Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Callisia repens
calcha, calisia, zacate, bolivian inchplant, creeping inchplant, turtle vine
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Magnoliophyta
Class
Liliopsida (= Monocotyledoneae)
Order
Commelinales
Family
Commelinaceae
Genus
Callisia
Species
repens
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Hapalanthus repens Jacq.
Origin: Introduced - established
Year of first record: 2006
Mode of introduction: Intentional
Introduction Pathway: Intentional
Subpathway: Agriculture/Horticulture
Introduced status: Human dependent
Invasive status: No data
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
- CONABIO (2009) Catálogo taxonómico de especies de México. Cap. nat. México 1.
- Guézou, A. Trueman, M., Buddenhagen, E., Chamorro, S., Guerrero, A.M., Pozo, P., Atkinson, R. (2010) An extensive Alien Plan Inventory from the Inhabited Areas of Galapagos Plos One/ www.plosone.org. Volume 5/ Issue 4/e10276
- Hunt, D.R. (1993) Galapagos. Archipelago del Ecuador. Fl. Novo-Galiciana 13: 130–201.
- Hunt, D.R. (1994) 257. Commelinaceae. Fl. Mesoamer. 6: 157–173.
- Jørgensen, P.M. León-Yánez, S. (eds.) (1999) Catalogue of the Vascular Plants of Ecuador. Monographs in Systematic Botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 75. Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St. Louis, 1181 pp.
- Tropicos.org. (2017) Database of Missouri Botanical Garden. Tropicos.org. Missouri Botanical Garden. 06 Oct 2017 <http://www.tropicos.org
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"Galapagos Species Database, Callisia repens", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=2115. Accessed 4 November 2026.