Common name: Tarvine
Boerhavia coccinea Mill. APNI* Synonyms: Boerhavia repens APNI*
Boerhavia mutabilis R.Br. APNI*
Description: Prostrate to decumbent perennial herb, stems hairy with long non-glandular and a few scattered short glandular hairs.
Leaves with lamina elliptic to ovate, c. 5 cm long, to 3.5 cm wide, margins sinuate; petiole to 30 mm long.
Flowers 3–10, subsessile in small umbels; peduncle usually < 3 cm long. Perianth pink. Stamens 3.
Fruit fusiform or narrowly clavate, 3–4 mm long, 5-ribbed with the ribs c. as broad as the furrows, glandular-hairy.
Distribution and occurrence:
NSW subdivisions: ?CC, ?NT, ?CT, NWS, ?CWS, ?SWS, NWP, SWP, NFWP, SFWP
Other Australian states: Qld W.A. S.A. N.T.
Text by S. W. L. Jacobs & G. J. Harden
Taxon concept: R.D. Meikle & H.J. Hewson (1984)
APNI* Provides a link to the Australian Plant Name Index (hosted by the Australian National Botanic Gardens) for comprehensive bibliographic data
***The AVH map option provides a detailed interactive Australia wide distribution map drawn from collections held by all major Australian herbaria participating in the Australian Virtual Herbarium project.
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