Present on Pacific Islands?  yes

Primarily a threat at high elevations?  no

Common name(s): [more details]

French: balai savane

Samoan: mautofu

Spanish: escoba, escoba de palma, escoba negra

Habit:  shrub

Description:  "Erect subshrubs 0.5-1 m tall, with distichous branching and leaf arrangement, the stems arched, stellate-pubescent and sometimes with simple hairs ca 1 mm long.  Leaves short-petiolate or subsessile, the blades lanceolate or elliptic, serrate, acute, sparsely ciliate, the leaves sometimes appearing imbricate because of short internodes and distichous arrangement; stipules broadly falcate, several-nerved, ciliate.  Flowers subsessile or with short pedicels, solitary or glomerulate in the leaf axils; calyx 4-5 mm long, ciliate; corolla 6-8 mm long, white or yellowish.  Fruits subglabrous; mericarps 5, blackish, with 2 apical spines"  (Fryxell, 1992; p. 105).

Habitat/ecology:  "Deciduous forests, roadsides, river banks, disturbed vegetation, 50-200 m" (Steyermark et al., 1995; vol. 6, p. 215).

Propagation:  Seed

Native range:  West Indies and Nicaragua to Bolivia and Paraguay (Fryxell, 1992; p. 105).

Presence:

Pacific
Country/Terr./St. & Island group	Location	Cited status & Cited as invasive & Cited as cultivated & Cited as aboriginal introduction?	Reference & Comments
Samoa Western Samoa Islands	Western Samoa Islands		Swarbrick, John T. (1997) (p. 96)

Pacific Rim
Country/Terr./St. & Island group	Location	Cited status & Cited as invasive & Cited as cultivated & Cited as aboriginal introduction?	Reference & Comments
Central America Central America (Pacific rim)	Costa Rica (Republic of)	native	U.S. Dept. Agr., Agr. Res. Serv. (2013)
Central America Central America (Pacific rim)	Nicaragua (Republic of)	native	U.S. Dept. Agr., Agr. Res. Serv. (2013)
Central America Central America (Pacific rim)	Panama (Republic of)	native	U.S. Dept. Agr., Agr. Res. Serv. (2013)
South America (Pacific rim) South America (Pacific rim)	Colombia	native	U.S. Dept. Agr., Agr. Res. Serv. (2013)
South America (Pacific rim) South America (Pacific rim)	Ecuador (Republic of) (continental)	native	U.S. Dept. Agr., Agr. Res. Serv. (2013)
South America (Pacific rim) South America (Pacific rim)	Perú (Republic of)	native	U.S. Dept. Agr., Agr. Res. Serv. (2013)

Control:  If you know of control methods for Sida glomerata, please let us know.