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Boerhavia elegans
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Order: Caryophyllales
Family: Nyctaginaceae
Genus: Boerhavia
Species:
B. elegans
Binomial name
Boerhavia elegans
Subspecies
  • Boerhavia elegans subsp. stenophylla (Boiss.) A.G. Mill., 1994[2]
  • Boerhavia elegans var. stenophylla Boiss., 1879[3]

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

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

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