Persicaria nepalensis

Persicaria nepalensis is a species of flowering plant in the family Polygonaceae, native to eastern Africa, including Madagascar, and parts of Asia. It has been introduced elsewhere: parts of Europe (including Great Britain), North America (including British Columbia, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York and Pennsylvania) and northern South America.[2] The species was first described as Polygonum nepalense by Carl Meissner in 1826, and transferred to Persicaria by Hugo Gross in 1913.[1] (The same transfer was made later, in 1934, by Kingo Miyabe; as of 3 May 2019, Plants of the World Online used this transfer for the authorship of the combination.[2])

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  White flowers
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  Pink flowers

Persicaria nepalensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Order:	Caryophyllales
Family:	Polygonaceae
Genus:	Persicaria
Species:	P. nepalensis
Binomial name
Persicaria nepalensis (Meisn.) H.Gross[1]
Synonyms[2]
Cephalophilon nepalense (Meisn.) Tzvelev Persicaria alata (D.Don) Nakai Persicaria lyrata (Nakai) Nakai Persicaria perforata (Meisn.) H.Gross Polygonum alatum (D.Don) Buch.-Ham. ex Spreng. Polygonum guttuliferum Miq. ex Meisn. Polygonum lyratum Nakai Polygonum nepalense Meisn. Polygonum perforatum Meisn.

References

1. "Plant Name Details for Persicaria nepalensis (Meisn.) H.Gross", The International Plant Names Index, retrieved 2019-05-03
2. "Persicaria nepalensis (Meisn.) Miyabe", Plants of the World Online, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, retrieved 2019-05-03