EPPO Global Database

Asystasia gangetica(ASYCO)

Overview
Code created in: 1998-06-20

Basic information
  • EPPO Code: ASYCO
  • Preferred name: Asystasia gangetica
  • Authority: (Linnaeus) Anderson

Notes

India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Indochina (except Laos), New Guinea, Australia (Western, Northern, Queensland). Cultivated as a houseplant. Introduced in Malesia (Malaya), China, Angola, USA (Florida), Central America, Caribbean, Venezuela, eastern Brazil


Other scientific names
Name Authority
Asystasia coromandeliana Nees
Justicia gangetica Linnaeus

Common names
Name Language
Chinese violet English (US)
coromandel English
creeping foxglove English
Ganges primrose English
herbe piment French
herbe pistache French
азистазия гангская Russian