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Boragineae

(Tribe)

Overview

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A Tribe in the Kingdom Plantae.

Taxonomy

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The Tribe Boragineae is a member of the Subfamily Boraginoideae. Here is the complete "parentage" of Boragineae:

The Tribe Boragineae is further organized into finer groupings including:

Genera

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Alkanna

Alkanna is a genus of herbaceous plants including about 60 species of the family Boraginaceae. The original alkanna plant is a native of the Levant but is now found, wild and cultivated, throughout much of Europe and around the Mediterranean. [more]

Anchusa

The genus Anchusa L. belongs to the tribe Boragineae of the borage family (Boraginaceae). It includes about 40 species. [more]

Borago

Borago (), common name borage, is a genus of two species of herbs with large, hairy leaves that taste mildly of cucumber, and star-shaped purple-blue flowers which are prized for their flavour. The leaves are often added to teas and salads, and the flowers have been added to wine (Borage has had a reputation to give one courage since Roman times). The flowers are highly attractive to bees. [more]

Brunnera

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Bulbinella

Bulbinella is a genus of which are most commonly taxonomically allocated to the family Asphodelaceae. [more]

Dionaea

The Venus Flytrap (also Venus's Flytrap or Venus' Flytrap), Dionaea muscipula, is a carnivorous plant that catches and digests animal prey?mostly insects and arachnids. Its trapping structure is formed by the terminal portion of each of the plant's leaves and is triggered by tiny hairs on their inner surfaces. When an insect or spider crawling along the leaves contacts a hair, the trap closes if a different hair is contacted within twenty seconds of the first strike. The requirement of redundant triggering in this mechanism serves as a safeguard against a waste of energy in trapping objects with no nutritional value. [more]

Elizaldia

Fittonia

A garden plant of family Acanthaceae notable for its dark green foliage; commonly called "Nerve Plant" or "Mosaic Plant". [more]

Halimiocistus

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Nonea

Nonea is a genus of the borage family Boraginaceae. Sometimes known as monkswort, these are perennial or annual herbs. [more]

Pentaglottis

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Petrocosmea

Herbs, perennial, terrestrial or epipetric, rhizomatous, stemless. Leaves few to many, basal; leaf blade puberulent to pilose, rarely sericeous or velutinous, base cuneate to cordate, rarely peltate. Inflorescences usually lax, rarely subumbel-like, axillary, 1-4(-7) -flowered cymes; bracts usually 2, opposite or alternate. Calyx actinomorphic, rarely zygomorphic, 5-sect from base, rarely 3-lobed to 3-sect from base; segments equal, rarely unequal. Corolla blue to purple or white, zygomorphic, inside glabrous, sometimes puberulent; tube broadly tubular, not swollen, shorter than limb, 2-5 mm in diam.; limb 2-lipped; adaxial lip 2-lobed, equalling or much shorter than abaxial lip; abaxial lip 3-lobed, lobes equal or subequal, apex rounded. Stamens 2, adnate to abaxial side of corolla tube near base, included; anthers basifixed, coherent at apex, thecae parallel, confluent at apex or not, dehiscing longitudinally; connective not projecting; staminodes (absent or 1-) 3, adnate to adaxial side of corolla tube. Disc absent. Ovary conical to broadly ovoid, 1-loculed; placentas 2, parietal, projecting inward, 2-cleft. Stigma 1, terminal, capitate, often nearly globose, undivided. Capsule straight in relation to pedicel, narrowly ellipsoid to oblong to ovoid, nearly as long as calyx, dehiscing loculicidally to base; valves 2, straight, not twisted. Seeds unappendaged.[1] [more]

Pulmonaria

The lungworts are the genus Pulmonaria of flowering plants in the family Boraginaceae, native to Europe and western Asia, with one species (P. mollissima) east to central Asia. According to various estimates there may be between 10 and 18 Pulmonaria species found in the wild, but the taxonomy of this genus is very confusing. [more]

Saruma

Saruma is a genus of plant in family Aristolochiaceae. It contains the following species (but this list may be incomplete): [more]

Symphytum

Symphytum is a genus in the Boraginaceae family. Its species are known by the common name comfrey. Some species and hybrids, particularly S. officinale and S. ? uplandicum, are used in gardening and herbal medicine. [more]

Trachystemon

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Tricyrtis

Tricyrtis is a genus of the botanical family Liliaceae, known in English as Toad lilies. Its native range is from the Himalayas to eastern Asia, including China, Japan, Philippines and Formosa. [more]

At least 171 species and subspecies belong to the Genus Tricyrtis.

More info about the Genus Tricyrtis may be found here.

Footnotes

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  1. "Petrocosmea". in Flora of China Vol. 18 Page 302. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org.

Sources

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Last Revised: August 24, 2012
2012/08/24 20:15:20