Bidens biternata (Lour.) Merr. & Sherff

Native to:

Afghanistan, Angola, Assam, Benin, Botswana, Burkina, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Provinces, Central African Repu, Chad, China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Free State, Ghana, Guinea, Hainan, India, Ivory Coast, Japan, Jawa, Kenya, Korea, KwaZulu-Natal, Laccadive Is., Lesotho, Manchuria, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nansei-shoto, Nepal, New Guinea, Northern Provinces, Northern Territory, Oman, Pakistan, Philippines, Queensland, Saudi Arabia, Socotra, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Tonga, Uganda, Vietnam, West Himalaya, Western Australia, Yemen, Zambia, Zaïre, Zimbabwe

Introduced into:

Cape Verde, Fiji, France, Gabon, Great Britain, Madeira, Réunion

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

• Balkrishna, A. (2018). Flora of Morni Hills (Research & Possibilities): 1-581. Divya Yoga Mandir Trust.
• Barooah, C. & Ahmed, I. (2014). Plant diversity of Assam. A checklist of Angiosperms and Gymnosperms: 1-599. Assam science technology and environment council, India.
• Beentje, H.J. (2021). Flore du Gabon 56: 1-148. Muséum National D'Histoire Naturelle, Paris.
• Chou, S., Chhnang, P. & Kim, Y. (2016). A Checklist for the Seed Plants of Cambodia: 1-272. National Institute of Biological Resources, Korea.
• Ghafoor, A. & al. (2021). Flora of Pakistan 224: 1-310. Department of Botany, University of Karachi, Karachi.
• 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].
• Kotiya, A., Solanki, Y. & Reddy, G.V. (2020). Flora of Rajasthan: 1-769. Rajasthan state biodiversity board.
• Koyama, H., Bunwong, S., Pornpongrungrueng, P. & Hind, D.J.N. (2016). Flora of Thailand 13(2): 143-428. The Forest Herbarium, Royal Forest Department.
• Roskov Y. & al. (eds.) (2018). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands.

Flora of West Tropical Africa

• B. bipinnata of Chev. Bot. 373, partly (Chev. 21959), not of Linn.
• Coreopsis biternata Lour. (1780)
• Sherff in Publ. Field Mus. 16: 388, t. 99.
• in Bot. Gaz. 88: 293 (1929)

Kew Backbone Distributions

• Balkrishna, A. (2018). Flora of Morni Hills (Research & Possibilities): 1-581. Divya Yoga Mandir Trust.
• Barooah, C. & Ahmed, I. (2014). Plant diversity of Assam. A checklist of Angiosperms and Gymnosperms: 1-599. Assam science technology and environment council, India.
• Beentje, H.J. (2021). Flore du Gabon 56: 1-148. Muséum National D'Histoire Naturelle, Paris.
• Chou, S., Chhnang, P. & Kim, Y. (2016). A Checklist for the Seed Plants of Cambodia: 1-272. National Institute of Biological Resources, Korea.
• Ghazanfar, S.A. (1992). An Annotated Catalogue of the Vascular Plants of Oman and their Vernacular names. Scripta Botanica Belgica 2: 1-153.
• 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].

Flora of Somalia

• Flora Somalia, (2000) Author: by Mesfin Tadesse [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
• Mesfin Tadesse in Kew Bull. 48: 437–516 (1993).
• Mesfin Tadesse in Symb. Bot. Upsal. 24: 1–138 (1984)

Flora of Tropical East Africa

• A.D.Q. Agnew, Upland Kenya Wild Flowers p. 466 (1974).
• Agnew, A.D.Q. & Agnew, S., Upland Kenya Wild Flowers, ed. 2: 217, t. 89 (1994).
• C.D. Adams in Flora of West Tropical Africa ed. 2, 2: 234 (1963).
• Cufod., Enumeratio Plantarum Aethiopiae Spermatophyta (Supplement in Bull. Jard. Bot. Nat. Belg.) p. 1135 (1967).
• D.J.N. Hind in Fl. Masc. 109: 195, t. 66 (1993).
• F. W. Andr., The Flowering Plants of the Sudan 3: 12 (1956).
• Lisowski, Asterac. Fl. Afr. Centr. 1: 135 (1991).
• Maquet in Fl. Rwanda 3: 633 (1985).
• Merr. & Sherff in Bot. Gaz. 88: 293 (1929).
• Mesfin in Kew Bulletin 48: 498 (1993).
• Mesfin in Symb. Bot. Upsal. 24: 115, fig. 58 (1984).
• Sherff in Field Mus. Nat. Hist., Bot. Ser. 16: 388, fig. 99/a, c–m (1937).
• Wild in Kirkia 6: 26 (1967).