| Family |
Commelinaceae |
| Subfamily |
Commelinoideae |
| Tribe |
Commelineae |
| Scientific name |
Commelina communis L. |
| Synonyms |
Commelina communis L. forma aureostriata MacKeever; Commelina communis
L. var. ludens (Miquel) C. B. Clarke; Commelina coreana H. Léveillé &
Vaniot; Commelina ludens Miquel; Commelina willdenovii Kunth |
| Common name |
(Japanese common name) tsuyu kusa (ツユクサ, 露草 [meaning: dewdrop weed]) |
| (English common name) Asiatic dayflower |
| Distribution |
(Japan) Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu, Okinawa |
| (Other nations) Russia, Korea, China, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam, Laos,
Malaysia |
| Habitat |
Roadside, forest edge, farm yard |
| Chromosomal number |
2n=48, 90 |
| Description |
Plants 20-50cm tall. Leaves 5-8cm long, 10-25mm wide. Flowers blue (merely
white or purple) upper 2 petals each 10-13mm long, flowering in June to
October. Seeds 7-8mm long. Annual plants. |
| Reference |
Commelina communis L. |
| Commelina communis Linnaeus |
| Commelina communis L. |
| Herbicide for use in transplanted rice (US Patent 3955959/1976) |
| Tetrahydrophthalamide derivatives (US Patent 4328367/1982) |
| High-loaded ammonium glyphosate formulations (US Patent 5998332/1999) |
| Optically active uracil compounds (US Patent 6391826/2002) |
| Methods for modulating water-use efficiency or productivity in a plant by transforming with a DNA encoding a NAPD-malic enzyme operably linked to a guard cell or an epidermal cell promoter (US Patent 6653535/2003) |
| Medicinal herbal compounds for the prevention and treatment of diabetes (US Patent 6551627/2003) |
| Stabilized concentrated formulations for enhancing plant defensive responses (US Patent 6649566/2003) |
| Medicinal herbal compounds for the prevention and treatment of diabetes (US Patent 6770307/2004) |
| Gene encoding a protein having acyl group transfer activity (US Patent 7105719/2006) |
| Process for producing pyridine compound (US Patent 7157579/2007) |
| Herb extract-based cosmeceutical cream for controlling the blood sugar level of diabetes and methods for making it (US Patent 20050048144) |
| Cosmetic composition and production thereof (US Patent 20060018867) |
| Note |
common |
