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Boerhavia diffusa - Flowers - Click to enlarge!

Flowers; Petrolândia, Pernambuco, Brazil; 3/2014 © Christina Niegl

Boerhavia diffusa - Flower buds and ripening fruits - Click to enlarge!

Flower buds and ripening fruits; Petrolândia, Pernambuco, Brazil; 3/2014 © Christina Niegl

Boerhavia diffusa - Infructescence - Click to enlarge!

Infructescence; Petrolândia, Pernambuco, Brazil; 3/2014 © Christina Niegl

Boerhavia diffusa - Upper surface of leaf - Click to enlarge!

Upper surface of leaf; Petrolândia, Pernambuco, Brazil; 3/2014 © Christina Niegl

Boerhavia diffusa - Habit - Click to enlarge!

Habit; Petrolândia, Pernambuco, Brazil; 3/2014 © Christina Niegl

Boerhavia diffusa - Habit - Click to enlarge!

Habit; Petrolândia, Pernambuco, Brazil; 3/2014 © Christina Niegl

Dataset

Identifier: 2204
Date of entry: 25.03.2014
Last update: 11.01.2020

Classification

Kingdom: Plantae (2656)

  Phylum: Tracheophyta (2569)

    Class: Magnoliopsida (2165)

      Order: Caryophyllales (112)

        Family: Nyctaginaceae (4)(family description)

          Genus: Boerhavia (2)

            Epithet: diffusa L. (3)

diffusa => spread about, wildly or loosely spreading

Characteristics

Climate: tropical

Habit: herb

Flower colour: purple, red

External links

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