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Geographic Range [top]
Range Description: This species is pantropical. Thought to be native to the Old World and introduced and naturalized in the New World.
Countries occurrence:
Native:
Afghanistan; Anguilla; Antigua and Barbuda; Argentina (Buenos Aires, Chaco, Chaco, Corrientes, Corrientes, Formosa, Formosa, Jujuy, Jujuy, Misiones, Salta, Salta, Santa Fé, Santiago del Estero); Aruba; Australia (Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia); Bahamas; Barbados; Belize; Benin; Bhutan; Bolivia, Plurinational States of; Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba (Saba, Sint Eustatius); Brazil (Acre, Amazonas, Bahia, Bahia, Brasília Distrito Federal, Ceará, Espírito Santo, Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul, Mato Grosso do Sul, Minas Gerais, Minas Gerais, Pará, Paraíba, Pernambuco, Pernambuco, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Rio Grande do Norte, Rio Grande do Norte, Roraima, Roraima, Santa Catarina, São Paulo); Burundi; Cambodia; Cameroon; Cape Verde; Cayman Islands; Central African Republic; Chad; Chile; China (Anhui, Fujian, Gansu, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hebei, Heilongjiang, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Jilin, Liaoning, Ningxia, Shaanxi, Shandong, Shanxi, Sichuan, Yunnan, Zhejiang); Colombia; Congo, The Democratic Republic of the; Costa Rica; Côte dIvoire; Cuba; Curaçao; Dominica; Dominican Republic; Ecuador; El Salvador; Ethiopia; French Guiana; Ghana; Grenada; Guadeloupe; Guatemala; Guyana; Haiti; Honduras; India (Andhra Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Assam, Bihar, Bihar, Dadra-Nagar-Haveli, Daman, Daman, Delhi, Delhi, Diu, Diu, Goa, Goa, Gujarat, Gujarat, Haryana, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu-Kashmir, Jammu-Kashmir, Karnataka, Karnataka, Kerala, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Maharashtra, Manipur, Manipur, Meghalaya, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Orissa, Orissa, Pondicherry, Pondicherry, Punjab, Punjab, Rajasthan, Rajasthan, Sikkim, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu, Tamil Nadu, Tripura, Tripura, Uttar Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, West Bengal, Yanam); Indonesia (Bali); Israel; Jamaica; Kenya; Madagascar; Malaysia; Mali; Martinique; Mexico (Baja California, Baja California Sur, Baja California Sur, Campeche, Campeche, Chiapas, Chiapas, Chihuahua, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Coahuila, Colima, Colima, Durango, Durango, Guanajuato, Guanajuato, Guerrero, Guerrero, Hidalgo, Hidalgo, Jalisco, Jalisco, Morelos, Morelos, Nayarit, Nayarit, Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Puebla, Puebla, Quintana Roo, Quintana Roo, Sinaloa, Sinaloa, Sonora, Sonora, Tabasco, Tabasco, Tamaulipas, Tamaulipas, Veracruz, Veracruz, Zacatecas, Zacatecas); Montserrat; Myanmar; Namibia; Nepal; Nicaragua; Niger; Nigeria; Oman; Pakistan; Panama; Papua New Guinea; Paraguay; Peru; Philippines; Puerto Rico; Qatar; Rwanda; Saint Barthélemy; Saint Martin (French part); Sao Tomé and Principe; Saudi Arabia; Senegal; Sierra Leone; Sint Maarten (Dutch part); Somalia; South Africa; Sri Lanka; Sudan; Suriname; Swaziland; Taiwan, Province of China; Tanzania, United Republic of; Thailand; Togo; Uganda; United States (Alabama, Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Florida, Georgia, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming); Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of; Viet Nam; Yemen
Additional data:
? Upper elevation limit (metres): 4000
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Population [top]
Population: The population size of this species is not known, but recent surveys between 1980 and 2008 from throughout the range of the species suggest it occurs in groups of plants from 30 to 500 individuals (MSBP).
Current Population Trend: Stable
Additional data:
Habitat and Ecology [top]
Habitat and Ecology: Rhynchosia minima is a perennial climbing or prostrate herb which occurs in grassland, grassland with scattered trees, dambo and pan margins and woody bushland. Reported from ruderal land, roadside, grazed and human disturbed land, generally on plain land and sandy black soil. Associated with Acacia woodland in Africa, with Ambrosia in USA and with cacti in Mexico (MSBP 2010).
Systems: Terrestrial
Use and Trade [top]
Use and Trade: Rhynchosia minima is used for medicines such as abortifacients, ecbolics, general healing, medicines to treat sickness such as haemorrhoids, heart, diarrhoea and dysentery among them. It is also used as food (sweets) and its seeds are used as miscellaneous poison or repellents.
Threats [top]
Major Threat(s): There are no known major threats to this species.
Conservation Actions [top]
Conservation Actions: There are many conservation areas across the species range. R. minima is known to occur in protected areas in every continent where occurs. Seeds have been collected as part of the Millennium Seed Bank project (MSBP). It is known to occur in five Botanical Gardens.
Citation: Lopez Poveda, L. 2012. Rhynchosia minima. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2012: e.T19379374A20135353. http://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2012.RLTS.T19379374A20135353.en. Downloaded on 12 December 2016.
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