa, Sonora, Tabasco, Tamaulipas, Veracruz, Yucatan), Java (I), trop. Asia (I), Sri Lanka (I), Sao Tome (I), Benin (I) as per Catalogue of Life; Guinea Henweed, Anamu, Garlic weed;
Bot. name: Petiveria alliacea,
Family: Phytolaccaceae Common name: Guinea-hen-weed Location: Veer Jijamata Udyan Dt :03-01-2010
Rivinia humilis: Original thread – …met … at Rani Baug on 9 FEB 11
The original thread had multiple images posted as links.
..Am taking the liberty to split the thread to clear a doubt. ‘… shrub flowering: Rivina humilis …
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dinesh_valke/5432851633/’<http://www.google.com/url?sa=D&q=http://www.flickr.com/photos/dinesh_…> … Could you please consider Petiveria alliacea instead of Rivina humilis. Also, both are listed as herbs in Flora of Maharashtra. – …. immense thanks for pointing out the wrong identification. Indeed Petiveria alliacea. References:
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