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Solenanthus reverchonii

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Critically Endangered

Threat status

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Description

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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 Solenanthus

Herbs perennial , pilose or hispid . Leaves alternate, entire. Cymes densely flowered, or many cymes becoming paniculate , bracteate or ebracteate . Calyx 5-parted to base ; lobes linear , lanceolate to oblong , scarcely enlarged. Corolla tubular , rarely campanulate , included or slightly surpassing calyx; appendages oblong, inserted at below middle of corolla tube ; limb blue or purplish red; lobes 5, vertical or somewhat spreading . Stamens inserted above corolla appendages, exserted; anthers oblong to broadly elliptic , apex obtuse . Style usually exserted; stigma minute. Gynobase fastigiate . Nutlets dorsiventrally compressed , ovate to suborbicular , 5-10 mm, abaxially discoid , flat or slightly concave , with dense glochids on abaxial margin and adaxially; attachment scar above middle adaxially, occupying ca. 1/2 of surface, firmly coherent to gynobase.

About ten species: C and W Asia, SE Europe; two species in China.[2]

Habitat

Biome: Terrestrial [3].

Ecology: This perennial herb grows in mountain thickets,ususally in gaps between pines and on calcareous soils.[3].

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Taxonomy

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Similar Species

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Members of the genus Solenanthus

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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. "Solenanthus". in Flora of China Vol. 16 Page 425. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
  3. Gutiérrez, L., Blanca, G., Luque Moreno, P. & Benavente, A. 2006. Solenanthus reverchonii. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 04 February 2012. [back]
Last Revised: 7/25/2012