Boerhavia

Accepted species 105 Documented here 22 Family Nyctaginaceae

Accepted species 105 in this genus

Every accepted species in the genus is listed. A name links to its page when we hold at least three commercially licensed photographs of it. Where we do not, the row shows how many we actually found, which is usually none.

SpeciesAuthority Usable photographsPage
Boerhavia coccinea Mill. 654 documented
Boerhavia erecta L. 277 documented
Boerhavia diffusa L. 205 documented
Boerhavia glabrata Blume 78 documented
Boerhavia linearifolia A.Gray 54 documented
Boerhavia plumbaginea Cav. 44 documented
Boerhavia spicata Choisy 44 documented
Boerhavia brandegeei (Standl.) Govaerts 43 documented
Boerhavia scandens L. 37 documented
Boerhavia repens L. 18 documented
Boerhavia tuberosa Lam. 18 documented
Boerhavia wrightii A.Gray 18 documented
Boerhavia gracillima Heimerl 15 documented
Boerhavia coulteri (Hook.f.) S.Watson 13 documented
Boerhavia triquetra S.Watson 13 documented
Boerhavia purpurascens A.Gray 8 documented
Boerhavia acutifolia (Choisy) J.W.Moore 7 documented
Boerhavia ciliata Brandegee 7 documented
Boerhavia elegans Choisy 6 documented
Boerhavia albiflora Fosberg 4 documented
Boerhavia helenae Schult. 4 documented
Boerhavia squarrosa Heimerl 3 documented
Boerhavia cordobensis Kuntze ex Heimerl 34 below the evidence gate
Boerhavia anisophylla Torr. 1 below the evidence gate
Boerhavia australis (Meikle) Govaerts 1 below the evidence gate
Boerhavia boissieri Heimerl 1 below the evidence gate
Boerhavia africana Lour. 0 below the evidence gate
Boerhavia alamasona Rose 0 below the evidence gate
Boerhavia alata S.Watson 0 below the evidence gate
Boerhavia ambigua (Meikle) Govaerts 0 below the evidence gate
Boerhavia angustifolia L. 0 below the evidence gate
Boerhavia arabica (Meikle) Govaerts 0 below the evidence gate
Boerhavia bracteosa S.Watson 0 below the evidence gate
Boerhavia burbidgeana Hewson 0 below the evidence gate
Boerhavia capitata Heimerl 0 below the evidence gate
Boerhavia chinensis (L.) Rottb. 0 below the evidence gate
Boerhavia chrysantha Barneby 0 below the evidence gate
Boerhavia crassifolia (Heimerl) Govaerts 0 below the evidence gate
Boerhavia crispa B.Heyne 0 below the evidence gate
Boerhavia crispifolia Fosberg 0 below the evidence gate
Boerhavia decipiens (Meikle) Govaerts 0 below the evidence gate
Boerhavia deserticola Codd 0 below the evidence gate
Boerhavia diandra L. 0 below the evidence gate
Boerhavia dichotoma Hochst. ex Walp. 0 below the evidence gate
Boerhavia discolor Kunth 0 below the evidence gate
Boerhavia fallacissima Heimerl ex Schinz 0 below the evidence gate
Boerhavia fistulosa Fosberg 0 below the evidence gate
Boerhavia gardneri Hewson 0 below the evidence gate
Boerhavia glandulosa Andersson 0 below the evidence gate
Boerhavia graminicola Berhaut 0 below the evidence gate
Boerhavia grandiflora A.Rich. 0 below the evidence gate
Boerhavia greenwayi (Meikle) Govaerts 0 below the evidence gate
Boerhavia heimerlii Vierh. 0 below the evidence gate
Boerhavia herbstii Fosberg 0 below the evidence gate
Boerhavia hereroensis Heimerl 0 below the evidence gate
Boerhavia heronensis Govaerts 0 below the evidence gate
Boerhavia hiranensis (Thulin) Govaerts 0 below the evidence gate
Boerhavia hirsuta L. 0 below the evidence gate
Boerhavia hitchcockii Standl. 0 below the evidence gate
Boerhavia hualienense S.H.Chen & M.J.Wu 0 below the evidence gate
Boerhavia hualienensis Shih H.Chen & M.J.Wu 0 below the evidence gate
Boerhavia lantsangensis (D.Q.Lu) Govaerts 0 below the evidence gate
Boerhavia lateriflora Standl. 0 below the evidence gate
Boerhavia libyca Pomel 0 below the evidence gate
Boerhavia litoralis Kunth 0 below the evidence gate
Boerhavia maculata Standl. 0 below the evidence gate
Boerhavia megaptera Standl. 0 below the evidence gate
Boerhavia mista (Thulin) Govaerts 0 below the evidence gate
Boerhavia montana (Miré, H.Gillet & Quézel) Govaerts 0 below the evidence gate
Boerhavia mutabilis R.Br. 0 below the evidence gate
Boerhavia octandra S.Watson 0 below the evidence gate
Boerhavia organensis Standl. 0 below the evidence gate
Boerhavia paludosa (Domin) Meikle 0 below the evidence gate
Boerhavia parviflora (Thulin) Govaerts 0 below the evidence gate
Boerhavia patula Domb. ex Vahl 0 below the evidence gate
Boerhavia pedunculosa A.Rich. 0 below the evidence gate
Boerhavia pentandra Burch. 0 below the evidence gate
Boerhavia periplocifolia Comm. ex Vahl 0 below the evidence gate
Boerhavia pilosa (Heimerl) Govaerts 0 below the evidence gate
Boerhavia plicata Bojer & Bojer 0 below the evidence gate
Boerhavia procumbens Banks ex Roxb. 0 below the evidence gate
Boerhavia pulchella Griseb. 0 below the evidence gate
Boerhavia punarnava Saha & Krishnam. 0 below the evidence gate
Boerhavia ramosissima (Thulin) Govaerts 0 below the evidence gate
Boerhavia raynalii (J.-P.Lebrun & Meikle) Govaerts 0 below the evidence gate
Boerhavia reniformis Chiov. 0 below the evidence gate
Boerhavia repleta Hewson 0 below the evidence gate
Boerhavia rosei Standl. 0 below the evidence gate
Boerhavia rufopilosa Kuntze 0 below the evidence gate
Boerhavia schinzii Heimerl ex Schinz 0 below the evidence gate
Boerhavia schomburgkiana Oliv. 0 below the evidence gate
Boerhavia simonyi Heimerl & Vierh. ex Vierh. 0 below the evidence gate
Boerhavia sinuata (Meikle) Greuter & Burdet 0 below the evidence gate
Boerhavia sonorae Rose 0 below the evidence gate
Boerhavia stellata Bojer & Bojer 0 below the evidence gate
Boerhavia stenocarpa Chiov. 0 below the evidence gate
Boerhavia tarapacana Phil. 0 below the evidence gate
Boerhavia tetrandra G.Forst. 0 below the evidence gate
Boerhavia transvaalensis Gand. 0 below the evidence gate
Boerhavia traubae Spellenb. 0 below the evidence gate
Boerhavia tsarisbergensis Govaerts 0 below the evidence gate
Boerhavia verbenacea Killip 0 below the evidence gate
Boerhavia virgata Kunth 0 below the evidence gate
Boerhavia weberbaueri Heimerl 0 below the evidence gate
Boerhavia xantii S.Watson 0 below the evidence gate

Why some species have no pagethe gate

This site is commercial, so it can only publish photographs licensed for commercial use. Roughly three quarters of the photographs on iNaturalist are CC BY-NC, which excludes them. A species needs at least three usable photographs before we will build it a page, because a page with one picture and no traits tells you nothing you could not get from a search result, and generating hundreds of thousands of those is precisely the practice that got the previous version of this site deleted.

So the species above without a link are not errors and they are not omissions. They are real, accepted plants that we cannot yet document to the standard we hold ourselves to, and the count in the photographs column is exactly how far short we fall.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. Accepted names, authorities, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. Photograph counts, restricted to CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA. Retrieved 2026-06-27.