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Common Names
Common Names in English:
Indian Knob Mountain Balm, Indian Knob Mountain-Balm, Indian Knob Mountainbalm
Description
Family Hydrophyllaceae
Herbs or shrubs
, glabrous
or pubescent
, occasionally glandular
, bristly
, or thorny. Leaves alternate or opposite, occasionally in a basal rosette, simple
or variously lobed
or divided
, without stipules. Inflorescences solitary flowers, cymose
, or paniculate
. Flowers bisexual
, actinomorphic
, usually 5-merous, often showy. Calyx ± gamosepalous
, sinuses sometimes appendaged. Corolla gamopetalous, campanulate
, tubular
, or rotate; lobes
overlapping in bud. Stamens usually 5; filaments
attached to corolla, often alternating with scalelike appendages
; anthers
2-locular, longitudinally dehiscent
. Ovary superior, 1- or 2- (several) locular
, with 2 parietal
placentae; ovules few or numerous
. Styles
1 or 2, usually lobed or divided; stigma capitate. Fruit a loculicidal capsule, rarely also septicidal
or opening irregularly. Seeds usually with a sculptured
or pitted
coat
; endosperm enclosing a small embryo.
Eighteen to 22 genera and ca.
300 species: mostly in North and South America, with a few in Africa, Asia, and Australia; one genus with one species in China.Ruizheng Fang & Constance Lincoln "Hydrophyllaceae". in Flora of China Vol. 16 Page 328. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org.
Physical Description
Habit: Shrub
Biology
Reproduction
Duration: Perennial
Taxonomy
- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- Kingdom:
Plantae
()
- Haeckel, 1866
- Plants
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
()
- Cavalier-Smith, 1981
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
()
- Sinnott, 1935 Ex Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Vascular Plants
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
()
- Infraphylum:
Radiatopses
()
- Kenrick & Crane, 1997
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
()
- Brongniart, 1843
- Dicotyledons
- Subclass:
Lamiidae
()
- Takhtajan Ex Reveal, 1992
- Superorder:
Solananae
()
- R. Dahlgren Ex Reveal, 1992
- Order:
Boraginales
()
- Dumortier, 1829
- Family:
Hydrophyllaceae
()
- R. Brown Ex Ker-Gawler, 1817
- Waterleaf Family
- Subfamily:
Hydrophylloideae
()
- Genus:
Eriodictyon
()
- Specific epithet:
altissimum
- P.V.Wells
- Botanical name: - Eriodictyon altissimum P.V.Wells
- Specific epithet:
altissimum
- P.V.Wells
- Genus:
Eriodictyon
(
- Subfamily:
Hydrophylloideae
(
- Family:
Hydrophyllaceae
(
- Order:
Boraginales
(
- Superorder:
Solananae
(
- Subclass:
Lamiidae
(
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
(
- Infraphylum:
Radiatopses
(
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
(
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
(
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
(
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
Unambiguous Synonyms
- Eriodictyon altissimum P. V. Wells
Notes
Name
Status: Accepted Name
. Latest taxonomic
scrutiny: 15-Mar-2000
Place of publication
: Madroño 16:184. 1962
Name verified on 10-Feb-1995 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 14-Oct-1999
Similar Species
Members of the genus Eriodictyon
There are approximately 34 species in this genus:
E. altissimum (Indian Knob Mountain Balm) · E. angustifolium (Narrow-Leafed Yerba Santa) · E. angustifolium var. pubens · E. californicum (California Yerba Santa) · E. californicum subsp. australe · E. californicum subsp. glutinosum · E. californicum subvar. coarctatum · E. californicum var. lanatum · E. californicum var. pubens · E. californicus · E. capitatum (Lompoc Yerba Santa) · E. crassifolium (Thick-Leaf Yerba Santa) · E. crassifolium Benth. var. crassifolium Benth. (Thickleaf Yerba Santa) · E. crassifolium Benth. var. nigrescens Brand (Thickleaf Yerba Santa) · E. crassifolium subsp. benthamianum · E. crassifolium subsp. grayanum · E. crassifolium var. crassifolium · E. crassifolium var. nigrescens · E. crassifolium var. traskiae · E. crassifolium var. typica · E. glutinosum · E. lobbii · E. niveum · E. parryi · E. sessifolium · E. sessilifolium · E. tomentosum (Woolly Yerba Santa) · E. tormentosum · E. traskiae (Pacific Yerba Santa) · E. traskiae smithii · E. trichocalyx (Hairy Yerba Santa) · E. trichocalyx lanatum var. lanatum · E. trichocalyx var. lanatum · E. trichocalyx var. trichocalyx
Bibliography
- Hannan, G. L. 1988. Amer. J. Bot. 75:579–588.
- Hickman, J. C., ed. 1993. The Jepson manual: Higher plants of California. (F CalifJep)
- Kartesz, J. T. 1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland. (L US Can ed2)
- United States Fish and Wildlife Service. U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service. Species Information: threatened and endangered animals and plants - on-line resource. (US Fish & Wildl List)
- Fang Rhui-cheng & Huang Shu-hua in Wu Cheng-yih, ed. 1979. Hydrophyllaceae. Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 64(1): 160-161.
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Notes
Contributors
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed February 02, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from provider.
- MBLWHOI Library: Universal Biological Index and Organizer. uBio.org accessed July 17, 2008.
- USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program. Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database]. National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. URL (April 27, 2008)
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal February 02, 2008:
- USDA PLANTS, USDA PLANTS Database
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2654255
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-31365
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13745630
- Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:432087-1
- GRIN Nomen Number: 401016
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 31365
- International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 94528-2
- Natural Heritage Network Species Identifier: PDHYD04010
- U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Species Identifier: Q1W5
- U.S.D.A. Plant Symbol: ERAL12
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 37931
