WorldFloraDB - Bothriospermum

Characteristics

Herbs annual or biennial, hispid and appressed pubescent, hairs discoid at base. Stems erect or prostrate. Leaves alternate, ovate to oblanceolate. Cymes bracteate. Flowers pedicellate. Calyx 5-parted; lobes lanceolate, not enlarged or slightly enlarged in fruit. Corolla rotate, blue or white; tube short; throat appendages 5, scalelike; lobes 5, overlapping in bud, apex obtuse. Filaments extremely short; anthers 5, inserted in corolla tube, included; anthers ovate, obtuse. Ovary 4-parted, valves free, each containing 1 anatropous ovule. Style short, not surpassing valves; stigma capitate. Gynobase flat. Nutlets 4, with cupular emergence adaxially, rounded abaxially, tuberculate, with an oblong, elliptic, or orbicular ringlike aperture; margin of aperture thickened, prominent, entire or sometimes finely dentate; attachment scar basal. Seeds usually not curved.

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Annual or biennial plants. Leaves alternate. Flowers small, pentamerous, solitary, extra-axillary, forming a kind of leafy raceme in the distal part of the branches. Calyx cleft to the base. Corolla with scales (fornices) in the throat, with a short tube and spreading limb divided into 5 obtuse lobes. Stamens included in the corolla, with short, obtuse anthers. Pistil: style short, with small, capitate stigma. Nutlets very small, erect, with a tiny areola attached to the flat or nearly flat receptacle, surface usually sculptured, ventral side with a large navel surrounded by a prominent margin.

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Identifiers

LSID	urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:4486-1
WFO ID	wfo-4000005077
COL ID	62H98
BDTFX ID	122477
INPN ID	705224
Wikipedia (EN)	Link
Wikipedia (FR)

Synonyms

Bothriospermum

Lower taxons

Bothriospermum chinense Bothriospermum hispidissimum Bothriospermum secundum Bothriospermum zeylanicum Bothriospermum kusnezowii Bothriospermum kusnetzowii Bothriospermum imaii

WorldFloraDB 2024

Bothriospermum Bunge

Bothriospermum (en), Nihonie (fr)

Genus

Angiosperms > Boraginales > Boraginaceae