Description
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Herbs, perennial, prostrate to ascending. Stems 30-60 cm, densely pubescent; old branches with nodes, furrowed. Stipules opposite, 2.5-4.5 cm. Leaves with 8-14 leaflets; petiole very short; leaflet blades oblong to obovate-oblong, 6-15 × 3-6 mm, abaxially pilose, adaxially villous, base oblique, apex obtuse to acute. Flower ca. 3 cm in diam. Pedicel equal to or longer than leaves. Sepals lanceolate, ca. 8 mm, villous. Petals obovate-oblong, ca. 2 cm. Ovary yellowish hispid. Schizocarp 0.8-1.2 cm, with 4 spines or murications. Fl. May-Jun. 2n = 12, 24, 36.
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Habitat & Distribution
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Beaches, sandy areas along seashores or river margins; usually near sea level. Hainan, Taiwan, Yunnan (along Yuan Jiang) [throughout tropics].
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Synonym
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Tribulus taiwanensis T. C. Huang & T. H. Hsieh.
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Comprehensive Description
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Tribulus cistoides L. Sp. PI. 387. 1753
Tribulus lerreslris cistoides Oliver, Fl. Trop. Africa 1 : 284. 1868.
A diffusely procumbent herb with thick woody root ; stems pubescent with appressed or spreading hairs, many-striate, becoming glabrate; stipules subulate, 5-8 mm. long, at length caducous; petioles shorter than the leaflets; leaves 1-5 cm. long; leaflets 6-8 pairs, obliquely oblong or elliptic, acutish or obtuse, often mucronulate, 4-15 mm. long, silkypubescent beneath, the terminal pair somewhat smaller ; peduncles produced from the axils of the alternate smaller leaves, 3-4 cm. long ; sepals lanceolate, acuminate, half as long as the petals, silky-pubescent, caducous; petals yellow, about 2 cm. long, 1-2 cm. broad; ovary hirsute ; carpels 3-5-seeded, tuberculate, each with 2 large stout divergent spines and scattered smaller ones.
Type locality : Tropical America.
Distribution : Georgia, Florida, Texas, West Indies, Mexico, and Central and South America.
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- John Kunkel Small, Lenda Tracy Hanks, Nathaniel Lord Britton. 1907. GERANIALES, GERANIACEAE, OXALIDACEAE, LINACEAE, ERYTHROXYLACEAE. North American flora. vol 25(1). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
Comprehensive Description
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Tribulus alacranensis Milisp. Field Columb. Mus. Publ Bot. 2 : 54. 1900. Perennial runner from a long ligneous rootstock ; stems many, ligneous, 5-25 dm. long, thick, 4-7 mm. in diameter, many-striate ; joints all about 1.5 cm. long; nodes rough with the withered persistent bracts and stipules of deciduous petioles ; branchlets infrequent along the branches, mainly aggregated at the ends, appressed silvery-hirsute or tomentulose ; stipules linear or subulate, acute, commonly the length of the petiole ; petioles 5-10 mm. long; leaves 2-5 cm. long, densely silvery -hirsute or tomentose ; leaflets 4-8 pairs, obliquely oblong or elliptic-oblong, 10-15 mm. long, 4-5 mm. wide, apiculate ; flowers terminal, closing early in the sun ; petals bright-yellow, 1-1.5 cm. long; anthers 2.5-3 mm. long, oblong ; ovary clothed with long straight hyaline setae that persist on the mature fruit; fruit 7-8 mm. long; carpels truncate, somewhat tuberculate, 4-6-spiued, the main pair divergent, the apical pair short.
Type locality : Pajaros Island, Alacran Shoal, Gulf of Mexico. Distribution: Allison, Pajaros, and Perez Islands, off Yucatan.
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- John Kunkel Small, Lenda Tracy Hanks, Nathaniel Lord Britton. 1907. GERANIALES, GERANIACEAE, OXALIDACEAE, LINACEAE, ERYTHROXYLACEAE. North American flora. vol 25(1). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
Tribulus cistoides
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Tribulus cistoides -
MHNT
Tribulus cistoides, also called wanglo (in Aruba),[3] the Jamaican feverplant[4] or puncture vine, is a species of flowering plant in the family Zygophyllaceae, which is widely distributed in tropical and subtropical regions.
Habitat
Tribulus Cistoides, known locally in Mexico as “Abrojo de tierra caliente” (thistle of the hot country), grows in Central, South, and the southern part of North America. [5] It survives well in arid low land close to the shore and where these is sand or loose soil is present. This is also why it may survive in urban environments in or by the gutters of roads, as there may be loose soil nearby. [6]
References
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^ Field Columbian Museum (1916). "Vegetation of Alacran Reef". Botanical Series. The Museum. 2.
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^ "Tribulus cistoides L.". World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 9 March 2014 – via The Plant List. Note that this website has been superseded by World Flora Online
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^ "Cockle Corn Tribulus cistoides". Dutch Caribbean Species Register. Retrieved 11 August 2021.
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^ USDA, NRCS (n.d.). "Tribulus cistoides". The PLANTS Database (plants.usda.gov). Greensboro, North Carolina: National Plant Data Team. Retrieved 14 December 2015.
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^ Achenbach, H., Hübner, H., Brandt, W., & Reiter, M. (1994). Cardioactive steroid saponins and other constituents from the aerial parts of Tribulus CISTOIDES☆. Phytochemistry, 35(6), 1527–1543. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0031-9422(00)86890-9
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^ Abbott, I., Abbott, L. K., & Grant, P. R. (1977). Comparative ecology of Galápagos ground ginches (Geospiza Gould): Evaluation of the importance of floristic diversity and interspecific competition. Ecological Monographs, 47, 151–184. https://doi. org/10.2307/1942615
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Tribulus cistoides: Brief Summary
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Tribulus cistoides -
MHNT Tribulus cistoides, also called wanglo (in Aruba), the Jamaican feverplant or puncture vine, is a species of flowering plant in the family Zygophyllaceae, which is widely distributed in tropical and subtropical regions.
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