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Heliotropium curassavicum

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Tracheophyta » Boraginales » Heliotropiaceae » Heliotropium curassavicum
Ηabitat
B1 Coastal Sand
Global distribution

USA (Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Louisiana, Maryland, Maine, Missouri, Mississippi, North Carolina, Nebraska, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia), Bahamas, Turks & Caicos Isl., Cayman Isl., Cuba, Hispaniola, Puerto Rico, Virgin Isl. (St. Croix, St. John, St. Thomas, Tortola, Virgin Gorda), Lesser Antilles (Anguilla, Antigua, Barbados, Grenada, Grenadines, Guadeloupe, St. Barthelemy, St. Eustatius, St. Kitts, St. Lucia, St. Martin, St. Vincent), Aruba, Bonaire, Curacao, Isla Margarita, Mexico (Aguascalientes, Baja California Norte, Baja California Sur, Campeche, Chiapas, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Colima, Ciudad de Mexico, Durango, Guanajuato, Guerrero, Hidalgo, Jalisco, Mexico State, Michoacan, Morelos, Nayarit, Nuevo Leon, Oaxaca, Puebla, Queretaro, Quintana Roo, San Luis Potosi, Sinaloa, Sonora, Tabasco, Tamaulipas, Tlaxcala, Veracruz, Yucatan, Zacatecas), Belize, Bermuda, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Panama, Ecuador, NE-Brazil (Piaui, Paraiba), Argentina (Buenos Aires, Chaco, Chubut, Cordoba, Corrientes, Formosa, La Rioja, Rio Negro, Santiago del Estero, San Luis), Chile (Tarapaca, Antofagasta, Atacama, Coquimbo, Valparaiso, O'Higgins, Reg. Metropolitana), Paraguay (Alto Paraguay, Pres. Hayes), Venezuela (Aragua, Carabobo, Delta Amacuro, Dependencias Federales, Distrito Federal, Falcon, Guarico, Miranda, Nueva Esparta, Sucre), Costa Rica, Galapagos Isl., Panama, Clipperton Isl., Guyana, Surinam, French Guiana?, Revillagigedos Isl. (Isla Socorro, Isla Clarion), Bolivia (Cochabamba, Santa Cruz, Tarija), Colombia (Atlntico, Bolvar, La Guajira, Magdalena, San Andrs, Providencia y Santa Catalina), Clipperton Isl., South Africa (I) (widespread), Madagascar (I), Tanzania (I), Angola (I), Namibia (I), Botswana (I), Mozambique (I), Portugal (I), Spain (I), Baleares (I), France (I), Sardinia (I), Sicily (I), Italy (I), Albania (I), Romania (I), Greece (I), East Aegaean Isl. (I), Libya (I), Tunisia (I), Algeria (I), Morocco (I), Australia (I) (Western Australia (I), Northern Territory (I), South Australia (I), Queensland (I), New South Wales (I), Victoria (I)), Java (I), Philippines (I), Bangladesh (I), Sri Lanka (I), India (I), Pakistan (I), Turkey (I) (W-Anatolia (I)), Qatar (I), Egypt (I) (Eastern Desert (I)), Saudi Arabia (I) (Hejaz (I)), Azores (I) (Sao Miguel Isl. (I)), Canary Isl. (I) (Fuerteventura (I)), Cape Verde Isl. (I) (Sao Vicente Isl. (I), Sal Isl. (I), Ilha da Boa Vista (I), Ilha de Maio (I)), Hawaii (Lanai, French Frigate Shoals, Nihoa, Kauai, Oahu, Molokai, Lanai, Maui, Kahoolawe Isl., Hawaii Isl.) 141011 0

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Habitat detail

"H. curassavicum has been recently found on the coast, adjacent to Dekeleia Power Station (phytogeographical division 4, sensu Meikle 1977)" (Charilaou 2018).

Establishment status
Established
Establishment status detail

Alien: Naturalized non-invasive.

First detection year
2018
Impacts
Unknown
Pathway
1 RELEASE IN NATURE - Other intentional release - Other
Pathway detail

CBD pathway per EASIN (2023).

References

Charilaou P (2018) Heliotropium curassavicum L. (Boraginaceae), a new alien species collected in Cyprus. Cypricola 10: 1-4.

EASIN (2023) European Commission Joint Research Centre: European Alien Species Information Network (EASIN). https://easin.jrc.ec.europa.eu/

"UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology"
Joint Service Health Unit
University of Cyprus - Department of Biological Sciences
Darwin Initiative
Akrotiri Environment

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