Rubiaceae
Spermacoce remota
- Family
- Rubiaceae
- Genus
- Spermacoce
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Common names
By language (2)
- Chinese
- 光叶丰花草
- Japanese
- ナガバハリフタバ
Synonyms
- Bigelovia vaginata (Willd.) Spreng.
- Borreria assurgens (Ruiz & Pav.) Griseb.
- Borreria malacophylla Standl. & L.O.Williams
- Borreria remota (Lam.) Bacigalupo & E.L.Cabral
- Borreria vaginata (Willd.) F.Dietr.
- Borreria wydleriana DC.
- Spermacoce assurgens Ruiz & Pav.
- Spermacoce chapmanii Torr. & A.Gray
- Spermacoce dichotoma Willd. ex Steud.
- Spermacoce echioides Kunth
- Spermacoce hebecarpa DC.
- Spermacoce hondurensis Govaerts
- Spermacoce lanceolata Link
- Spermacoce parviflora Salisb.
- Spermacoce sexangularis Sieber ex Steud.
- Spermacoce suffrutescens Jacq.
- Spermacoce suffruticosa Spreng.
- Spermacoce tenuior var. commersonii Verdc.
- Spermacoce tetragona DC.
- Spermacoce vaginata Willd.
- Spermacoce wydleriana (DC.) Kuntze
- Tessiera pubescens Miq.
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Photo: V C Balakrishnan, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons
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Sources: classification, synonyms from World Flora Online Plant List (2026-06, CC0 1.0); common names, popularity from Wikidata (2026-10-26, CC0 1.0). About our plant data.