Lappula squarrosa

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• Description
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• Notes

Overview

Interesting Facts

Common Names

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Description

Family Boraginaceae

Herbs perennial , biennial, or annual , less often lianas, shrubs , or trees , usually bristly or scabrous-pubescent. Leaves simple , exstipulate , alternate, rarely opposite, entire or serrate at margin . Inflorescences often double scorpioid cymes, rarely solitary; bracts present or absent. Flowers bisexual , actinomorphic , rarely zygomorphic. Calyx usually 5-parted or lobed , mostly persistent . Corolla tubular , campanulate , rotate, funnelform , or salverform ; tube appendages 5, rarely more, mostly trapeziform, rarely absent, sometimes a ring of hairs present; limb usually 5-parted; lobes overlapping, rarely twisted in bud. Stamens 5, inserted on corolla tube or rarely at throat , included or rarely exserted; anthers introrse , 2-loculed, usually dorsifixed at base , less often medifixed , dehiscence longitudinal . Nectaries at base of corolla tube or on disc below ovary. Ovary superior, 2-carpellate; locules 2 and each with 2 ovules, or 4 and each with 1 ovule; ovules nearly atropous , semianatropous, or anatropous . Style terminal or gynobasic , branched or not. Gynobase flat, fastigiate , or subulate . Fruit 1-4-seeded drupes or nutlets (mericarps) ; nutlets mostly dry, often ornamented with wings , prickles and/or glochids (stiff bristles with barbed or anchorlike tips ) . Seeds vertical or oblique , coat membranous; embryo straight, less often curved ; cotyledons flat, fleshy .

About 156 genera and 2500 species: temperate and tropical regions , centered in the Mediterranean region; 47 genera and 294 species in China, of which four genera and 156 species are endemic.[1]

Genus Lappula

Plants annual or biennial, rarely perennial , pilose , strigose , rarely sericeous throughout, hairs tuberclelike or discoid at base . Leaves alternate. Inflorescence a drepanium , elongated after anthesis , bracteate . Calyx 5-parted nearly to base; lobes frequently enlarged in fruit. Corolla light blue, rarely white, campanulate or low salverform ; tube short; throat appendages 5, trapeziform; limb 5-parted. Stamens included . Ovary globose , 4-parted. Style not exserted; stigma capitate. Gynobase subulate veined, ca. as long as or surpassing nutlets , rarely shorter. Nutlets 4, adherent to gynobase by entire adaxial rib or only by rib base, erect , homomorphic or heteromorphic; margin of abaxial surface usually with 1(-3) rows of glochids; bases of glochids separated or contiguous or confluent into a wing , rarely reduced to tubercles .

About 61 species: temperate regions of Africa, Asia, Europe, and North America; 36 species in China.[2]

Physical Description

Habitat

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 4,091 meters (0 to 13,422 feet).[3]

Taxonomy

Synonyms

Lappula echinata Gilib. • Lappula erecta A. Nels. • Lappula fremontii (Torr.) Greene • Lappula lappula (L.) Karst. • Lappula myosotis Moench • Lappula squarrosa var. erecta (A. Nels.) Dorn • Myosotis squarrosa Retz.

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: 15-Mar-2000

Similar Species

Members of the genus Lappula

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 7 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:

L. cenchrusoides (Great Plains Sheepburr) · L. diploloma (Colorado Stickseed) · L. marginata (Margined Stickseed) · L. occidentalis (Flat-Spine Sheepburr) · L. occidentalis var. cupulata (Flatspine Stickseed) · L. occidentalis var. occidentalis (Flat-Spine Sheepburr) · L. squarrosa (Bristly Sheepburr)

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Further Reading

• A preliminary classification of the plant communities of northeastern Montana / Robert L. DeVelice [et al.]. Helena, MT: Montana Natural Heritage Program, c1991. url , , , , , , , .
• Great Basin naturalist memoirs. 1987 [Provo, Utah]Brigham Young University, 1976-1992. url p. 78.
• The Canadian field-naturalist. Ottawa, Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club. url p. 132, p. 289, p. 576.
• The Great Basin naturalist. 52 1992 Provo, Utah: M.L. Bean Life Science Museum, Brigham Young University, 1939-1999. url p. 120.
• The plants of Prince Edward Island / Ottawa: Research Branch, Agriculture Canada, 1985. url p. 16.
• Wang Wen-tsai, Liu Yu-lan, Zhu Ge-ling, Lian Yong-shan, Wang Jing-quan & Wang Qing-rui in Kung Xian-wu & Wang Wen-tsai, eds. 1989. Boraginaceae. Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 64(2): 1-253.

Notes

Contributors

• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 11, 2012.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal November 28, 2007:

• Conservatoire botanique national du Bassin parisien, Conservatoire botanique national du Bassin parisien
• European Environment Agency, EUNIS
• GBIF-Spain, Institut Botanic de Barcelona, BC
• GBIF-Spain, Real Jardin Botanico
• , Vascular Plant Herbarium
• GBIF-Spain, Universidad de Oviedo. Departamento de Biología de Organismos y Sistemas: FCO
• Jyväskylä University Museum - The Section of Natural Sciences, Vascular plant collection of Jyvaskyla University Museum
• Missouri Botanical Garden, Missouri Botanical Garden
• Oregon State University, Vascular Plant Collection
• School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Arizona State University Vascular Plant Herbarium
• School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, The Deaver Herbarium, Northern Arizona University
• The Swedish Museum of Natural History
• , Botany
• The Swedish Museum of Natural History
• , Herbarium of Oskarshamn
• The Swedish Museum of Natural History
• , Lund Botanical Museum
• The Swedish Museum of Natural History
• , Plants
• Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum, Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum
• UK National Biodiversity Network, Botanical Society of the British Isles - Vascular Plants Database
• USDA PLANTS, USDA PLANTS Database
• University of Alaska Museum of the North, University of Alaska Museum of the North Herbarium
• University of Vienna, Institute for Botany - Herbarium WU, Herbarium WU
• Utah State University, USU-UTC Specimen Database
• Utah Valley State College
• , Utah Valley State College Herbarium
• inatura - Erlebnis Naturschau Dornbirn, inatura - Erlebnis Naturschau Dornbirn

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2667742
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-503330
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 4490920
• Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:117629-1
• GRIN Nomen Number: 105313
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 503330
• Natural Heritage Network Species Identifier: PDBOR0K050
• U.S.D.A. Plant Symbol: LASQE
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 44220

Footnotes

1. Gelin Zhu, Harald Riedl & Rudolf V. Kamelin "Boraginaceae". in Flora of China Vol. 16 Page 329. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
2. "Lappula". in Flora of China Vol. 16 Page 402. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
3. Mean = 413.540 meters (1,356.759 feet), Standard Deviation = 570.290 based on 1,179 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]

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