Sclerocarpus Jacq.

First published in J.A.Murray (ed.), Syst. Veg., ed. 14.: 783 (1784)
This genus is accepted
The native range of this genus is Africa, Arabian Peninsula Indian Subcontinent, Texas to Venezuela.

Distribution

Native to:

Angola, Belize, Benin, Botswana, Burkina, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Chad, Colombia, Congo, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guatemala, Guinea-Bissau, Honduras, India, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Mozambique, Namibia, Nepal, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Oman, Pakistan, Panamá, Senegal, Somalia, Sudan, Texas, Togo, Venezuela, West Himalaya, Yemen, Zambia, Zaïre, Zimbabwe

Introduced into:

Leeward Is., Puerto Rico, Tibet

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

  • Roskov Y. & al. (eds.) (2018). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands.

Flora of West Tropical Africa

  • —F.T.A. 3: 373.

Flora of Tropical East Africa

  • Syst. Veg. ed. 14: 783 (1784)

Other Data

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

Sources

  • Flora of Tropical East Africa

    • Flora of Tropical East Africa
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0
  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2023. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2022 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2023. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2022 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0