Common name: Tarvine
Boerhavia repleta Hewson APNI* 
Description: Prostrate or decumbent perennial, stems with short glandular hairs.
Leaves with lamina lanceolate to ovate, to 4 cm long, to 2 cm wide, margins slightly sinuate; petiole to 20 mm long.
Umbels usually 1- or 2-flowered; flowers distinctly pedicellate; peduncle usually c. 5 mm long. Perianth pink. Stamens 2 or 3.
Fruit obconical, 3–5 mm long, 4- or 5-ribbed, each rib broader than the narrow furrows.
Distribution and occurrence:
NSW subdivisions: SWS, NWP, NFWP
Other Australian states: Qld W.A. N.T.
Text by S. W. L. Jacobs & G. J. Harden
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 1 (1990)
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