Boerhavia elegans

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
Subspecies
	Boerhavia elegans subsp. stenophylla (Boiss.) A.G. Mill., 1994; Boerhavia elegans var. stenophylla Boiss., 1879;
Synonyms
	Boerhavia rubicunda Steud. ex Heimerl;

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 edit

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

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