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|accepted_name=Commicarpus
|accepted_authority=Standley
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb.
|place=12: 373. 1909
|year=1909
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|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Nyctaginaceae;Commicarpus
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Nyctaginaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Commicarpus]]</div></div>
|etymology=Greek kommi, gum, and carpos, fruit, in reference to gummy-glandular fruit
|volume=Volume 4
|mention_page=page 14, 15, 17
|treatment_page=page 32
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs </b>or shrubs, perennial, suffrutescent, glabrous or glabrate [pubescent], from stout, ± woody taproots. <b>Stems</b> decumbent to erect, often reclining on or clambering in other vegetation, unarmed, without glutinous bands on internodes. <b>Leaves</b> petiolate, thin, subequal in each pair, base ± symmetric. <b>Inflorescences</b> terminal and axillary, pedunculate, umbellate [capitate, verticellate]; bracts deciduous, 1 at base of each pedicel, distinct, narrowly lanceolate [ovate], thinly herbaceous. <b>Flowers</b> bisexual, chasmogamous; perianth radially symmetric, short funnelform or campanulate, constricted beyond ovary, tube flared to 5-lobed limb; stamens 2(–3)[–6], exserted; styles exserted beyond anthers; stigmas peltate. <b>Fruits</b> clavate, sometimes slightly curved, finely 10-striate or -ribbed, stiffly coriaceous, glabrous or minutely puberulent, with large stalked or subsessile, very sticky glands, especially near apex.</span><!--

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|distribution=sw United States;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America;Eurasia;Australia.
|discussion=<p>Species 30–35 (1 in the flora).</p><!--
--><p><i>Commicarpus</i> is a pantropical genus of arid areas and is most diverse in Africa and the Middle East. A. Heimerl (1889) regarded it as <i>Boerhavia</i> sect. Adenophorae Heimerl. F. R. Fosberg (1978) argued for its continued placement within <i>Boerhavia</i>, particularly for nonspecialists, but most authors now recognize <i>Commicarpus</i> as distinct. As R. D. Meikle (1978) discussed, the funnelform perianth, the long-exserted stamens and style, the obscurely 10-ribbed, fusiform or clavate fruits with the large viscid glands, and the semiwoody nature of the plants all distinguish <i>Commicarpus</i> from <i>Boerhavia</i>.</p>
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|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=harriman1999a
|text=Harriman, N. A. 1999. Synopsis of New World Commicarpus (Nyctaginaceae). Sida 18: 678–684.
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name=Commicarpus
|author=Richard W. Spellenberg
|authority=Standley
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
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|basionyms=
|family=Nyctaginaceae
|distribution=sw United States;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America;Eurasia;Australia.
|reference=harriman1999a
|publication title=Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb.
|publication year=1909
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|genus=Commicarpus
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