Boerhavia rubicunda Steud.

 
  • Family : NYCTAGINACEAE
    (Four-O'clock Family)
  • Family (Hindi name) : BOOGANBEL FAMILY (बूगनबेल फैमिली)
  • Family (as per The APG System III) : NYCTAGINACEAE
  • Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Boerhavia elegans Choisy
  • Habit : Shrub
  • Comments / notes : In the outskirts of forests. Rare. The leaves are curiously mottled with white when dry
  • Key identification features : Shrubby plant; root stock woody
  • Flower, Fruit : October-March
  • Distribution :
    • Maharashtra : Buldhana district
  • Literature : N.P. Singh, P. Lakshminarasimhan, S. Karthikeyan & P. V. Prasanna (2001). Flora of Maharashtra state, Dicotyledones. Vol. 2.pp.773. Botanical survey of India, Govt. India.
  • Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Raja K Swamy, Deepak Kumar, Arun Singh R. and K. Gopalakrishna Bhat (2019). Flora of Peninsular India. http://peninsula.ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Boerhavia rubicunda. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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