1	"Flowers usually solitary, sessile, subtened by minute bracts and held on peduncles 6-20 mm long that may be mistaken for pedicels"	"Boerhavia elegans"
1	"Flowers usually in umbels with 2-8 flowers, subsessile or on pedicels up to 2.5 mm long; peduncles various"	2
2	"Anthocarps glabrous, tips truncate; flowers in well-defined, leafless, terminal panicles"	"Boerhavia erecta"
2	"Anthcarps glandular or puberulous, tops rounded or tapering; flowers in axillary cymes or ill-defined terminal panicles with the lower branches subtened by leafy bracts"	3
3	"Leaves, at least when yung, with long muticellular hairs at margins and along the veins on the lower surfaces, otherwise glabrous"	"Boerhavia diffusa"
3	"Leaves puberulent to glandular pubescent all over, without long multicellular hairs on the margins and the veins on the lower surfaces"	4
4	"Stems flat on the ground or nearly so; perianth-limbs about 1 mm long; inflorescences strictly axiallay, up to 2 cm long"	"Boerhavia repens"
4	"Stems ascending or, if prostrate, then perianth-limbs more than 2 mm long; inflorescences usually more or less terminal and paniculate"	"Boerhavia coccinea"