Cuphea P.Browne

Native to:

Alabama, Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Argentina South, Arizona, Arkansas, Bahamas, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Colombia, Connecticut, Costa Rica, Cuba, Delaware, District of Columbia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Florida, French Guiana, Galápagos, Georgia, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Jamaica, Kansas, Kentucky, Leeward Is., Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Nicaragua, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Panamá, Paraguay, Pennsylvania, Peru, Puerto Rico, South Carolina, Suriname, Tennessee, Texas, Trinidad-Tobago, Uruguay, Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia, Windward Is.

Introduced into:

Assam, Azores, Bangladesh, Borneo, Cameroon, Caroline Is., China Southeast, Cook Is., East Himalaya, Fiji, Great Britain, Guinea, Hawaii, Jawa, Kenya, Lesser Sunda Is., Liberia, Malaya, Marianas, Mauritius, Morocco, Nansei-shoto, Nepal, New Caledonia, New South Wales, New Zealand North, Northern Provinces, Ontario, Philippines, Queensland, Réunion, Samoa, Society Is., Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, Vanuatu

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

• Facco, M.G. & Cavalcanti, T.B. (2023). Taxonomic Revision of Cuphea sect. Trispermum s.l. (Lythraceae). Phytotaxa 588: 1-67.
• Govaerts, R. (1999). World Checklist of Seed Plants 3(1, 2a & 2b): 1-1532. MIM, Deurne.
• Graham, S.A. (2017). A revision of Cuphea section Brachyandra s. s. (Lythraceae). Systematic Botany 42: 859-919.

Flora of Tropical East Africa

• Koehne in E.P. IV. 216: 80 (1903)
• Nat. Hist. Jamaica: 216 (1756)