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Boerhavia erecta - Flowers - Click to enlarge!

Flowers; Valley View University, Oyibi, Ghana; 5/2007 © Jörn Germer

Boerhavia erecta - Inflorescence - Click to enlarge!

Inflorescence; Valley View University, Oyibi, Ghana; 5/2007 © Jörn Germer

Boerhavia erecta - Upper and lower surface of leaf - Click to enlarge!

Upper and lower surface of leaf; Valley View University, Oyibi, Ghana; 5/2007 © Jörn Germer

Boerhavia erecta - Habit - Click to enlarge!

Habit; Valley View University, Oyibi, Ghana; 5/2007 © Jörn Germer

Dataset

Identifier: 968
Date of entry: 30.10.2008
Last update: 11.01.2020

Common name

English: Erect Spiderling

Mandarin: 直立黄细心 (zhi li huang xi xin)

Classification

Kingdom: Plantae (2715)

  Phylum: Tracheophyta (2630)

    Class: Magnoliopsida (2217)

      Order: Caryophyllales (114)

        Family: Nyctaginaceae (4)(family description)

          Genus: Boerhavia (2)

            Epithet: erecta L. (8)

erecta => upright, perpendicular

Characteristics

Climate: tropical

Habitat: mesophytic

Habit: herb

Flower colour: pink, white

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