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Lappula Moench

Stickseed (en), Lappulier (fr)

Genus

Angiosperms > Boraginales > Boraginaceae

Characteristics

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.
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Cor salverform or broadly funnelform, the tube about as long as the cal, the throat closed by the fornices; stamens and style included; fruiting pedicels erect or spreading; nutlets erect and connivent, narrowly attached to the elongate gynobase along the median ventral keel (the lower part rounded and free), bearing one or more rows of glochidiate prickles along the continuous dorsomarginal ridge or cupulate border; rough-hairy annuals with erect stems, each branch ending in an elongate, bracteate false raceme (helicoid cyme) of small, blue or occasionally white fls. Ca. 12, mainly N. Hemisphere.
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Hardiness (USDA) 4-9

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Images

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Distribution

Lappula world distribution map, present in China and United States of America

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:30023102-2
WFO ID wfo-4000020593
COL ID 62XBL
BDTFX ID 86666
INPN ID 193850
Wikipedia (EN) Link
Wikipedia (FR)

Synonyms

Lappula Echinospermum Cynoglossospermum

Lower taxons

Lappula spinocarpos Lappula zapateri Lappula semnanensis Lappula deflexa Lappula drobovii Lappula coronifera Lappula echinophora Lappula nuratavica Lappula nevskii Lappula saphronovae Lappula rigida Lappula rupestris Lappula rupicola Lappula rechingeri Lappula fruticulosa Lappula glabrata Lappula alaica Lappula aktaviensis Lappula brachycentroides Lappula tuvinica Lappula diploloma Lappula korshinskyi Lappula lipschitzii Lappula kulikalonica Lappula parvula Lappula mogoltavica Lappula fremontii Lappula redowskii Lappula tadshikorum Lappula cynoglossoides Lappula eckloniana Lappula occidentalis Lappula balchaschensis Lappula duplicicarpa Lappula heteracantha Lappula intermedia Lappula lipskyi Lappula macra Lappula macrantha Lappula microcarpa Lappula occultata Lappula physacantha Lappula sericata Lappula sessiliflora Lappula tianschanica Lappula karelinii Lappula deserticola Lappula brachycentra Lappula caespitosa Lappula myosotis Lappula shanhsiensis Lappula granulata Lappula himalayensis Lappula pratensis Lappula ramulosa Lappula anocarpa Lappula heteromorpha Lappula monocarpa Lappula transalaica Lappula zaissanica Lappula fremontii Lappula pilosa Lappula krylovii Lappula heterantha Lappula collina Lappula barbata Lappula marginata Lappula patula Lappula subcaespitosa Lappula subcaespitosa Lappula paulsenii Lappula tenuis Lappula heteracantha Lappula badachschanica Lappula stricta Lappula sinaica Lappula ulacholica Lappula laevimarginata Lappula dzharkentica Lappula saissanica Lappula pavlovii Lappula sarawschanica Lappula semialata Lappula popovii Lappula anisacantha Lappula cenchroides Lappula ketmenica Lappula lenensis Lappula leonardii Lappula squarrosa
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