Common name
English: Climbing Dayflower
Mandarin: 节节草 (jie jie cao)
Classification
Kingdom: Plantae (2715)
Phylum: Tracheophyta (2630)
Class: Liliopsida (397)
Order: Commelinales (22)
Family: Commelinaceae (22)(family description)
Genus: Commelina (5)
Epithet: diffusa Burm. f. (3)
Synonyms: Commelina agraria Kunth, Commelina aquatica J.K.Morton, Commelina caespitosa Roxb.
agraria => of the land, growing in fields
aquatica => living in water
caespitosa => growing in dense tufts
diffusa => spread about, wildly or loosely spreading
Characteristics
Climate: tropical
Habitat: hydrophytic
Habit: herb
Flower colour: blue, white
External links
Check for Commelina diffusa at
World Flora Online, GBIF or IPNI- [230] Commelina diffusa - Pacific Island Ecosystems at Risk project (PIER)
- [1616] Commelina diffusa - Flora of China @ efloras.org
Literature
- [12] Dokosi, O.B. (1998): Herbs of Ghana. Ghana University Press, Accra, Ghana.
- [13] Sauerborn E., Sauerborn J. (1985): Wichtige Unkrautarten der Tropen und Subtropen. Verlag Josef Margraf, Weikersheim, Germany.