Name: Higuillo, Meladillo silvestre; White Plumbago
Distribution: Egypt (SE-Egypt); Cape Verde Isl. (Santo Antao Isl., Ilha de Sao Nicolau, Ilha de Sao Tiago, Fogo Isl., Ilha Brava); Guinea-Bissau; Guinea; Burkina Faso; Togo; Benin; Cameroon; Bioko Isl. [Fernando Poo]; São Tomé; Congo [Brazzaville]; Central African Republic; Chad (incl. Tibesti); Sudan; South Sudan; Angola; Zambia; Zimbabwe; Mozambique; Namibia; Botswana; South Africa (Limpopo, North-West Prov., Gauteng, Mpulamanga, Free State, KwaZulu-Natal, N-Cape Prov.); Eswatini [Swaziland]; Madagascar; Comores (Mayotte, etc.); Mauritius; La Réunion; Rodrigues; Seychelles [I]; Oman (Dhofar); Yemen (Tihama, W-Yemen); China (Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hainan, Sichuan); Taiwan; Pakistan (Hazara, Pakistani Punjab, Rawalpindi, Mirpur); Nepal; India (almost throughout); Lakshadweep Isl. [Laccadives]; Sri Lanka; Bangladesh; Andaman Isl. [I]; Nicobar Isl. [I]; Myanmar; Thailand; Laos; Cambodia; Vietnam; peninsular Malaysia; Singapore; Sumatra; Sulawesi; Philippines; Java; Lesser Sunda Isl. (Bali, etc.); Christmas Isl. [Austr.]; New Guinea (Irian Jaya, Papua New Guinea); Australia (Western Australia, Northern Territory, Queensland, New South Wales); Norfolk Isl.; New Caledonia; Vanuatu [I]; Fiji [I]; American Samoa (Ofu, Olosega); Cook Isl. (Rarotonga, Aitutaki); Marquesas Isl. (Eiao, Nuku Hiva, Ua Huka, Hiva Oa); Society Isl. (Tahiti, Maupiti, Bora Bora); Northern Marianas (Maug, Saipan, Rota); Hawaii (Kauai, Oahu, Molokai, Lanai, Maui, Kahoolawe Isl., Hawaii Isl.); USA (Arizona, Florida, Texas); Mexico (Baja California Sur, Sonora, Sinaloa, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo Leon, Tamaulipas, Durango, Zacatecas, Aguascalientes, San Luis Potosi, Guanajuato, Queretaro, Hidalgo, Nayarit, Jalisco, Colima, Michoacan, México State, Morelos, Puebla, Guerrero, Oaxaca, Chiapas, Yucatan, Quintana Roo); Guatemala; Belize; El Salvador; Honduras; Nicaragua; Costa Rica; Panama; Bahamas; Turks & Caicos Isl.; Cuba [I]; Jamaica; Hispaniola [I]; Puerto Rico [I]; Navassa Isl. [I]; Virgin Isl. [I] (Guana [I], St. Croix [I], St. John [I], St. Thomas [I], Tortola [I]); Anguilla; St. Martin/St. Maarten; St. Barthélémy; Saba; St. Eustatius; St. Kitts; Antigua; Barbuda; Redonda; Montserrat; Guadeloupe; Dominica; Martinique; St. Lucia; Grenadines; St. Vincent; Grenada; Barbados; Tobago; Trinidad; Aruba; Bonaire; Curacao; Colombia (Antioquia, Bolívar, Boyacá, Cundinamarca, Huila, La Guajira, Magdalena, Sucre, Tolima, Valle); Isla Margarita; Venezuela (Anzoategui, Aragua, Barinas, Bolívar, Carabobo, Delta Amacuro, Venezuela Distrito Federal, Lara, Merida, Miranda, Monagas, Nueva Esparta, Sucre, Trujillo, Zulia); ?Guyana; Surinam; French Guiana; Ecuador; Galapagos; Peru; Bolivia (Chuquisaca, La Paz, Santa Cruz, Tarija); N-Brazil (Pará); NE-Brazil (Maranhao, Ceara, Paraíba, Pernambuco, Bahia); WC-Brazil (Mato Grosso do Sul); SE-Brazil (Rio de Janeiro); Paraguay (Central, Cordillera); Argentina (Chaco, Formosa, Jujuy, Salta, Santa Fe, Tucuman); etc.
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Remarks: P. scandens (New World) and P. zeylanica (Old World) are frequently treated as separate species
Synonyms: hidden
= Findlaya alba Bowdich; Bowdich, Exc. Madeira: 258 (1825)
= Molubda scandens (L.) Raf.; Sylva Tellur. 123 (1838)
= Plumbagidium scandens (L.) Spach; Hist. Veg. Phan. 10: 339 (1841)
= Plumbago americana L.; Fl. Jamaic.: 14 (1759)
= Plumbago americana Weigel; Diss. Hort. Gryph.: 12 (1782)
= Plumbago auriculata Blume; Bijdr. Fl. Ned. Ind. 14: 736 (1826), nom. illeg.
= Plumbago flaccida Moench; Methodus: 429 (1794)
= Plumbago floridana Nutt.; Amer. J. Sci. Ser. I. 5: 290 (1822)
= Plumbago floridana Raf.; New Fl. N. Amer., Pt. 4, 14 (1838)
= Plumbago juncea Bojer; Hortus Maurit.: 263 (1837)
= Plumbago lactea Salisb.; Prodr. Stirp. Chap. Allerton 122 (1796)
= Plumbago littoralis Mure; Doctrine Ecole Rio de Janeiro Pathog. Brésil.: 240 (1849)
= Plumbago maximowiczii Gand.; Bull. Soc. Bot. France 66: 221 (1919)
= Plumbago mexicana Kunth; Nov. Gen. & Sp. 2: 221 (1817)
= Plumbago occidentalis Sweet; Hort. Brit. ed. 1, 333 (1826)
= Plumbago sarmentosa Lam.; Tabl. Encycl. 1: 470 (1793)
= Plumbago scandens f. erecta Chodat & Hassl.; Bull. Herb. Boissier, sér. 2, 3(10): 912 (1903)
= Plumbago scandens L.; Sp. Pl., ed. 2, 215 (1762)
= Plumbago scandens var. densiflora Kuntze; Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 396 (1891)
= Plumbago scandens var. erecta Chodat & Hassl.; Bull. Herb. Boissier, sér. 2, 3: 912 (1903)
= Plumbago toxicaria Bertol.; Mem. Reale Accad. Sci. Ist. Bologna 2: 264 (1850)
= Plumbago viscosa Blanco; Fl. Filip.: 78 (1837)
= Plumbago zeylanica var. glaucescens Boiss.; Prodr. [A. P. de Candolle] 12: 693 (1848)
= Plumbago zeylanica var. oxypetala Boiss.; Prodr. [A. P. de Candolle] 12: 693 (1848)
= Thela alba Lour.; Fl. Cochinch. 1: 119 (1790)