General Information

COMMON NAMES: Adenostemma GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION: NATIVE Africa - China - Malesia - Australia - Tuamotus - Hawai‘i COOK ISLANDS STATUS: Native; Land, lowlands KEY FEATURES: Weedy herb to 2m. LEAVES opposite, hairy, ovate to rhombic, 15x7cm, 2:1, base tapering, teeth low and sparse. FLOWERS/FRUIT head erect and small, 5mmØ; petals white, 4mm long; ACHENES brown, warty, 5mm long, sticky.

Cook Islands Distribution

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Southern Group: Present    Makatea:
RR	MG	AT	MK	MT	AK	PL	TK	MN
P						+		-

Northern Group: -
TN	MH	RK	PK	NS	SW
-	-	-	-	-	-

Adenostemma viscosum J.R.Forster
SYNONYMS: Adenostemma lavenia [sensu]

TAXONOMY: PLANTAE; ANTHOPHYTA (=Angiospermae); MAGNOLIOPSIDA (=Dicotyledones); ASTERIDAE; Asterales; ASTERACEAE

GENERAL NOTE: ACSmith indigenous in Fiji; Wagner et.al. indigenous in Hawaii (under broader name lavenia), and type was collected Tahiti by Forster on Cook's Second Voyage. For Rarotonga listed in 1899 as not rare in cultivations and in forest (at the same time Ageratum conyzoides was noted as an aggressive weed), but not listed in the 1920s by Wilder.

Vouchers:
None Recorded.

References:
p.254 Wagner et al.- Flowering Plants of Hawaii
p.829 Neal - In Gardens of Hawaii
p.5/292 A.C.Smith - Flora Vitiensis Nova
p.284 I Cheeseman - Flora of Rarotonga
p.417 Whistler - Ethnobotany of the Cook Islands

Data Update History (information):
zTX, zB02, zM05a, zD02

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