Commicarpus helenae var. helenae

Synonyms: Boerhavia helenae Schult., Boerhavia verticillata auct.

Flowers small, pink or pinkish-red, 3-5 per node, superposed. Pedicels typically very short and stout. Fruits with a ring of large wart-like glands around the apex and rings of sessile glands below.

Anthocarps of Commicarpus are cylindrical or fusiform with 10 obscure ribs and large, dark, mucilaginous glands scattered over the surface. Anthocarps of Boerhavia are clavate or elliptic-clavate with 3–5 ribs or wings which can either be glandular or glabrous (Struwig et al. 2010).