Gastrocotyle Bunge

Genus

Angiosperms > Boraginales > Boraginaceae

Characteristics

Herbs short strigose, bristly. Leaves alternate, sessile, margin obtusely incised-dentate or undulate. Flowers solitary in leaf axils, short pedicellate or ± sessile. Calyx 5-parted nearly to base; lobes stellate spreading. Corolla 5-parted; tube ca. 2 × as long as lobes; throat with 5 scaly pilose appendages; limb divided; lobes spreading, overlapping in bud. Stamens included, below appendages. Ovary 4-divided. Stigma subcapitate. Nutlets erect, fissured-wrinkled, densely tuberculate; attachment scar adaxial, oblong, margin thickened.
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Distribution

Gastrocotyle world distribution map, present in China

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:924869-1
WFO ID wfo-4000015372
COL ID 4MD4
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Synonyms

Gastrocotyle

Lower taxons

Gastrocotyle hispida Gastrocotyle natolica Gastrocotyle macedonica