Indeterminate origin, herb species. Cryptogenic weed.
Other common names
Alyce Clover en, One-leaf Clover en, Buffalo Clover en, Cistern Pea Nut en, Buffalo-bur en, Lian Jia Dou zh.
Distribution
Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, Barbados, Belize, Benin, Bhutan, Bolivia, Brazil, British Indian Ocean Territory, British Virgin Islands, Brunei, Burkina Faso, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Caribbean Netherlands, Cayman Islands, Chad, China, Christmas Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Colombia, Comoros, Cook Islands, Costa Rica, Cuba, Curaçao, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Eswatini, Fiji, French Guiana, French Polynesia, Gabon, Ghana, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guam, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Japan, Kenya, Laos, Macau, Madagascar, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Martinique, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mayotte, Mexico, Micronesia, Montserrat, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nauru, Nepal, New Caledonia, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Northern Mariana Islands, Oman, Pakistan, Palau, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Reunion, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Saint-Barthelemy, Saint-Martin, Samoa, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Sint Maarten, Solomon Islands, South Africa, South Sudan, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Suriname, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, The Gambia, Timor-Leste, Togo, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, U.S. Virgin Islands, Uganda, United States, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Vietnam, Wallis and Futuna, Yemen and Zimbabwe.
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