Malvaceae
Triumfetta

Triumfetta semitriloba Jacq.

First published in Enum. Syst. Pl.: 22 (1760)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is Tropical & Subtropical America. It is a subshrub or shrub and grows primarily in the seasonally dry tropical biome. It is used as a medicine.

Descriptions

Bernal, R., Gradstein, S.R. & Celis, M. (eds.). 2015. Catálogo de plantas y líquenes de Colombia. Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá. http://catalogoplantasdecolombia.unal.edu.co

Distribution
Nativa en Colombia; Alt. 800 - 1490 m.; Andes, Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Valle del Magdalena.
Morphology General Habit
Arbusto
Conservation
No Evaluada
[CPLC]

Distribution
Biogeografic region: Andean. Elevation range: 800–1490 m a.s.l. Native to Colombia. Colombian departments: Antioquia, Cauca, Magdalena.
Habit
Shrub.
Conservation
IUCN Red List Assessment (2021): LC.
Ecology
Habitat according IUCN Habitats Classification: forest and woodland, savanna, shrubland, artificial - terrestrial.
[UPFC]

George R. Proctor (2012). Flora of the Cayman Isands (Second Edition). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

Vernacular
BUR-WEED
Morphology General Habit
A short-lived shrub or woody herb up to 1.5 m tall or more; leaves long-petiolate, the petioles 1–9 cm long; blades ovate to broadly ovate below, 2–10 cm long, or the upper lance-oblong and much smaller, acute at apex and rounded or truncate to cordate at base, the margins unequally dentate and often angled or shallowly 3-lobed, stellate-pubescent on both sides; stipules linear, 5–6 mm long
Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
Inflorescences rather few-flowered; sepals 5–8 mm long, green; petals slightly shorter than the sepals
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Gynoecium Ovary
Ovary 3-celled
Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
Fruit 3–5 mm in diameter (excluding prickles), the body glabrous or nearly so, the prickles with scattered retrorse hairs.
Distribution
Grand Cayman. West Indies and continental tropical America. GRAND CAYMAN: Hitchcock; Millspaugh 1297; Proctor 15019.
Ecology
A common weed of waste ground, roadside thickets, and old fields.
[Cayman]

IUCN Red List of Threatened Species https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/101163071/206724168

Conservation
LC - least concern
[IUCN]

Extinction risk predictions for the world's flowering plants to support their conservation (2024). Bachman, S.P., Brown, M.J.M., Leão, T.C.C., Lughadha, E.N., Walker, B.E. https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/nph.19592

Conservation
Predicted extinction risk: not threatened. Confidence: confident
[AERP]

Uses

Use Materials
Used as material.
Use Medicines
Medical uses.
[UPFC]

Sources

  • Angiosperm Extinction Risk Predictions v1

    • Angiosperm Threat Predictions
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

  • Catálogo de Plantas y Líquenes de Colombia

    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Flora of the Cayman Islands

    • Flora of the Cayman Islands
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Herbarium Catalogue Specimens

    • Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

  • IUCN Categories

    • IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Science Photographs

    • Copyright applied to individual images

  • Useful Plants and Fungi of Colombia

    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0