Asystasia Blume

Native to:

Andaman Is., Angola, Assam, Bangladesh, Benin, Botswana, Burkina, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Provinces, Caprivi Strip, Central African Republic, Chad, China South-Central, China Southeast, Christmas I., Comoros, Congo, Cuba, Djibouti, DR Congo, East Himalaya, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Gulf of Guinea Is., India, Ivory Coast, Jawa, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Laos, Lesser Sunda Is., Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Maluku, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, New Guinea, Niger, Nigeria, Northern Provinces, Northern Territory, Oman, Queensland, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Socotra, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Sudan-South Sudan, Sulawesi, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Uganda, Vietnam, Western Australia, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Introduced into:

Alabama, Bahamas, Belize, Brazil Southeast, Caroline Is., Cayman Is., Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Fiji, Florida, Gilbert Is., Gulf States, Hainan, Haiti, Hawaii, Honduras, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Madeira, Malaya, Marianas, Marquesas, Marshall Is., Mauritius, Nauru, New Caledonia, Nicaragua, Niue, Panamá, Puerto Rico, Rodrigues, Réunion, Samoa, Society Is., South China Sea, Tonga, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles, Windward Is.

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

• Govaerts, R. (1995). World Checklist of Seed Plants 1(1, 2): 1-483, 529. MIM, Deurne.

Flora of West Tropical Africa

• —F.T.A. 5: 130.

Flora Zambesiaca

• Bijdr.: 796 (1826).
• —Nees in in De Candolle, Prod. 11: 163 (1847).

Flora of Somalia

• Flora Somalia, (2000) Author: by M. Hedrén [updated by M. Thulin 2008]