Boerhavia elegans

Boerhavia elegans is a species of flowering plants in the four o'clock flower family, Nyctaginaceae.

Boerhavia elegans
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Order:	Caryophyllales
Family:	Nyctaginaceae
Genus:	Boerhavia
Species:	B. elegans
Binomial name
Boerhavia elegans Choisy[1]
Subspecies
Boerhavia elegans subsp. stenophylla (Boiss.) A.G. Mill., 1994[2] Boerhavia elegans var. stenophylla Boiss., 1879[3]
Synonyms
Boerhavia rubicunda Steud. ex Heimerl

It is one of the species that compose the "tortoise turf", the food source of the Aldabra giant tortoise, of the Aldabra Atoll in the Seychelles.

References

1. Choisy, Jacques Denys (Denis) Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis 13(2): 453. 1849
2. A.G. Mill. Edinburgh J. Bot. 51(1): 40 1994
3. Boiss. Fl. Orient. 4: 1046 1879

External links

• Boerhavia elegans at the International Plant Names Index (IPNI)
• Boerhavia elegans at Tropicos