Boerhavia albifloraFosberg

WFO wfo-0000567857 Accepted WFO 2026-06 4 photographs CC0

Plate 1 figs. a–d · 1 observation

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 1 time, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Boerhavia albiflora, photographed by Richard Fuller
fig. a Richard Fuller, CC0 1.0 / 2020-12-12 / obs. 107304831
Boerhavia albiflora, photographed by Richard Fuller
fig. b Richard Fuller, CC0 1.0 / obs. 107304838
Boerhavia albiflora, photographed by Richard Fuller
fig. c Richard Fuller, CC0 1.0 / obs. 107304856
Boerhavia albiflora, photographed by Richard Fuller
fig. d Richard Fuller, CC0 1.0 / obs. 107304867

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
Smithsonian, US National Herbarium
Accession
US 3781312
Filed as
Boerhavia albiflora Fosberg
Det. by
Fosberg, F. R.
Collected
C. Long 1964-07-10
Origin
KI
The sheet
View the digitised specimen (CC0 1.0)

A real pressed plant, in a real collection, under the accession number above. Not an illustration of one. The holding institution does not serve this sheet’s image to third parties, so there is no photograph here. The record is real and the link goes to it. Where we hold no openly licensed sheet for a species this section is simply absent, and where a sheet never recorded who determined it, that field stays empty rather than being filled in. Roughly half of all herbarium sheets never recorded a determiner, which is ordinary.

Native range 11 botanical countries

Regions where Boerhavia albiflora is native: Cocos (Keeling) Is., South China Sea, Queensland, Western Australia, Gilbert Is., Line Is., Marshall Is., Phoenix Is., Samoa, Tokelau-Manihiki, Wake I. QueenslandWestern Australia South China SeaLine Is.Marshall Is.SamoaTokelau-ManihikiWake I.
Native distribution of Boerhavia albiflora, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Gilbert Is. GIL PACIFIC
Line Is. LIN
Marshall Is. MRS
Phoenix Is. PHX
Samoa SAM
Tokelau-Manihiki TOK
Wake I. WAK
Cocos (Keeling) Is. CKI ASIA-TROPICAL
South China Sea SCS
Queensland QLD AUSTRALASIA
Western Australia WAU

Not drawn on the map: Cocos (Keeling) Is., Gilbert Is., Phoenix Is.. We hold no public-domain boundary for these regions, so they are listed rather than guessed at.

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 2 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Boerhavia albiflora var. heronensis Fosberg
  • Boerhavia albiflora var. powelliae Fosberg

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.