Boerhavia plumbaginea (Commicarpus africanus)
Distribution : S and tropical Africa, Spain, Arabia.
Commicarpus plumbagineus (Cav.) standley in Contr. U. S. Nat. herb . 18: 101
(1916). Plate 57, d.
= Valeriana scandans Forssk. (1775) non Loefl; Boerhavia plumbaginea Cav. (1793); B. verticillata Poiret (1804); Commicarpus verticillatus (Poiret) Standley (1916).
Habit : Scandent or trailing perennial, glabrous or scabridulous subshrub. Old stems soft-woody with white, fissured bark.
Lamina of suborbicular to ovate, up to 9 * 7 cm, subcordate to truncate to
broadly cuneate at base, entire to irregularly sinuate, obtuse or acute.
Leave : ——
Inflorescence : verticillata. Other types of inflorescence
Flowers : white, mostly in whorls, distinctly pedicellate.
Perianth : up to 10 mm long, infundibuliform with a prominent tube.
Stamens : 3 .
Ovary : Anthocarp fusiform, broader in the middle, with a double crown of subapical warty glands; the warty glands sessile, inconspicuous lower
Fruit : ——
Saudi Arabia : Southern heights.