Group: Dicot Rank: species Kind: Name of a new Taxon Herbarium Placement: Lehmann, lower, E, 80

Authors:

Linnaeus, Carl von

Published In: Species Plantarum 1: 3. 1753. (1 May 1753) (Sp. Pl.)
Annotation: nom. et typ. cons. [see Brummitt, Taxon 49(2): 276-277 (2000)]

Type-Protologue

Locality: Habitat in India

Distribution: West Indies (Virgin Islands)

Type Specimens

• CT: F. R. Fosberg - 56776 - BM. (BM)
• CT: Fosberg 56776; 30 May 1977; Virgin Islands: St. Croix, Teague Bay, West Indies Laboratory. CT proposed by Whitehouse, Taxon 47: 873 (1998); recommended in Taxon 49: 276-277 (2000)
• LT: LT designated by Fosberg, Smithsonian Contr. Bot. 39: 4 (1978).

Higher Taxa:     Taxonomy Browser
Concept: Andean Bryophytes Bolivia Checklist Catalogue of New World Grasses Ecuador Catalogue Flora Mesoamericana Madagascar Catalogue Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Moss Flora of China Peru Checklist Philippine Bryophytes System    details

• class:  Equisetopsida C. Agardh
• subclass:  Magnoliidae Novák ex Takht.
• superorder:  Caryophyllanae Takht.
• order:  !Caryophyllales Juss. ex Bercht. & J. Presl
• family:  !!Nyctaginaceae Juss.
• genus:  Boerhavia L.

Other names for this basionym:

Boerhavia repens var. diffusa (L.) Hook. f.

**Boerhavia repens var. diffusum (L.) Heimerl ex Hook. f.

Projects: Antioquia , Bolivia , China , Costa Rica , Ecuador , Flora of Panama , Madagascar , Madidi Checklist , Mesoamericana , Nicaragua , Pakistan , Panama , Paraguay , Peru , VPA

Common Names:

• hierba de cabro (Spanish)
  • Ulloa Ulloa, C., H. M. Hernández, F. R. Barrie, G. Davidse & S. Knapp. (eds.) 2025. Fl. Mesoamer. 2(1): in press. Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis.
• huang xi xin
  • No References available
• red spiderling (English, United States)
  • Brako, L., A.Y. Rossman & D.F. Farr. 1995. Sci. Comm. Names 1–294.

Keywords: BOL, CEC, FCC, FM, FNA, FVG, MAD, FWT