| Accepted name: |
Xanthium strumarium L. |
| Synonym(s): |
-Xanthium americanum Walter
-Xanthium italicum Moretti
-Xanthium echinatum Murray
-Xanthium chinense Miller
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| English names: |
Cocklebur
Tumor-curing Cocklebur
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| French names: |
Lampourde glouteron
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| Classification: |
Kingdom: Plantae
Divison: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
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| OPL Code: |
HANTST
(to track OPL, Newmaster et al. 1998) |
| Lifeform: |
2 |
| Lifecycle: |
A |
| Source database: |
FOIBIS, June 2005-2012 |
| Floristic Affinities: |
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| Distribution: |
-
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| Ecosystem: |
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| Microhabitat: |
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| Ethnobotanical Notes: |
Formerly cultivated as a vegetable in China (the young flowering shoots were eaten). After World War II cultivated experimentally in the Germany as an oil and fibre plant. The fruits contain 36% oil and 46% raw protein(1). |
| Key Characters: |
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