Boerhavia
Annual or perennial herbs, glabrous or glandular-hairy; rootstock often thick and fleshy or woody. Leaves opposite, petiolate. Inflorescence cymose, with flowers solitary, paired, clustered, or commonly, in simple or compound umbels; flowers small, bisexual; upper part of perianth petaloid, bell- or trumpet-shaped, shallowly 5–10-lobed, caducous; stamens 1–4, shorter than or shortly exceeding perianth; style simple, stigma capitate; ovary shortly stalked, enclosed by non-petaloid, lower part of perianth. Fruit 3–5-ribbed, often with short, glandular hairs.
About 20 species, mostly tropical; 12 native in Australia.
Walsh, N.G. (1996). Nyctaginaceae. In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J., Flora of Victoria Vol. 3, Dicotyledons Winteraceae to Myrtaceae, pp. 102–104. Inkata Press, Melbourne.
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