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|accepted_name=Boerhavia anisophylla
|accepted_authority=Torrey in W. H. Emory
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=in W. H. Emory, Rep. U.S. Mex. Bound.
|place=2(1): 171. 1859
|year=1859
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Nyctaginaceae;Boerhavia;Boerhavia anisophylla
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Nyctaginaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Boerhavia]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Boerhavia anisophylla]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 4
|mention_page=page 18
|treatment_page=page 21
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> perennial, often somewhat woody at base; taproot long and ropelike, woody. <b>Stems</b> decumbent to ascending, sparingly branched throughout, 2–8 dm, densely glandular-pubescent or pubescent with minute curled hairs, sometimes also with sparse long-spreading hairs basally, usually glabrous sometimes glandular-puberulent distally. <b>Leaves</b> mostly in basal 1/2 of plant; larger leaves with petiole 4–22 mm, blade triangular-ovate to ovate or suborbiculate, 20–40 × 15–32 mm (distal leaves smaller, proportionately narrower), adaxial surface glabrate to densely spreading-puberulent, rarely lightly punctate, abaxial surface paler than adaxial, glabrate to moderately glandular-puberulent, usually punctate with small patches of large gray cells, base round, truncate, or cordate, usually oblique, margins entire or sinuate, apex obtuse to round. <b>Inflorescences</b> axillary or terminal, forked ca. 3–5 times unequally, open, without sticky internodal bands; branches strongly ascending, terminating in loose, cymose, 1–3-flowered clusters. <b>Flowers</b>: pedicel 0.5–5 mm; bracts at base of perianth persistent, 2–3, narrowly to broadly lanceolate, 1–2 mm, apex often acuminate; perianth purplish pink to pink (white), widely funnelform beyond constriction, 5–10 mm; stamens (4–)5–8, well exserted. <b>Fruits</b> borne singly (or 2–3 in open clusters), gray-brown, oblong-obovoid, 2.7–3.6 × 1.3–1.6 mm (l/w: [1.7–]2.1–2.6), apex rounded to broad-conic, glabrous; ribs 5, round or bluntly angled, not overhanging sulci, smooth; sulci 1–2 times as wide as base of ribs, not rugose (rarely deeply transversely rugose), minutely papillate.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering mid summer–early fall.
|habitat=Limestone banks and calcareous gravel in arid shrublands
|elevation=1000-1300[-2300] m
|distribution=Tex.;Mexico (Chihuahua;Coahuila;Durango;Nuevo León;Zacatecas).
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name=Boerhavia anisophylla
|author=
|authority=Torrey in W. H. Emory
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Nyctaginaceae
|phenology=Flowering mid summer–early fall.
|habitat=Limestone banks and calcareous gravel in arid shrublands
|elevation=1000-1300[-2300] m
|distribution=Tex.;Mexico (Chihuahua;Coahuila;Durango;Nuevo León;Zacatecas).
|reference=None
|publication title=in W. H. Emory, Rep. U.S. Mex. Bound.
|publication year=1859
|special status=
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|genus=Boerhavia
|species=Boerhavia anisophylla
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