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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

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

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

• 4 are recorded as invalid
• 6 are recorded as illegitimate

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: