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Commelina communis

Plant photographs and field observations.

Tropical rainforest vegetation at Singapore Botanic Gardens
Photo: Daniel Case, CC BY-SA 4.0

Species notes

About Commelina communis

Commelina communis (also recorded as Asiatic dayflower) is an accepted species in the family Commelinaceae, within the order Commelinales. Checklist records aggregated by GBIF list it from Amur, Buryatiya, Cambodia, China South-Central, Hainan, Inner Mongolia, Manchuria, and China North-Central. The photographs can be compared for visible features such as growth habit, leaf arrangement, stems, flowers and fruit.

Common name
Asiatic dayflower
Family
Commelinaceae
Order
Commelinales
Identification rank
Species
Recorded distribution
Amur, Buryatiya, Cambodia, China South-Central, Hainan, Inner Mongolia, Manchuria, China North-Central

Taxonomy source: GBIF Backbone Taxonomy