Equisetum ramosissimum subsp. debile
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Distribution
Asia-Tropical: India present, Malesia to New Caledonia and Fiji present, Southern and Eastern Africa present, most of Asia present, southern China present, southern and central Europe present
India and southern China, throughout Malesia to New Caledonia and Fiji. Subsp. ramossisimum is known from southern and eastern Africa, southern and central Europe, andmost of Asia except Malesia.
Taxonomy
This taxon is here treated as a subspecies of Equisetum ramossisimum rather than as a distinct species because of extensive intergradation in the area of overlap between the two subspecies (Hauke 1963). Intermediate forms are reported from S China, India, and Ryukyu Islands .