Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Spermacoce remota
botoncillo, hierba de toro, tabaquillo, buttonweed, woodland false buttonweed
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
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
- 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.