Galapagos Species Database

Taxon category: Accepted

Syn.: Pseuderanthemum carruthersii (Seem.) Guillaumin;

Origin: Introduced - established

IUCN Red List Category: Not evaluated

Year of first record: 1985

Mode of introduction: Intentional

Introduction Pathway: Intentional

Subpathway: Agriculture/Horticulture

Introduced status: Human dependent

Invasive status: Unlikely to become invasive

Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.

Distribution: Found in: Asia-Tropical, Papuasia, Solomon Is., Pacific, Southwestern Pacific, Vanuatu Introduced into: Africa, West-Central Tropical Africa, Cameroon, Asia-Tropical, Indian Subcontinent, Maldives, Sri Lanka, Indo-China, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, Malesia, Jawa, Pacific, Northwestern Pacific, Caroline Is., Marianas, Marshall Is., Wake I., South-Central Pacific, Cook Is., Line Is., Society Is., Tuamotu, Tubuai Is., Southwestern Pacific, Fiji, Gilbert Is., New Caledonia, Niue, Tuvalu, Southern America, Caribbean, Leeward Is., Puerto Rico, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuelan Antilles, Windward Is., Central America, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panamá, Northern South America, Venezuela, Western South America, Ecuador

• Gildas Gâteblé Laurence Ramon, Jean-François Butaud (2019) A new coastal species of Pseuderanthemum (Acanthaceae) from Loyalty Islands (New Caledonia) and Vanuatu with notes on P. carruthersii Gâteblé G, Ramon L, Butaud JF. A new coastal species of Pseuderanthemum (Acanthaceae) from Loyalty Islands (New Caledonia) and Vanuatu with notes on P. carruthersii. PhytoKeys. 2019 Jul 29;128:73-84. doi: 10.3897/phytokeys.128.36325.
• I.M. Turner (2016) Rather for the nomenclaturist than for the scientific botanist: The Botanical Cabinet of Conrad Loddiges & Sons Turner, I. M. (2016). Rather for the nomenclaturist than for the scientific botanist: The Botanical Cabinet of Conrad Loddiges & Sons. Taxon, 65(5), 1107–1149. https://doi.org/10.12705/655.13