Taxon:
Physalis minima L.
Summary
Place of publication:
Sp. pl. 1:183. 1753
Verified:
10/02/1995
ARS Systematic Botanists.
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Reference(s)
- Aubréville, A. et al., eds. Flore de la Nouvelle Caledonie et dependances. 1967-
- George, A. S., ed. Flora of Australia. 1980-
- Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. Note: re. Brazilian common names
- Holm, L. et al. World weeds: natural histories and distribution. 1997 583. Note: mentions
- Howard, R. Flora of the lesser Antilles. 1974-1989
- Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (on-line resource). http://www.anbg.gov.au/common.names/
- McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. 2000 Note: American Herbal Products Association, Silver Spring, MD
- Merrill, E. D. An enumeration of Philippine flowering plants. 1922-1926
- Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource). http://www.plantnames.unimelb.edu.au/Sorting/Frontpage.html
- Rehm, S. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. 1994
Common names
English
annual ground-cherry – green-gooseberry – sunberry – wild gooseberry – Spanish
vejiga de perro –
Distribution
order_code | Status | Continent | Subcontinent | Country | State | Note |
4 | Naturalized | | | | | widely natzd. in tropics |
6 | Other | | | | | probable origin neotropics |
Naturalized
(widely natzd. in tropics)
Other
(probable origin neotropics)
Economic Uses
Harmful organism host
Medicines
folklore (fide Herbs Commerce ed2; Wealth India RM, as P. minima var. indica; Healing Pl India, as P. minima var. indica) – Weed
potential seed contaminant (fide F Aust) –