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Tropical Pokeweed

Phytolacca icosandra L.

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Some authors (e.g., J. I. Davis 1985) include Phytolacca octandra in the synonymy of P. icosandra.
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Description

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Plants to 3 m. Leaves: petiole 0.5-6 cm; blade elliptic to obovate or rarely lanceolate, to 30 × 15 cm, base obtuse to attenuate, apex acute. Inflorescences spikes or spikelike, surpassing subtending leaves, to 30 cm; peduncle to 10 cm; pedicel 0.5-2 mm. Flowers: sepals 5, white or pink to pale reddish, broadly elliptic, equal, to 3 × 2 mm; stamens (8-)10-22(-30), usually in 2 whorls; carpels mostly 6-10, connate; ovary 6-10-loculed. Berries purple-black, 7-8 mm diam. Seeds black, thickly lenticular, 2.5-3 mm, shiny.
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Distribution

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introduced; Ariz., Calif., Md.; Mexico; West Indies; Central America; South America.
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Flowering/Fruiting

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Flowering summer-winter.
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Habitat

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Disturbed areas, chrome ore piles; 10-1800m.
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Derivation of specific name

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octandra: with 8 stamens
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Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Phytolacca octandra L. Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=122700
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A bushy perennial, up to 1 m.
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Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Phytolacca octandra L. Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=122700
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Frequency

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Frequent
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Worldwide distribution

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Native to South America but now naturalized throughout the tropical regions of the world.
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Comprehensive Description

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Phytolacca icosandra L. Syst. Xat. ed. 10. 1040. 1759
Phytolacca americana L. Sp. PI. 441. 1753.
Phytolacca octandra L. Sp. PI. ed. 2. 631. 1762.
Phytolacca mexicana Mill. Gard. Diet. ed. 8. Phytolacca no. 2. 1768.
Phytolacca triquetra Moench. Meth. Suppl. 107. 1802.
Phytolacca sessiliflora Kunth & Bouche, Ind. Sem. Hort. Berol. 1848: 15. 1S49.— Ann Sci. Xat. III.
11:230. 1849. Phytolacca octandra grandiflora Moq. in DC. Prodr. 13 : : 32. 1849. Phytolacca octandra an gusti folia Moq. in DC. Prodr. 13 ! : 32. 1849. Phytolacca longespica Moq. in DC. Prodr. 13 ! : 33. 1849. ^Phytolacca purpurascens Braun & Bouche, Ind. Sem. Hort. Berol. 1851: 13. 1852. — Linnaea 25:
297. 1853. Phytolacca Nova-Hispania Millsp. Field Mus. Publ. Bot. 2: 41. 1900. Phytolacca icosandra angustitepala H. Wait, in Engler. Pflanzenreich 4" 3 : 61. 1909. Phytolacca icosandra sessiliflora H. Walt, in Engler, Pflanzenreich 4 83 : 61. 1909.
An herb, up to 2.5 m. or more high, with angled branches; leaf-blades narrowly elliptic to ovate-elliptic or oval, 7-20 cm. long, 2.5-9.5 cm. broad, sometimes larger, acute to acuminate and often mucronate at the apex, narrowed at the base; petioles 1.5-6 cm. long, grooved above; racemes peduncled, 7-25 cm. long; rachis usually pubescent; pedicels 2-5 mm. long, or flowers subsessile; bracts and bractlets subulate; sepals greenish-white or purplish, elliptic to ovate or oval, 2.5-3.2 mm. long, 1.5-3 mm. broad, persistent in fruit; stamens 8-20; filaments 2 mm. long; anthers elliptic, 1 mm. long; ovary subglobose, 6-10-carpellary ; styles cylindric, recurved; berry depressed-globose, 6-8 mm. in diameter; seed obliquely obpyriform, 2.2-2.S mm. long, black, shining.
Type locality: Said to have come from Malabar.
Distribution: West Indies; Mexico; Central America; also in South America; recorded from the Old World.
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Percy Wilson, Per Axel Rydberg. 1932. CHENOPODIALES. North American flora. vol 21(4). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
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Phytolacca icosandra ( Asturian )

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Phytolacca icosandra, ye una especie de planta fanerógama que s'atopa nos neotrópicos ya introduzse nes zones más templaes de los EE.XX. occidental.

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Descripción

Algama un tamañu d'hasta 3 m d'altor, con fueyes de 10-20 cm por 9-14 cm. Les flores producir en recímanos de 10-15 cm de llargu, cada for con 6-10 mm de diámetru, con 8-20 estames ( icosandra significa "venti estames"). El frutu ye una baga negra de 5-8 mm de diámetru.

Propiedaes

La cura a base de yerbes fungosan derivar d'esta planta.

Taxonomía

Phytolacca icosandra describióse por Carlos Linneo y espublizóse en Systema Naturae, Editio Decima 2: 1040. 1759.[1]

Etimoloxía

Phytolacca: nome xenéricu que deriva de les pallabres griegues: φυτόν (phyton), que significa "planta", y la pallabra llatína lacca = "un coloráu tinte".[2]

icosandra: epítetu llatín que significa "con venti estames".

Sinonimia
  • Phytolacca altamiranii Ram.Goyena
  • Phytolacca icosandra var. sessiliflora (O. Hoffm.) H. Walter
  • Phytolacca malabarica Crantz
  • Phytolacca octandra var. angustifolia Moq.
  • Phytolacca purpurascens A. Braun & Bouché
  • Phytolacca sessiliflora Kunth & C.D. Bouché
  • Phytolacca venezuelensis O.C.Schmidt
  • Sarcoca icosandra (L.) Raf.[3]

Nome común

  • Guaba, altasara, atusara, cargamanta, yerba de culiebra, xabonucu, maíz de perru, matavieja, sabugu o yerba de culiebra.[4]

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Referencies

  1. «Phytolacca icosandra». Tropicos.org. Missouri Botanical Garden. Consultáu'l 5 de xineru de 2015.
  2. Quattrocchi, Umberto (2000). CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names 3 M-Q. CRC Press, 2065. ISBN 978-0-8493-2677-6.
  3. «Phytolacca icosandra». The Plant List. Consultáu'l 28 de xunu de 2015.
  4. Nomes comunes de les plantes de Colombia

Bibliografía

  1. CONABIO. 2009. Catálogu taxonómicu d'especies de Méxicu. 1. In Capital Nat. Méxicu. CONABIO, Mexico City.
  2. Correa A., M.D., C. Galdames & M. Stapf. 2004. Cat. Pl. Vasc. Panamá 1–599. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panamá.
  3. Eliasson, O. H. 1993. 35A. Phytolaccaceae. 46: 1–43. In G. W. Harling & B. B. Sparre (eds.) Fl. Ecuador. University of Göteborg & Swedish Museum of Natural History, Göteborg & Stockholm.
  4. Flora of North America Editorial Committee, y. 2003. Magnoliophyta: Caryophyllidae, part 1. Fl. N. Amer. 4: i–xxiv, 1–559.
  5. Hokche, O., P. Y. Berry & O. Huber. (eds.) 2008. Nuevu Cat. Fl. Vasc. Venez. 1–859. Fundación Instituto Botánicu de Venezuela, Caracas.
  6. Idárraga-Piedrahita, A., R. D. C. Ortiz, R. Caleyes Posada & M. Merello. (eds.) 2011. Fl. Antioquia: Cat. 2: 9–939. Universidá d'Antioquia, Medellín.
  7. Jørgensen, P. M. & C. Ulloa Ulloa. 1994. Seed plants of the high Andes of Ecuador—A checklist. AAU Rep. 34: 1–443.

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Phytolacca icosandra

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Phytolacca icosandra, sometimes known as button pokeweed[1] or tropical pokeweed,[2] is a species of flowering plant found in the neotropics and introduced into the warmer areas of the western USA.

It reaches up to 3 m in height, with leaves of 10–20 cm by 9–14 cm. The flowers are produced in racemes 10–15 cm long, each flower 5–10 mm diameter, with 8-20 stamens (icosandra means "twenty stamens"). The fruit is a black berry, 5–8 mm diameter.

References

  1. ^ BSBI List 2007 (xls). Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland. Archived from the original (xls) on 2015-06-26. Retrieved 2014-10-17.
  2. ^ USDA, NRCS (n.d.). "Phytolacca icosandra". The PLANTS Database (plants.usda.gov). Greensboro, North Carolina: National Plant Data Team. Retrieved 31 January 2016.

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Phytolacca icosandra, sometimes known as button pokeweed or tropical pokeweed, is a species of flowering plant found in the neotropics and introduced into the warmer areas of the western USA.

It reaches up to 3 m in height, with leaves of 10–20 cm by 9–14 cm. The flowers are produced in racemes 10–15 cm long, each flower 5–10 mm diameter, with 8-20 stamens (icosandra means "twenty stamens"). The fruit is a black berry, 5–8 mm diameter.

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Phytolacca octandra ( Spanish; Castilian )

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La verbachina[1]​ (Phytolacca octandra) es una especie de planta fanerógama que se encuentra en los neotrópicos.

Descripción

Son plantas que alcanzan un tamaño de 0.2–1 m de alto. Las hojas de 6–15 cm de largo y 2–6 cm de ancho, agudas a acuminadas en el ápice, acuminadas a atenuadas en la base. Las inflorescencias en racimos de 5–15 cm de largo, con ejes pubescentes, pedicelos 1–2 mm de largo; sépalos blancos a rojo-morados, 2.2–3 mm de largo; estambres 7–8, en 1 verticilo; ovario con 7–8 carpelos completamente connados.[2]

Taxonomía

Phytolacca octandra fue descrita por Carlos Linneo y publicado en Species Plantarum, Editio Secunda 1: 631. 1762.[2]

Etimología

Phytolacca: nombre genérico que deriva de las palabras griegas: φυτόν (phyton), que significa "planta", y la palabra latína lacca = "un rojo tinte".[3]

octandra: epíteto latíno que significa "con ocho estambres".

Sinonimia
  • Phytolacca americana var. mexicana L.[4]

Referencias

  1. Colmeiro, Miguel: «Diccionario de los diversos nombres vulgares de muchas plantas usuales ó notables del antiguo y nuevo mundo», Madrid, 1871.
  2. a b «Phytolacca octandra». Tropicos.org. Missouri Botanical Garden. Consultado el 5 de enero de 2015.
  3. Quattrocchi, Umberto (2000). CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names. 3 M-Q. CRC Press. p. 2065. ISBN 978-0-8493-2677-6.
  4. «Phytolacca octandra». The Plant List. Consultado el 28 de junio de 2015.
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La verbachina​ (Phytolacca octandra) es una especie de planta fanerógama que se encuentra en los neotrópicos.

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