Galapagos Species Database

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Spermacoce remota Lam.

botoncillo, hierba de toro, tabaquillo, buttonweed, woodland false buttonweed

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Taxonomy

Domain
Eukaryota

Kingdom
Plantae

Phylum
Magnoliophyta

Class
Magnoliopsida (= Dicotyledoneae)

Order
Gentianales

Family
Rubiaceae

Genus
Spermacoce

Species
remota

Taxon category: Accepted

Syn.: Borreria remota (Lam.) Bacigalupo & E.L.Cabral. Borreria assurgens (Ruiz & Pav.) Griseb., sensu Charlotte Taylor (pers. comm., 2009); Borreria laevis (Lam.) Griseb. (misused). Syn.:Spermacoce assurgens

Origin: Native

Distribution

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

References

  • Bacigalupo, N. Cabral, E.L. (1999) Sobre la identidad de dos especies de Lamarck, Spermacoce laevis y S. remota (Rubiaceae, Spermacoceae). Darwiniana 37: 333-334.
  • Bruza, J. (1982) A revision of the Diodia teres complex (Rubiaceae). Ph. D. dissertation, Mississippi State Univ.
  • Cabral, E.L. Bacigalupo, N.M. (1999) A Study of the American Species of Borreria series Laeves (Rubiaceae, Spermacoceae). Darwiniana 37(3-4): 259–277.
  • Fosberg, F. R. (1987) New Nomenclatural combinations for Galapagos Plant Species Botany Dept., Smithsaonian Institution Washington, D. C. 20560, USA.
  • Fosberg, F. R. (1976) Status of the name Chloris barbata (L.) Swartz. Taxon 25(1): 176–178.
  • Funk, V.T. Hollowell, T., Berry, P., Kelloff, C. & Alexander, S.N. (2007) Checklist of the Plants of the Guiana Shield (Venezuela: Amazonas, Bolivar, Delta Amacuro; Guyana, Surinam, French Guiana). Contributions from the United States National Herbarium 55: 1-584.
  • Guerrero, A. Tye, A. (2009) Darwin's Finches as seed predators and dispersers. The Wilson Journal Of Ornithology 121 (4):752-764, 2009
  • Jaramillo, P. (1998) Distribución Espacial de la Vegetación Vascular y Dispersión de Especies Introducidas dentro del Parque Nacional Galápagos. Tesis de Doctorado en Biología, Universidad Central del Ecuador. Especialización ECOLOGIA DE POBLACIONES.
  • 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.
  • Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Missouri Botanical Garden (eds.) (2013) The Plant List, Version 1.1. Published on the Internet; http://www.theplantlist.org/ (accessed 1st January).
  • 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, Spermacoce remota", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=4637. Accessed 4 November 2026.