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Boerhavia

The genus Boerhavia is in the family Nyctaginaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Boerhavia

See "Status", "Confidence level", "Source" for definitions.

Name Status Confi­dence level Source
Boerhavia acutifolia (Choisy) J.W.Moore Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Boerhavia africana Lour. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Boerhavia alamasona Rose Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Boerhavia alata S.Watson Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Boerhavia albiflora Fosberg Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Boerhavia ambigua (Meikle) Govaerts Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Boerhavia angustifolia L. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Boerhavia anisophylla Torr. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Boerhavia arabica (Meikle) Govaerts Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Boerhavia australis (Meikle) Govaerts Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Boerhavia boissieri Heimerl ex Vierh. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Boerhavia bracteosa S.Watson Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Boerhavia brandegeei (Standl.) Govaerts Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Boerhavia burbidgeana Hewson Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Boerhavia capitata (Choisy) Heimerl Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Boerhavia chinensis (L.) Rottb. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Boerhavia chrysantha Barneby Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Boerhavia ciliata Brandegee Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Boerhavia coccinea Mill. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Boerhavia cordobensis Kuntze ex Heimerl Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Boerhavia coulteri (Hook.f.) S.Watson Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Boerhavia crassifolia (Heimerl) Govaerts Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Boerhavia crispa F.Heyne ex Hook.f. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Boerhavia crispifolia Fosberg Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Boerhavia decipiens (Meikle) Govaerts Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Boerhavia deserticola Codd Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Boerhavia diandra L. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Boerhavia dichotoma Hochst. ex Walp. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Boerhavia diffusa L. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Boerhavia discolor Kunth Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Boerhavia elegans Choisy Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Boerhavia erecta L. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Boerhavia fallacissima Heimerl ex Schinz Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Boerhavia fistulosa Fosberg Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Boerhavia gardneri Hewson Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Boerhavia glabrata Blume Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Boerhavia glandulosa Andersson Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Boerhavia gracillima Heimerl Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Boerhavia graminicola Berhaut Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Boerhavia grandiflora A.Rich. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Boerhavia greenwayi (Meikle) Govaerts Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Boerhavia heimerlii Vierh. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Boerhavia helenae Roem. & Schult. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Boerhavia herbstii Fosberg Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Boerhavia hereroensis Heimerl Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Boerhavia heronensis Govaerts Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Boerhavia hiranensis (Thulin) Govaerts Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Boerhavia hirsuta L. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Boerhavia hitchcockii Standl. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Boerhavia hualienensis Shih H.Chen & M.J.Wu Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Boerhavia lantsangensis (D.Q.Lu) Govaerts Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Boerhavia lateriflora Standl. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Boerhavia libyca Pomel Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Boerhavia linearifolia A.Gray Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Boerhavia litoralis Kunth Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Boerhavia maculata Standl. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Boerhavia megaptera Standl. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Boerhavia mista (Thulin) Govaerts Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Boerhavia montana (Miré, H.Gillet & Quézel) Govaerts Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Boerhavia mutabilis R.Br. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Boerhavia octandra S.Watson Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Boerhavia organensis Standl. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Boerhavia paludosa (Domin) Meikle Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Boerhavia parviflora (Thulin) Govaerts Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Boerhavia patula Dombey ex Vahl Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Boerhavia pedunculosa A.Rich. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Boerhavia pentandra Burch. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Boerhavia periplocifolia Comm. ex Vahl Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Boerhavia pilosa (Heimerl) Govaerts Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Boerhavia plicata Bojer Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Boerhavia plumbaginea Cav. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Boerhavia procumbens Banks ex Roxb. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Boerhavia pulchella Griseb. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Boerhavia punarnava Saha & K.H.Krishnam. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Boerhavia purpurascens A.Gray Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Boerhavia ramosissima (Thulin) Govaerts Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Boerhavia raynalii (J.-P.Lebrun & Meikle) Govaerts Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Boerhavia reniformis Chiov. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Boerhavia repens L. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Boerhavia repleta Hewson Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Boerhavia rosei Standl. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Boerhavia rufopilosa Kuntze Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Boerhavia scandens L. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Boerhavia schinzii Heimerl ex Schinz Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Boerhavia schomburgkiana Oliv. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Boerhavia simonyi Heimerl & Vierh. ex Vierh. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Boerhavia sinuata (Meikle) Greuter & Burdet Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Boerhavia sonorae Rose Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Boerhavia spicata Choisy Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Boerhavia squarrosa Heimerl Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Boerhavia stellata Bojer Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Boerhavia stenocarpa Chiov. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Boerhavia tarapacana Phil. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Boerhavia tetrandra G.Forst. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Boerhavia transvaalensis Gand. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Boerhavia traubae Spellenb. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Boerhavia triquetra S.Watson Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Boerhavia tsarisbergensis Govaerts Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Boerhavia tuberosa Lam. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Boerhavia verbenacea Killip Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Boerhavia virgata Kunth Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Boerhavia weberbaueri Heimerl Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Boerhavia wrightii A.Gray Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Boerhavia xantii S.Watson Accepted M WCSP (in review)

Statistics

The Plant List includes 208 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Boerhavia. Of these 104 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 72 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Boerhavia. We do not intend The Plant List to be complete for names of infraspecific rank. These are primarily included because names of species rank are synonyms of accepted infraspecific names.

Species names

The status of the 208 species names for the genus Boerhavia recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 104 50.0%
Synonym 86 41.3%
Unplaced 7 3.4%
Unassessed 11 5.3%

All names

The status of the 280 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Boerhavia recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 107 38.2%
Synonym 154 55.0%
Unplaced 7 2.5%
Unassessed 12 4.3%

Of these names,

A further 1 name records indicate where names have been misapplied.

The confidence with which the status of the 208 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Boerhavia, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Total
High confidence 0 0 0 0 0 0%
Medium confidence 104 85 0 0 189 90.9%
Low confidence 0 1 7 11 19 9.1%

The source of the species name record found in The Plant List for the genus Boerhavia, are as follows:

Source of record Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Misapplied Total
Tropicos 0 4 0 4 0 8 3.8%
WCSP (in review) 104 82 7 7 1 201 96.6%