Fosberg, F.R. (1978), Studies in the genus Boerhavia L. Smithsonian Contributions to Botany 39: 11 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Enderbury Island ... nearby U.S. Airforce Station enclosure, Fosberg & Stoddart 54748 (US, holotype, BISH, A, K, BM, L, G, NY, UC, TI, BO, BRI, P, B, F, S, isotypes)."

Fosberg, F.R. (15 March 1988), New & noteworthy plants from Great Barrier Reef sand cays, Australia. Brittonia 40(1): 55 [secondary reference]

misapplication: Boerhavia tetrandra G.Forst. legitimate by Forster, J.G.A. (1786), Florulae Insularum Australium Prodromus: 2

Du Puy, D.J. & Telford, I.R.H. (1993), Nyctaginaceae. Flora of Australia 50: 105, Fig. 35G-I [secondary reference]

Williams, D.G. (1994), Vegetation and flora of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands. Atoll Research Bulletin 404: 23 [secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2005), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Boerhavia albiflora Fosberg var. albiflora legitimate taxonomic synonym: Boerhavia albiflora var. heronensis Fosberg legitimate misapplication: Boerhavia diffusa L. legitimate by Mueller, F.J.H. von (June 1875), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 9(75): 77 misapplication: Boerhavia diffusa L. legitimate by Hemsley, W.B. (1896), The Flora of Lord Howe Island. Annals of Botany 10(2): 248 misapplication: Boerhavia repens L. legitimate by Oliver, W.R.B. (1917), The vegetation and flora of Lord Howe Island. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 49: 136 misapplication: Boerhavia diffusa L. legitimate by Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 170 misapplication: Boerhavia tetrandra G.Forst. legitimate by Hewson, H.J. & Meikle, R.D. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1984), Nyctaginaceae. Flora of Australia 4: 8-9, Fig. 3A-D, Map 7

• APC Comment: Boerhavia albiflora var. albiflora and B. albiflora var. heronensis are recognised as distinct taxa in Qld.
• APC Dist.: CoI, AR, NT, Qld, CSI, LHI

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