Asclepias curassavica

TaxID: 52823

Basic Information

Asclepias curassavica

Bloodflower, Tropical Milkweed

Asclepias curassavica, commonly known as tropical milkweed, is a flowering plant species of the milkweed genus, Asclepias. It is native to the American tropics and has a pantropical distribution as an introduced species. Other common names include bloodflower or blood flower, cotton bush, hierba de la cucaracha, Mexican butterfly weed, redhead, scarlet milkweed, and wild ipecacuanha.

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Taxonomic Information

Eukaryota

Streptophyta

Magnoliopsida

Gentianales

Apocynaceae

Asclepias

curassavica

Unclassified

Photos (0 photos)

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Morphological Features

No morphological description available.

Host Plants (0 host plants)

Data sources: EPPO Global Database and relevant literature.

No host plants available.

Quarantine Status (2 records)

Data sources: IPPC website and national quarantine websites; verified by human review.

Country Status Year Added
Poland Regulated Invasive Alien Plant 2012
French Polynesia Present —

Distribution (116 countries)

Data Sources: EPPO Global Database and GBIF.

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Present
0
Absent
0
Unknown/Other
Country Status State
Antigua and Barbuda Present —
Aruba Present —
Angola Present —
Argentina Present —
Australia Present —
Burundi Present —
Benin Present —
Bangladesh Present —
Bahamas Present —
Belize Present —
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Distribution Map (Latitude and longitude coordinates sourced from GBIF.)

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Genomes (1 records)

Data source: NCBI.

Assembly Accession Assembly Level Genome Size(Mb) Contig N50(Kb) Scaffold N50(Kb) BUSCO% Downloads Actions
GCA_046718775.1 Chromosome 197 10019 18014 -

Transcriptomes (2 records)

Data source: NCBI.

Run ID Tissue Developmental Stage Sex Read Count Location Actions
ERR2040538 - - - 12510018 -
SRR35838988 leaves adult - 43194429 Mexico: Queretaro

DNA Barcodes (24 records)

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Data source: BOLD.

Process ID BIN Marker Length Country Date Lat/Lon Sequence
SDH165-14 - rbcLa 552 United States 1962-09-17 -
MHPAD795-09 - rbcLa 552 Costa Rica 2009-01-19 10.789, -85.551
MHPAD794-09 - rbcLa 552 Costa Rica 2009-01-19 10.789, -85.551
MHPAD656-09 - matK 758 Costa Rica 2009-01-26 10.905, -85.279
MHPAD655-09 - rbcLa 552 Costa Rica 2009-01-26 10.905, -85.279
MHPAD654-09 - matK 758 Costa Rica 2009-01-26 10.905, -85.275
MHPAD525-09 - rbcLa 527 Costa Rica 2008-12-09 10.905, -85.468
MHPAD524-09 - rbcLa 539 Costa Rica 2008-12-09 10.905, -85.468
MHPAD523-09 - rbcLa 552 Costa Rica 2008-12-09 10.905, -85.468
MHPAD2451-10 - rbcLa 552 Costa Rica 2009-12-11 10.879, -85.386
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Literature