Boerhavia sinuata (Commicarpus sinuatus)
Meikle in Kew bull .29 : 83(1974). Plate 57 ,c.
=plumbaginea Cav. Var. viscosa Boiss(1879)
Woody-based, tangled ,bushy, leaf herb up to c. To I m tall . Young branches densely scabridulous with minute clave hairs. Leaves rather fleshy, prominently sinuate to lobed , lamina up to c. 4cm long , truncate to subcordate at base, obtuse, puberulous to almost glabrous . Flowers pinkish to purplish red, as rule in umbels on intricately branched inflorescence, sessile to subsessile .Perianth up to c. 9 mm long with a well-developed tube. Stamens 3 or 4 . Anthocarp clavate, c. 6(-8) mm long, densely glandular scabridulous, warty gland subsessile to sessile , scattered all over
Saudi Arabia: western and southwestern heights
Distribution : Somalia, Ethiopia, Sinai, Saudi Arabia , Yemen
