View source for Boerhavia linearifolia

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|accepted_name=Boerhavia linearifolia
|accepted_authority=A. Gray
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Amer. J. Sci. Arts, ser.
|place=2, 15: 322. 1853
|year=1853
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Boerhavia lindheimeri
|authority=Standley
}}{{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Boerhavia tenuifolia
|authority=A. Gray ex J. M. Coulter
}}
|hierarchy=Nyctaginaceae;Boerhavia;Boerhavia linearifolia
|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 linearifolia]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 4
|mention_page=page 18
|treatment_page=page 22
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> perennial, sometimes slightly woody at base; taproot long, ropelike, ± woody. <b>Stems</b> usually erect or ascending, occasionally decumbent, sparingly branched throughout, 2–5(–9) dm, hirsute, puberulent, or glandular basally, hair types often mixed, glandular-puberulent, glabrous, or occasionally puberulent and sparsely hispid distally. <b>Leaves</b> mostly in basal 2/3 of plant; larger leaves with petiole 1–5 mm, blade lanceolate to linear, rarely ovate, 15–35 × 1–15 mm (distal leaves usually longer, narrower), adaxial surface glabrous or sparsely hispid, occasionally glandular-pubescent, sometimes punctate, abaxial surface usually paler than adaxial, glabrous or sparsely hispid, occasionally glandular-pubescent, usually punctate with small patches of large gray to dark brown cells, base obtuse, truncate, or rounded, margins entire and revolute, apex usually acute, sometimes obtuse or rounded. <b>Inflorescences</b> terminal and axillary, forked ca. 2–4 times unequally, open, without sticky internodal bands; branches strongly ascending, terminating in loose, 1–few-flowered, cymose clusters. <b>Flowers</b>: pedicel 1–2(–5) mm; bracts at base of perianth persistent, 3, lanceolate to ovate-acuminate, 1–2 mm; perianth purplish pink, widely funnelform beyond constriction, 4–7 mm; stamens 5(–6), well exserted. <b>Fruits</b> borne singly (or 2–3 in open clusters), dark gray-brown, oblong-clavate, 2.5–3.5 × 1.2–1.5 mm (l/w: (1.7–)2.1–3.5), apex round, usually glabrous; ribs (4–)5, broadly rounded, smooth, edges sharp and slightly overhanging sulcus; sulci about as wide as base of ribs, smooth, not papillate (very rarely minutely and sparsely puberulent). <b>2n</b> = ca. 52.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering mid spring–late summer.
|habitat=Open, calcareous soils or rock in arid grasslands or shrublands
|elevation=400-1700 m
|distribution=N.Mex.;Tex.;Mexico (Chihuahua;Coahuila).
|discussion=<p>Boerhavia linearifolia has been reported from Alabama, but no documenting specimen has been seen.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Boerhavia linearifolia
|author=
|authority=A. Gray
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Boerhavia lindheimeri;Boerhavia tenuifolia
|basionyms=
|family=Nyctaginaceae
|phenology=Flowering mid spring–late summer.
|habitat=Open, calcareous soils or rock in arid grasslands or shrublands
|elevation=400-1700 m
|distribution=N.Mex.;Tex.;Mexico (Chihuahua;Coahuila).
|reference=None
|publication title=Amer. J. Sci. Arts, ser.
|publication year=1853
|special status=
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|genus=Boerhavia
|species=Boerhavia linearifolia
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