- Family: Boraginaceae Juss.
Echium Tourn. ex L.
This genus is accepted, and its native range is Macaronesia, Europe to Central Asia, N. Africa.
Descriptions
According to Flora of Tropical East Africa
[FTEA]Boraginaceae, B. Verdcourt. Flora of Tropical East Africa. 1991
- Habit
- Annual, biennial or perennial hispid herbs or shrubs with an indumentum of tubercle-based setae and often an underlayer of short stiff adpressed or spreading hairs
- Inflorescences
- Inflorescence thyrsoid, with lateral helicoid cymes often much enlarging in fruit
- Calyx
- Calyx deeply 5-lobed, usually accrescent
- Corolla
- Corolla blue, purple, yellow or white; tube broadly to narrowly funnel-shaped, straight, ± hairy outside, inside usually with a ring of 5–10 distinct scales or lobes or an undulate entire somewhat fleshy collar-like membrane at the base; throat ± oblique, open; limb usually oblique with unequal lobes
- Stamens
- Stamens 5, often unequal, included or exserted
- Pistil
- Style exserted; stigma bifid or sometimes capitate
- Fruits
- Nutlets 4, ± triangular at the base, usually rugose.
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Distribution
Native to:
Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Altay, Austria, Azores, Baleares, Baltic States, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canary Is., Cape Verde, Central European Rus, Chad, Corse, Cyprus, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, East Aegean Is., East European Russia, Egypt, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Hungary, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Irkutsk, Italy, Kazakhstan, Kirgizstan, Krasnoyarsk, Kriti, Krym, Kuwait, Lebanon-Syria, Libya, Madeira, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Netherlands, Northwest European R, Norway, Palestine, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Sardegna, Saudi Arabia, Selvagens, Sicilia, Sinai, South European Russi, Spain, Sudan, Sweden, Switzerland, Tadzhikistan, Transcaucasus, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkey-in-Europe, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, West Siberia, Western Sahara, Xinjiang, Yemen, Yugoslavia
Introduced into:
Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Argentina South, Brazil South, Buryatiya, California, Cape Provinces, Chile Central, Chile South, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Free State, Illinois, Kentucky, Kenya, Khabarovsk, KwaZulu-Natal, Lesotho, New Mexico, New Zealand North, New Zealand South, Norfolk Is., Northern Provinces, Primorye, Sakhalin, St.Helena, Tanzania, Tennessee, Uruguay, Vermont
Accepted Species
- Echium acanthocarpum Svent.
- Echium aculeatum Poir.
- Echium albicans Lag. & Rodr.
- Echium amoenum Fisch. & C.A.Mey.
- Echium anchusoides Bacch., Brullo & Selvi
- Echium angustifolium Mill.
- Echium arenarium Guss.
- Echium asperrimum Lam.
- Echium auberianum Webb & Berthel.
- Echium bethencourtii A.Santos
- Echium boissieri Steud.
- Echium bonnetii Coincy
- Echium brevirame Sprague & Hutch.
- Echium callithyrsum Webb ex Bolle
- Echium candicans L.f.
- Echium canum Emb. & Maire
- Echium clandestinum Pomel
- Echium creticum L.
- Echium decaisnei Webb & Berthel.
- Echium flavum Desf.
- Echium gaditanum Boiss.
- Echium giganteum L.f.
- Echium glomeratum Poir.
- Echium handiense Svent.
- Echium hierrense Webb ex Bolle
- Echium horridum Batt.
- Echium humile Desf.
- Echium hypertropicum Webb
- Echium italicum L.
- Echium judaeum Lacaita
- Echium khuzistanicum Mozaff.
- Echium × lemsii G.Kunkel
- Echium leucophaeum (Webb ex Christ) Webb ex Sprague & Hutch.
- Echium × lidii G.Kunkel
- Echium longifolium Delile
- Echium lusitanicum L.
- Echium modestum Ball
- Echium nervosum W.T.Aiton
- Echium onosmifolium Webb & Berthel.
- Echium orientale L.
- Echium pabotii Mouterde
- Echium parviflorum Moench
- Echium petiolatum Barratte & Coincy
- Echium pininana Webb & Berthel.
- Echium pitardii A.Chev.
- Echium plantagineum L.
- Echium portosanctense J.A.Carvalho, Pontes, Bat.-Marques & R.Jardim
- Echium rauwolfii Delile
- Echium rosulatum Lange
- Echium rubrum Forssk.
- Echium sabulicola Pomel
- Echium salmanticum Lag.
- Echium simplex DC.
- Echium spurium Lojac.
- Echium stenosiphon Webb
- Echium strictum L.f.
- Echium suffruticosum Barratte
- Echium sventenii Bramwell
- Echium × taibiquense P.Wolff & Rosinski
- Echium tenue Roth
- Echium thyrsiflorum Masson ex Link
- Echium triste Svent.
- Echium trygorrhizum Pomel
- Echium tuberculatum Hoffmanns. & Link
- Echium velutinum Coincy
- Echium virescens DC.
- Echium vulcanorum A.Chev.
- Echium vulgare L.
- Echium webbii Coincy
- Echium wildpretii H.Pearson ex Hook.f.
Synonyms
Other Data
Echium Tourn. ex L. appears in other Kew resources:
Herbarium Catalogue (2 records)
Date | Reference | Identified As | Barcode | Type Status |
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Rico, L. [1911], Morocco | K000564903 | |||
Rico, L. [1946], Morocco | K000564872 |
Bibliography
First published in Sp. Pl.: 139 (1753)
Accepted by
- Govaerts, R. (2001). World Checklist of Seed Plants Database in ACCESS E-F: 1-50919.
Literature
Flora of Tropical East Africa
- L., Gen. Pl., ed. 5: 175 (1754)
- Sp. Pl.: 139 (1753)
Sources
Flora of Tropical East Africa
Flora of Tropical East Africa
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