Code
ZORLF
Growth form
Broadleaf
Biological cycle
Perennial
Habitat
Terrestrial
🗒 Synonyms
| synonym | Zornia diphylla subsp. gracilis (DC.) Malme |
| synonym | Zornia diphylla subsp. gracilis (DC.) Malme |
| synonym | Zornia diphylla subsp. gracilis (DC.)Malme |
| synonym | Zornia diphylla var. gracilis (DC.)Benth. |
| synonym | Zornia diphylla var. pubescens (Kunth) Benth. |
| synonym | Zornia diphylla var. pubescens (Kunth) Benth. |
| synonym | Zornia diphylla var. pubescens (Kunth)Benth. |
| synonym | Zornia gracilis DC. |
| synonym | Zornia latifolia var. latifolia |
| synonym | Zornia latifolia var. latifolia |
| synonym | Zornia pubescens Kunth |
| synonym | Zornia surinamensis Miq. |
🗒 Common Names
| Creoles and pidgins; French-based |
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📚 Overview
Description
Global description
Zornia latifolia is a perennial herbaceous plant, thin and branched, erect or creeping, reaching 1 m high. The leaves are stipulate, alternate, compound with 2 leaflets having asymmetrical base. The flowers are small, yellow in color. They are inserted on the terminal or axillary racemes, each flanked by two lance-shaped bracts that it exceeds. The fruit is a pod with 5 to 7 segment, surface bristling with stiff hairs.
General habit
Perennial herbaceous plant highly branched, fine and diffuse, erect or creeping, measuring 20 cm to 1 m high.
Underground system
The plant has a taproot system.
Stem
The stem is very thin, highly branched, and pubescent.
Leaf
The leaves are alternate, compound, bifoliate except for the higher that are simple. The base of the petiole is framed by two lanceolate stipules that extend in a point facing downward. The leaflets are carried by a long petiole. They have a very asymmetrical base (rounded on one side, wedged on the other), an apex attenuated in wide to acute and shortly mucronate, and entire margin. Leaflets of lower leaves are silky and broadly ovate (hence the species name), about 3.5 cm long and 1 to 1.5 cm wide. The leaflets of the upper leaves are oval lanceolate (up to 3 to 5 cm long).
Inflorescence
The flowers are grouped in axillary or terminal spike. Each flower is framed by two lanceolate pointed bracts and extended in a point facing downward (maximum 2 mm long). The surface of the bract is punctuated with well-marked transparent glands.
Flower
The flowers are yellow. They are of equal length or slightly longer to the bract.
Fruit
The fruit is a pod bristling with stiff hairs, 1 mm long, provided with retrorse barbs. It is segmented into 5 to 7 compartments that exceed the bracts.
Zornia latifolia is a perennial herbaceous plant, thin and branched, erect or creeping, reaching 1 m high. The leaves are stipulate, alternate, compound with 2 leaflets having asymmetrical base. The flowers are small, yellow in color. They are inserted on the terminal or axillary racemes, each flanked by two lance-shaped bracts that it exceeds. The fruit is a pod with 5 to 7 segment, surface bristling with stiff hairs.
General habit
Perennial herbaceous plant highly branched, fine and diffuse, erect or creeping, measuring 20 cm to 1 m high.
Underground system
The plant has a taproot system.
Stem
The stem is very thin, highly branched, and pubescent.
Leaf
The leaves are alternate, compound, bifoliate except for the higher that are simple. The base of the petiole is framed by two lanceolate stipules that extend in a point facing downward. The leaflets are carried by a long petiole. They have a very asymmetrical base (rounded on one side, wedged on the other), an apex attenuated in wide to acute and shortly mucronate, and entire margin. Leaflets of lower leaves are silky and broadly ovate (hence the species name), about 3.5 cm long and 1 to 1.5 cm wide. The leaflets of the upper leaves are oval lanceolate (up to 3 to 5 cm long).
Inflorescence
The flowers are grouped in axillary or terminal spike. Each flower is framed by two lanceolate pointed bracts and extended in a point facing downward (maximum 2 mm long). The surface of the bract is punctuated with well-marked transparent glands.
Flower
The flowers are yellow. They are of equal length or slightly longer to the bract.
Fruit
The fruit is a pod bristling with stiff hairs, 1 mm long, provided with retrorse barbs. It is segmented into 5 to 7 compartments that exceed the bracts.
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📚 Nomenclature and Classification
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📚 Natural History
Life Cycle
Life cycle
Annual
Perenial
Reproduction
Zornia latifolia is a perennial plant that reproduces by seed.
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Morphology
Growth form
Erected
Prostrated
Leaf arrangement
Alternate
Leaf type
Compound
Type of prefoliation
Broad leaves
Compound leaf type
Bifoliate leaf
Latex
Without latex
Stem section
Round
Root type
Taproot
Hollow or solid stem
Solid stem
Stipule type
Stipule with appendix
Leaf attachment type
with petiole
Fruit type
Pod
Pod type
Articulated pod
Cotyledon type
reniform
Lamina base
asymmetric
Lamina margin
entire
Lamina apex
acute
mucronate
Upperface pilosity
Glabrous
Less hairy
Upperface hair type
Pubescent
Lowerface pilosity
Less hairy
Glabrous
Lamina section
flat
Lamina Veination
one
Flower color
Yellow
Inflorescence type
Raceme with alternate sessile flowers
Stem pilosity
Glabrous
Life form
Broadleaf plant
Look Alikes
Characters to distinguish several species of Zornia
| Cycle | Flower | Fruit | Fruit bristles | Species |
| Annual | smaller than the bracts | 3-4 segments | 2 mm straight retrorsely hispid | Z. glochidiata |
| Perennial | longer than the bracts | 5-7 segments | 1 mm straight retrorsely hispid | Z. latifolia |
| Perennial | longer than the bracts | 3-5 segments | 3-4 mm straight with ascending hairs | Z. durumuensis |
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Ecology
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Zornia latifolia is a common weed of lawns, waste areas and roadsides. Well adapted to the free-draining, acid and low-fertility, Al-toxic oxisols of the South American savannas. Growing in little or no shade tolerance.
French Guiana : Zornia latifolia is a plant of lawns but also minor weed of vegetable crops on sandy degraded soils. Small ruderal species very common of lawns on dry soils.
French Guiana : Zornia latifolia is a plant of lawns but also minor weed of vegetable crops on sandy degraded soils. Small ruderal species very common of lawns on dry soils.
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📚 Habitat and Distribution
General Habitat
Habitat
Terrestrial
Description
Geographical distibution
Madagascar
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Origin
Zornia latifolia is native to Tropical America
Worldwide distribution
Zornia latifolia is present throughout tropical America. It has been introduced in Africa and is now naturalized in West Africa, Madagascar and Queensland in Australia.
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📚 Occurrence
No Data
📚 Demography and Conservation
Risk Statement
Local harmfulness
Ghana: Rare and scarce.
French Guiana: Zornia latifolia is an unfrequent weed and never abundant.
Ghana: Rare and scarce.
French Guiana: Zornia latifolia is an unfrequent weed and never abundant.
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📚 Uses and Management
Management
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Global control
For weeding Advice for broadleaf annual weeds of irrigated rice and lowland in Africa, visit: http://portal.wiktrop.org/document/show/20
For weeding Advice for broadleaf annual weeds of irrigated rice and lowland in Africa, visit: http://portal.wiktrop.org/document/show/20
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📚 Information Listing
Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
Thomas Le Bourgeois
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References
- Hutchinson, J., Dalziel, J.M., Keay, R.W.J., Hepper, F.N. 1958. Flora of west tropical africa. The Whitefriars Press, London & Tonbridge, Great Britain.
- Berhaut, J. 1967. Flore du Sénégal. Clairafrique, Dakar, Sénégal.
- Okezie Akobundu, I. et Agyakwa, C.W. 1989. Guide des adventices d'Afrique de l'Ouest. Institut international d'agriculture tropicale, Ibadan, Nigeria.
- Marnotte, P. and A. Carrara. (2007). "Plantes des rizières de Guyane." from http://plantes-rizieres-guyane.cirad.fr/.
- Berton, A. (2020). Flore spontanée des cultures maraichères et fruitières de Guyane. Guide de reconnaissance des 140 adventices les plus communes des parcelles cultivées. Cayenne, Guyane, FREDON Guyane: 186.https://portal.wiktrop.org/document/show/173
- Grard, P., T. Le Bourgeois, J. Rodenburg, P. Marnotte, A. Carrara, R. Irakiza, D. Makokha, G. kyalo, K. Aloys, K. Iswaria, N. Nguyen and G. Tzelepoglou (2012). AFROweeds V.1.0: African weeds of rice. Cédérom. Montpellier, France & Cotonou, Bénin, Cirad-AfricaRice eds.
- Akobundu I.O. and Agyakwa C.W. (1998). A handbook of West African Weeds. International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Ibadan, Nigeria. 338p.
Information Listing > References
- Hutchinson, J., Dalziel, J.M., Keay, R.W.J., Hepper, F.N. 1958. Flora of west tropical africa. The Whitefriars Press, London & Tonbridge, Great Britain.
- Berhaut, J. 1967. Flore du Sénégal. Clairafrique, Dakar, Sénégal.
- Okezie Akobundu, I. et Agyakwa, C.W. 1989. Guide des adventices d'Afrique de l'Ouest. Institut international d'agriculture tropicale, Ibadan, Nigeria.
- Marnotte, P. and A. Carrara. (2007). "Plantes des rizières de Guyane." from http://plantes-rizieres-guyane.cirad.fr/.
- Berton, A. (2020). Flore spontanée des cultures maraichères et fruitières de Guyane. Guide de reconnaissance des 140 adventices les plus communes des parcelles cultivées. Cayenne, Guyane, FREDON Guyane: 186.https://portal.wiktrop.org/document/show/173
- Grard, P., T. Le Bourgeois, J. Rodenburg, P. Marnotte, A. Carrara, R. Irakiza, D. Makokha, G. kyalo, K. Aloys, K. Iswaria, N. Nguyen and G. Tzelepoglou (2012). AFROweeds V.1.0: African weeds of rice. Cédérom. Montpellier, France & Cotonou, Bénin, Cirad-AfricaRice eds.
- Akobundu I.O. and Agyakwa C.W. (1998). A handbook of West African Weeds. International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Ibadan, Nigeria. 338p.
Images
Herbarium pictures ReCOLNAT: https://explore.recolnat.org/search/botanique/simplequery=Zornia%2520latifolia
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🐾 Taxonomy
| Root | Root |
| Kingdom | Plantae |
| Phylum | Tracheophyta |
| Class | Magnoliopsida |
| Order | Fabales |
| Family | Fabaceae |
| Genus | Zornia |
| Species | Zornia latifolia Sm. |
📊 Temporal Distribution
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