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Tropical Chinchweed
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Tropical Chinchweed

Pectis elongata

Pectis elongata (tropical cinchweed) is a summer blooming annual plant of the genus Pectis, found in the West Indies as well as in South and Central America. Tropical cinchweed is burned as a mosquito repellent.

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 281666.