Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Boerhavia coccinea
hierba pegajosa, abrojo rojo, arete, scarlet spiderling, red boerhaavia
Plant with decumbent stems and broadly ovate leaves. Branches of inflorescences glabrous. Flowers in headlike clusters, corolla magenta (Wiggins and Porter, 1971)
About the same distribution as B. caribaea (Wiggins and Porter, 1971).
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Magnoliophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida (= Dicotyledoneae)
Order
Caryophyllales
Family
Nyctaginaceae
Genus
Boerhavia
Species
coccinea
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Boerhavia caribaea Jacq., B. diffusa var. hirsuta Heimerl, B. glandulosa Andersson fide Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew & Missouri Botanical Garden (2010). In Andersson (1855) as Boerhavia diffusa, fide Wiggins & Porter (1971)
Origin: Native
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
Distribution: The native range of this species is Tropical & Subtropical America (POWO, 2023).
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- Wiggins, I.L. Porter, D.M. (1971) Flora of the Galapagos Islands Standford University Press, Stanford.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Boerhavia coccinea", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=634. Accessed 31 October 2026.