Taxon:  Acanthospermum australe (Loefl.) Kuntze



Summary
Genus:
Acanthospermum
Family:
Asteraceae (alt. Compositae)
Subfamily:
Asteroideae
Tribe:
Millerieae
Nomen number:
316532
Place of publication:
Revis. gen. pl. 1:303.  1891
Verified:
02/23/2012 ARS Systematic Botanists.
Accessions:
0 (0  active, 0  available) in National Plant Germplasm System. 
Other conspecific taxa
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Basionym
Melampodium australe Loefl.

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Acanthospermum brasilum Schrank
Acanthospermum xanthioides (Kunth) DC.
Acanthospermum xanthioides (Kunth) DC. var. xanthioides
Centrospermum xanthioides Kunth

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Conservation Status

Reference(s)
  1. Botanical Society of the British Isles. BSBI taxon database (on-line resource).
  2. Burkart, A. E., ed. 1969-. Flora ilustrada de Entre Rios.
  3. Dubs, B. 1998. Prodromus florae matogrossensis. Botany of Mato Grosso, series B, no. 3.
  4. FNA Editorial Committee. 1993-. Flora of North America.
  5. Forzza, R. C. et al., coord. Lista de espécies da flora do Brasil (on-line resource).
  6. Funk, V. et al. 2007. Checklist of the plants of the Guiana Shield (Venezuela: Amazonas, Bolivar, Delta Amacuro; Guyana, Surinam, French Guiana). Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 55:1-584.
  7. Germishuizen, G. & N. L. Meyer, eds. 2003. Plants of southern Africa: an annotated checklist. Strelitzia 14 National Botanical Institute, Pretoria, South Africa.
  8. Hnatiuk, R. J. 1990. Census of Australian vascular plants. Australian Flora and Fauna Series No. 11.
  9. Hokche, O. et al. 2008. Nuevo catálogo de la flora vascular de Venezuela.
  10. Holm, L. et al. 1979. A geographical atlas of world weeds
  11. Howard, R. 1974-1989. Flora of the lesser Antilles.
  12. Institute of Pacific Islands Forestry. Pacific Island Ecosystems at Risk (PIER): plant threats to Pacific ecosystems (on-line resource).
  13. Instituto de Botánica Darwinion. 2008. Flora del Conosur. Catálogo de las plantas vasculares.
  14. Lazarides, M. & B. Hince. 1993. CSIRO Handbook of Economic Plants of Australia
  15. McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2 American Herbal Products Association, Silver Spring, Maryland.
  16. Radford, A. E. et al., eds. 1980-. Vascular flora of the southeastern United States.
  17. Steyermark, J. A. et al., eds. 1995-. Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana. Note: Missouri Botanical Garden & Timber Press
  18. Zuloaga, F. O. & O. Morrone, eds. 1996, 1999. Catálogo de las plantas vasculares de la República Argentina. I. Pteridophyta, Gymnospermae y Angiospermae (Monocotyledonae), II. Dicotyledonae. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 60, 74.
Common names
LanguageNameAlternate namenoteseqCitation
EnglishParaguay-bur  1Lazarides, M. & B. Hince. 1993. CSIRO Handbook of Economic Plants of Australia
EnglishParaguay-starbur  1McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2 American Herbal Products Association, Silver Spring, Maryland.
Englishsheepbur  1Radford, A. E. et al., eds. 1980-. Vascular flora of the southeastern United States.
Englishspiny-bur  1Botanical Society of the British Isles. BSBI taxon database (on-line resource).
Distribution
order_codeStatusContinentSubcontinentCountryStateNoteReference
1NativeSouthern AmericaBrazilBrazil  Forzza, R. C. et al., coord. Lista de espécies da flora do Brasil (on-line resource).
1NativeSouthern AmericaCaribbeanGrenada  Howard, R. 1974-1989. Flora of the lesser Antilles.
1NativeSouthern AmericaCaribbeanMartinique  Howard, R. 1974-1989. Flora of the lesser Antilles.
1NativeSouthern AmericaCaribbeanSt. Vincent and Grenadines  Howard, R. 1974-1989. Flora of the lesser Antilles.
1NativeSouthern AmericaNorthern South AmericaFrench Guiana  Funk, V. et al. 2007. Checklist of the plants of the Guiana Shield (Venezuela: Amazonas, Bolivar, Delta Amacuro; Guyana, Surinam, French Guiana). Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 55:1-584.
1NativeSouthern AmericaNorthern South AmericaGuyana  Funk, V. et al. 2007. Checklist of the plants of the Guiana Shield (Venezuela: Amazonas, Bolivar, Delta Amacuro; Guyana, Surinam, French Guiana). Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 55:1-584.
1NativeSouthern AmericaNorthern South AmericaSuriname  Funk, V. et al. 2007. Checklist of the plants of the Guiana Shield (Venezuela: Amazonas, Bolivar, Delta Amacuro; Guyana, Surinam, French Guiana). Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 55:1-584.
1NativeSouthern AmericaNorthern South AmericaVenezuela  Hokche, O. et al. 2008. Nuevo catálogo de la flora vascular de Venezuela.
1NativeSouthern AmericaSouthern South AmericaArgentinaBuenos Aires Zuloaga, F. O. & O. Morrone, eds. 1996, 1999. Catálogo de las plantas vasculares de la República Argentina. I. Pteridophyta, Gymnospermae y Angiospermae (Monocotyledonae), II. Dicotyledonae. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 60, 74.
1NativeSouthern AmericaSouthern South AmericaArgentinaCorrientes Zuloaga, F. O. & O. Morrone, eds. 1996, 1999. Catálogo de las plantas vasculares de la República Argentina. I. Pteridophyta, Gymnospermae y Angiospermae (Monocotyledonae), II. Dicotyledonae. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 60, 74.
1NativeSouthern AmericaSouthern South AmericaArgentinaEntre Ríos Zuloaga, F. O. & O. Morrone, eds. 1996, 1999. Catálogo de las plantas vasculares de la República Argentina. I. Pteridophyta, Gymnospermae y Angiospermae (Monocotyledonae), II. Dicotyledonae. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 60, 74.
1NativeSouthern AmericaSouthern South AmericaArgentinaMisiones Zuloaga, F. O. & O. Morrone, eds. 1996, 1999. Catálogo de las plantas vasculares de la República Argentina. I. Pteridophyta, Gymnospermae y Angiospermae (Monocotyledonae), II. Dicotyledonae. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 60, 74.
1NativeSouthern AmericaSouthern South AmericaArgentinaSanta Fe Zuloaga, F. O. & O. Morrone, eds. 1996, 1999. Catálogo de las plantas vasculares de la República Argentina. I. Pteridophyta, Gymnospermae y Angiospermae (Monocotyledonae), II. Dicotyledonae. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 60, 74.
1NativeSouthern AmericaSouthern South AmericaParaguay  Instituto de Botánica Darwinion. 2008. Flora del Conosur. Catálogo de las plantas vasculares.
1NativeSouthern AmericaSouthern South AmericaUruguay  Zuloaga, F. O. & O. Morrone, eds. 1996, 1999. Catálogo de las plantas vasculares de la República Argentina. I. Pteridophyta, Gymnospermae y Angiospermae (Monocotyledonae), II. Dicotyledonae. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 60, 74.
1NativeSouthern AmericaWestern South AmericaBolivia  Instituto de Botánica Darwinion. 2008. Flora del Conosur. Catálogo de las plantas vasculares.
1NativeSouthern AmericaWestern South AmericaColombia  Steyermark, J. A. et al., eds. 1995-. Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana. Note: Missouri Botanical Garden & Timber Press
4NaturalizedAfricaSouthern AfricaEswatini  Germishuizen, G. & N. L. Meyer, eds. 2003. Plants of southern Africa: an annotated checklist. Strelitzia 14 National Botanical Institute, Pretoria, South Africa.
4NaturalizedAfricaSouthern AfricaSouth Africa  Germishuizen, G. & N. L. Meyer, eds. 2003. Plants of southern Africa: an annotated checklist. Strelitzia 14 National Botanical Institute, Pretoria, South Africa.
4NaturalizedAustralasiaAustraliaAustraliaNew South Wales Hnatiuk, R. J. 1990. Census of Australian vascular plants. Australian Flora and Fauna Series No. 11.
4NaturalizedNorthern America Mexico  FNA Editorial Committee. 1993-. Flora of North America.
4NaturalizedNorthern AmericaNortheastern U.S.A.United StatesMassachusetts FNA Editorial Committee. 1993-. Flora of North America.
4NaturalizedNorthern AmericaNortheastern U.S.A.United StatesPennsylvania FNA Editorial Committee. 1993-. Flora of North America.
4NaturalizedNorthern AmericaNorthwestern U.S.A.United StatesOregon FNA Editorial Committee. 1993-. Flora of North America.
4NaturalizedNorthern AmericaSouth-Central U.S.A.United StatesTexas FNA Editorial Committee. 1993-. Flora of North America.
4NaturalizedNorthern AmericaSoutheastern U.S.A.United StatesAlabama FNA Editorial Committee. 1993-. Flora of North America.
4NaturalizedNorthern AmericaSoutheastern U.S.A.United StatesArkansas FNA Editorial Committee. 1993-. Flora of North America.
4NaturalizedNorthern AmericaSoutheastern U.S.A.United StatesDistrict of Columbia FNA Editorial Committee. 1993-. Flora of North America.
4NaturalizedNorthern AmericaSoutheastern U.S.A.United StatesFlorida FNA Editorial Committee. 1993-. Flora of North America.
4NaturalizedNorthern AmericaSoutheastern U.S.A.United StatesGeorgia FNA Editorial Committee. 1993-. Flora of North America.
4NaturalizedNorthern AmericaSoutheastern U.S.A.United StatesLouisiana FNA Editorial Committee. 1993-. Flora of North America.
4NaturalizedNorthern AmericaSoutheastern U.S.A.United StatesMississippi FNA Editorial Committee. 1993-. Flora of North America.
4NaturalizedNorthern AmericaSoutheastern U.S.A.United StatesNorth Carolina FNA Editorial Committee. 1993-. Flora of North America.
4NaturalizedNorthern AmericaSoutheastern U.S.A.United StatesSouth Carolina FNA Editorial Committee. 1993-. Flora of North America.
4NaturalizedNorthern AmericaSoutheastern U.S.A.United StatesVirginia FNA Editorial Committee. 1993-. Flora of North America.
4NaturalizedPacificNorth-Central PacificUnited StatesHawaii Institute of Pacific Islands Forestry. Pacific Island Ecosystems at Risk (PIER): plant threats to Pacific ecosystems (on-line resource).
6Other    exact native range in Americas obscure 
Native
Southern America
  • CARIBBEAN: Grenada, Martinique, St. Vincent and Grenadines
  • NORTHERN SOUTH AMERICA: French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, Venezuela
  • BRAZIL: Brazil
  • WESTERN SOUTH AMERICA: Bolivia, Colombia
  • SOUTHERN SOUTH AMERICA: Argentina [Buenos Aires, Corrientes, Entre Ríos, Misiones, Santa Fe], Paraguay, Uruguay
Naturalized
Africa
  • SOUTHERN AFRICA: Eswatini, South Africa
Australasia
  • AUSTRALIA: Australia [New South Wales]
Northern America
  • NORTHEASTERN U.S.A.: United States [Massachusetts, Pennsylvania]
  • NORTHWESTERN U.S.A.: United States [Oregon]
  • SOUTHEASTERN U.S.A.: United States [Alabama, Arkansas, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, Mississippi]
  • SOUTH-CENTRAL U.S.A.: United States [Texas]
  • REGION: Mexico
Pacific
  • NORTH-CENTRAL PACIFIC: United States [Hawaii]
Other (exact native range in Americas obscure)

Reference(s)
  1. FNA Editorial Committee. 1993-. Flora of North America.
  2. Forzza, R. C. et al., coord. Lista de espécies da flora do Brasil (on-line resource).
  3. Funk, V. et al. 2007. Checklist of the plants of the Guiana Shield (Venezuela: Amazonas, Bolivar, Delta Amacuro; Guyana, Surinam, French Guiana). Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 55:1-584.
  4. Germishuizen, G. & N. L. Meyer, eds. 2003. Plants of southern Africa: an annotated checklist. Strelitzia 14 National Botanical Institute, Pretoria, South Africa.
  5. Hnatiuk, R. J. 1990. Census of Australian vascular plants. Australian Flora and Fauna Series No. 11.
  6. Hokche, O. et al. 2008. Nuevo catálogo de la flora vascular de Venezuela.
  7. Howard, R. 1974-1989. Flora of the lesser Antilles.
  8. Institute of Pacific Islands Forestry. Pacific Island Ecosystems at Risk (PIER): plant threats to Pacific ecosystems (on-line resource).
  9. Instituto de Botánica Darwinion. 2008. Flora del Conosur. Catálogo de las plantas vasculares.
  10. Steyermark, J. A. et al., eds. 1995-. Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana. Note: Missouri Botanical Garden & Timber Press
  11. Zuloaga, F. O. & O. Morrone, eds. 1996, 1999. Catálogo de las plantas vasculares de la República Argentina. I. Pteridophyta, Gymnospermae y Angiospermae (Monocotyledonae), II. Dicotyledonae. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 60, 74.
Economic Uses
UsageTypeNoteReference
Medicinesfolklore McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2 American Herbal Products Association, Silver Spring, Maryland.
Weedseed contaminantpotential; common in several countriesHolm, L. et al. 1979. A geographical atlas of world weeds
Cite as: USDA, Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System. 2026. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN Taxonomy). National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
URL: https://npgsweb.ars-grin.gov/gringlobal/taxon/taxonomydetail?id=316532. Accessed 14 October 2026.