Boerhavia elegans is a species of flowering plants in the four o'clock flower family, Nyctaginaceae.

It is one of the species that compose the "tortoise turf", the food source of the Aldabra giant tortoise, of the Aldabra Atoll in the Seychelles.

References

  1. ^ Choisy, Jacques Denys (Denis) Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis 13(2): 453. 1849
  2. ^ A.G. Mill. Edinburgh J. Bot. 51(1): 40 1994
  3. ^ Boiss. Fl. Orient. 4: 1046 1879


Allikas: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boerhavia_elegans
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