English: Climbing Dayflower

Mandarin: 节节草 (jie jie cao)

Kingdom: Plantae (2089)

  Phylum: Magnoliophyta (1996)

    Class: Liliopsida (314)

      Order: Commelinales (15)

        Family: Commelinaceae (15) (family description)

          Genus: Commelina (3)

           Epithet: diffusa Burm. f. (2)

diffusa => spread about, wildly or loosely spreading

Climate: tropical

Habitat: hydrophytic

Habit: herb

Flower colour: blue, white

Check for Commelina diffusa at The Plant List, GBIF or IPNI

• [230] Commelina diffusa - Pacific Island Ecosystems at Risk project (PIER)
• [1616] Commelina diffusa - Flora of China @ efloras.org

• [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.

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