Group: Dicot Rank: species Kind: Name of a new Taxon Herbarium Placement: Lehmann, lower, E, 77

Authors:

Elliott, Stephen

Published In: A Sketch of the Botany of South-Carolina and Georgia 1(5): 455–456. 1821[1817]. (Sketch Bot. S. Carolina)
Annotation: as "Punctatum"

Type-Protologue

Locality: USA: grows in ditches and shallow ponds. Very common

Collector and Number: Elliott s.n.

Distribution: USA; introduced elsewhere

Type Specimens

• LT: Stephen Elliott - s.n. - CHARL - (/A:BY4102). (CHARL - (/A:BY4102)) LT designated by Ancona & Knapp in Ulloa Ulloa et al. (2025).

  • Lectotype designated by:  Ulloa Ulloa, C., H. M. Hernández, F. R. Barrie, G. Davidse & S. Knapp. 2025. Cycadaceae a Cactaceae. 2(1): ined. In C. Ulloa Ulloa, H. M. Hernández Macías, F. R. Barrie, G. Davidse & S. Knapp Fl. Mesoamer.. Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis.

Higher Taxa:     Taxonomy Browser
Concept: Andean Bryophytes Bolivia Checklist Catalogue of New World Grasses Ecuador Catalogue Flora Mesoamericana Madagascar Catalogue Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Moss Flora of China Peru Checklist Philippine Bryophytes System    details

• class:  Equisetopsida C. Agardh
• subclass:  Magnoliidae Novák ex Takht.
• superorder:  Caryophyllanae Takht.
• order:  !Caryophyllales Juss. ex Bercht. & J. Presl
• family:  !!Polygonaceae Juss.
• genus:  !!Polygonum L.

Other names for this basionym:

Discolenta punctata (Elliott) Raf.

Persicaria punctata (Elliott) Small

Projects: Antioquia , Bolivia , Ecuador , Flora of Panama , IPCN , Madidi Checklist , Mesoamericana , Nicaragua , Panama , Paraguay , Peru , SNR , VPA

Common Names:

• chile de perro (Spanish, Costa Rica)
  • Ulloa Ulloa, C., H. M. Hernández, F. R. Barrie, G. Davidse & S. Knapp. 2025. Cycadaceae a Cactaceae. 2(1): ined. In C. Ulloa Ulloa, H. M. Hernández Macías, F. R. Barrie, G. Davidse & S. Knapp Fl. Mesoamer.. Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis.
• dotted smartweed (English, United States)
  • Brako, L., A.Y. Rossman & D.F. Farr. 1995. Sci. Comm. Names 1–294.
• water smartweed (English, United States)
  • Brako, L., A.Y. Rossman & D.F. Farr. 1995. Sci. Comm. Names 1–294.
• Ya’al wamal (Spanish, Mexico, Chiapas)
  • Ulloa Ulloa, C., H. M. Hernández, F. R. Barrie, G. Davidse & S. Knapp. 2025. Cycadaceae a Cactaceae. 2(1): ined. In C. Ulloa Ulloa, H. M. Hernández Macías, F. R. Barrie, G. Davidse & S. Knapp Fl. Mesoamer.. Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis.
• yail vomol (Spanish, Mexico, Chiapas)
  • Ulloa Ulloa, C., H. M. Hernández, F. R. Barrie, G. Davidse & S. Knapp. 2025. Cycadaceae a Cactaceae. 2(1): ined. In C. Ulloa Ulloa, H. M. Hernández Macías, F. R. Barrie, G. Davidse & S. Knapp Fl. Mesoamer.. Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis.

Keywords: BOL, CEC, FM, PAK, PE, FNA