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White spotflower (Acmella radicans)

Dlium White spotflower (Acmella radicans)

White spotflower (Acmella radicans) is a species of plant in the Asteraceae, shrub, erect, up to 40 cm tall, branching, cylindrical stems, red or green or white spots and branching to form a trident.

A. radicans has leaves and patiole of various shapes and sizes. Strands are slender ovate or can be broadly ovate, broad base, pointed tip, serrated margins and sometimes red, upper surface green, a vein in the middle and many pinnate small veins.





Flowers have a long and erect stalk at the end of the stem, oval in shape with a slender tip or can be rounded, greenish white in color. Seeds are elongated and flat oval in shape, black and shiny, surrounded by white feathers and easily fly in the wind.

TAXON

Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Tracheophyta
Subphylum: Angiospermae
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Subfamily: Asteroideae
Tribe: Heliantheae
Subtribe: Spilanthinae
Genus: Acmella Rich. ex Pers. in Syn. Pl. 2: 472 (1807)
Species: Acmella radicans (Jacq.) R.K.Jansen in Syst. Bot. Monogr. 8: 69 (1985)

HOMOTYPIC SYNONYMS

Spilanthes radicans Jacq. in Collectanea 3: 229 (1791)

HETEROTYPIC SYNONYMS

Acmella debilis Cass. in G.-F.Cuvier, Dict. Sci. Nat., ed. 2. 24: 331 (1822)
Acmella radicans var. debilis (Kunth) R.K.Jansen in Syst. Bot. Monogr. 8: 72 (1985)
Acmella tenella (Kunth) Cass. (1822)
Ceratocephalus debilis (Kunth) Kuntze in Revis. Gen. Pl. 1: 326 (1891)
Ceratocephalus exasperatus (Jacq.) Kuntze (1891)
Ceratocephalus tenellus (Kunth) Kuntze (1891)
Sanvitalia longepedunculata M.E.Jones in Contr. W. Bot. 18: 78 (1933)
Spilanthes botterii S.Watson in Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 26: 141 (1891)
Spilanthes debilis Kunth in F.W.H.von Humboldt, A.J.A.Bonpland & C.S.Kunth, Nov. Gen. Sp., ed. fol., 4: 165 (1818)
Spilanthes exasperata Jacq. in Ic. Pl. Rar. 3(9): 15 (1792)
Spilanthes exasperata var. cayennensis DC. in Prodr. 5: 626 (1836)
Spilanthes leucophaea Sch.Bip. ex Klatt in Leopoldina 23: 144 (1887)
Spilanthes mandonii Sch.Bip. in Linnaea 34: 529 (1866)
Spilanthes ocymifolia var. acutiserrata A.H.Moore in Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 42: 533 (1907)
Spilanthes tenella Kunth (1818)

PUBLICATIONS

Dorji, R. & al. (2022). Nineteen new records of plant species including two new genera recorded from Bhutan himalayas. Korean Journal of Plant Taxonomy 52: 173-183.

Gosline, G., Bidault, E., van der Burgt, X., Cahen, D., Challen, G., Condé, N., Couch, C., Couvreur, T.L.P., Dagallier, L.M.J., Darbyshire, I., Dawson, S., Doré, T.S., Goyder, D., Grall, A., Haba, P., Haba, P., Harris, D., Hind, D.J.N., Jongkind, & al. (2023). A Taxonomically-verified and Vouchered Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Republic of Guinea. Nature, scientific data 10, Article number: 327: [1]-[12].

Kiew, R. & al. (eds.) (2021). Malayan Forest Records 49: 1-403.

Liogier, A.H. (1996). Flora de la Española 8: 1-588. Instituto Tecnológico de Santo Domingo.

Mao, A.A. & Dash, S.S. (2020). Flowering Plants of India an Annotated Checklist (Dicotyledons) 1: 1-970. Botanical Survey of India.

Pruski, J.F. (ed.) (2018). Flora Mesoamericana 5(2): 1-608. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México, D.F.

Rajbhandari, K.R., Rai, S.K. & Chhetri, R. (2024). A Handbook of the Flowering Plants of Nepal 5: 1-432. Department of Plant Resources, Thapathali, Kathmandu, Nepal.

Roskov Y. & al. (eds.) (2018). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands.

Sarder, N.U. & Hassan, M.A. (eds.) (2018). Vascular flora of Chittagong and the Chittagong Hill Tracts 3: 1-978. Bangladesh National Herbarium, Dhaka.

VERNACULAR NAME

Chinese (simplified): 白花金钮扣
Chinese (traditional): 白花金鈕扣
Indonesia: Jotang putih
Java: Jotang putih

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