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Boerhavia diffusa L.: Axia cochinchinensis Lour.; Boerhavia adscendens Willd.; Boerhavia caribea Jacq. Boerhavia coccinea Mill.; Boerhavia coccinea fo. parcehirsuta Heimerl; Boerhavia coccinea var. leiocarpa (Heimerl) Standl.; Boerhavia decumbens Vahl; Boerhavia diandra Aubl.; Boerhavia diffusa var. hirsuta (Jacq.) Kuntze; Boerhavia diffusa var. leiocarpa (Heimerl) C.D. Adams; Boerhavia diffusa var. mutabilis R. Br.; Boerhavia diffusa var. paniculata (Rich.) Kuntze; Boerhavia diffusa var. viscosa (Lag. & Rodr.) Heimerl; Boerhavia erecta L.; Boerhavia hirsuta Willd.; Boerhavia ixodes Standl.; Boerhavialaxa Pers.; Boerhavia paniculata fo. leiocarpa Heimerl; Boerhavia paniculata Lam.; Boerhavia paniculata Rich.; Boerhavia polymorpha Rich.; Boerhavia ramulosa M.E. Jones.; Boerhavia reopens L.; Boerhavia repens var. diffusa (L.) Heimerl ex Kook. f.; Boerhavia sonorae Rose; Boerhavia squamata Raf.; Boerhavia surinamensis Miq.; Boerhavia viscosa fo. oligadena Heimerl; Boerhavia viscosa Lag. & Rodr.; Boerhavia viscosa subsp. apiculata Standl.
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Malla, K.J., Kunwar, R.M., Jan, H.A., Bussmann, R.W., Paniagua-Zambrana, N.Y. (2021). Boerhavia diffusa L. Nyctaginaceae. In: Kunwar, R.M., Sher, H., Bussmann, R.W. (eds) Ethnobotany of the Himalayas. Ethnobotany of Mountain Regions. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-57408-6_40
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