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Commelina benghalensis L.
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The species is native to tropical and subtropical Asia and Africa (Cook 1996, eFloras 2011), including Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Bhutan, India, Nepal, China, Japan, Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, Viet Nam, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Pakistan. The plant has also been widely introduced beyond its range to the southern eastern United States, Hawaii, Cuba, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, Martinique and Barbados.
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Southeast Egypt, tropical Africa, Mauritius, Arabia, Socotra, India, Sumatra, Java.
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"Red List Category & Criteria: Least Concern ver 3.1 Year Assessed: 2010 Assessor/s: Rehel, S. Reviewer/s: Narasimhan, D., Ravikumar, K. & Juffe Bignoli, D. Contributors: Molur, S. Justification: Commelina benghalensis is a native species to tropical and subtropical Asia and Africa. The plant has also been widely introduced in many countries. The species is common and locally abundant, and the plant is categorized as Least Concern. Conservation Actions: Conservation of the species has not been reported."
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Rights holder/Author | "Molur et al, 2011", IUCN and ZOO 2011, India Biodiversity Portal |
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Herbs, annual. Roots thin, rhizomes short, subterranean, bearing cleistogamous flowers produced from base of plant. Stems ascending to decumbent or occasionally scrambling. Leaves: leaf sheaths, not auriculate, often with red hairs at summit; blade ovate to lanceolate-elliptic, (1--)2--9(--11) ´ 1--3(--4.5) cm, apex rounded, obtuse or acute, pubescent. Inflorescences: distal cyme often exserted and 1-flowered, sometimes vestigial; spathes often clustered, subsessile (peduncles 1--3.5 mm), funnelform, 0.5--1.5(--2) cm, margins connate basally, pubescent. Flowers: chasmogamous flowers bisexual and staminate, subterranean cleistogamous flowers bisexual; petals of staminate flowers all blue (rarely lilac), proximal smaller; lateral stamen filaments not winged; staminodes 2--3; antherodes yellow, cruciform; pollen white; medial stamen pollen yellow. Capsules 3-locular, 2-valved, 4--6 mm. Seeds 5, brown or blackish, seeds of adaxial locule 1.7--2.5 mm, shallowly reticulate, farinose. 2n = 22.
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Red List Criteria
Year Assessed
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History
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2013Least Concern
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2011Least Concern
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2010Least Concern(IUCN 2011.1)
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Comments: Native in Paleotropics, naturalized in Neotropics, northward into southern USA (FNA, review draft, 5/98).
Flowering class: Monocot Habit: Herb
"Diffuse herbs, rooting at lower nodes; rootstock with cleistogamous flowers. Leaves 3-5 x 2-3.5 cm, ovate or elliptic-ovate, base rounded or subtruncate, apex obtuse or acute, pubescent, margin ciliate; petiole to 8 mm long; sheath to 1.5 cm long, apex with rufous hairs. Spathe c. 1.5 cm across, funnel-shaped, truncate at apex, pubescent. Sepals subequal, c. 2.5 mm long; outer ones linear; inner ones orbicular. Petals blue, larger ones c. 4 x 4.5 mm, broadly ovate. Stamens 3; staminodes 2. Ovary to 1mm long. Capsule to 5 mm long, ellipsoid, 3-celled. Seeds 5, pitted."
United States
Rounded National Status Rank: NNA - Not Applicable
"Habit: A small, prostrate, spreading herb, upto 70cm."
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