- Family:
- Boraginaceae Juss.
Echium Tourn. ex L.

[FTEA]
Boraginaceae, B. Verdcourt. Flora of Tropical East Africa. 1991
- Morphology General Habit
- Annual, biennial or perennial hispid herbs or shrubs with an indumentum of tubercle-based setae and often an underlayer of short stiff adpressed or spreading hairs
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
- Inflorescence thyrsoid, with lateral helicoid cymes often much enlarging in fruit
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx
- Calyx deeply 5-lobed, usually accrescent
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
- Corolla blue, purple, yellow or white; tube broadly to narrowly funnel-shaped, straight, ± hairy outside, inside usually with a ring of 5–10 distinct scales or lobes or an undulate entire somewhat fleshy collar-like membrane at the base; throat ± oblique, open; limb usually oblique with unequal lobes
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Androecium Stamens
- Stamens 5, often unequal, included or exserted
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Gynoecium Pistil
- Style exserted; stigma bifid or sometimes capitate
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
- Nutlets 4, ± triangular at the base, usually rugose.
Native to:
Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Altay, Austria, Azores, Baleares, Baltic States, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canary Is., Cape Verde, Central European Rus, Chad, Corse, Cyprus, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, East Aegean Is., East European Russia, Egypt, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Hungary, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Irkutsk, Italy, Kazakhstan, Kirgizstan, Krasnoyarsk, Kriti, Krym, Kuwait, Lebanon-Syria, Libya, Madeira, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Netherlands, North Caucasus, Northwest European R, Norway, Palestine, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Sardegna, Saudi Arabia, Selvagens, Sicilia, Sinai, South European Russi, Spain, Sudan, Sweden, Switzerland, Tadzhikistan, Transcaucasus, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkey-in-Europe, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, West Siberia, Western Sahara, Xinjiang, Yemen, Yugoslavia
Introduced into:
Alaska, Alberta, Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Argentina South, Arkansas, Brazil South, British Columbia, Buryatiya, California, Cape Provinces, Chile Central, Chile South, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Free State, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Kenya, Khabarovsk, KwaZulu-Natal, Lesotho, Louisiana, Maine, Manitoba, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Brunswick, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New South Wales, New York, New Zealand North, New Zealand South, Newfoundland, Norfolk Is., North Carolina, Northern Provinces, Northern Territory, Nova Scotia, Ohio, Oklahoma, Ontario, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Primorye, Prince Edward I., Queensland, Québec, Rhode I., Sakhalin, Saskatchewan, South Australia, South Carolina, South Dakota, St.Helena, Tanzania, Tasmania, Tennessee, Texas, Uruguay, Utah, Vermont, Victoria, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Western Australia, Wisconsin, Wyoming
- Echium acanthocarpum Svent.
- Echium aculeatum Poir.
- Echium albicans Lag. & Rodr.
- Echium amoenum Fisch. & C.A.Mey.
- Echium anchusoides Bacch., Brullo & Selvi
- Echium angustifolium Mill.
- Echium arenarium Guss.
- Echium asperrimum Lam.
- Echium auberianum Webb & Berthel.
- Echium bethencourtii A.Santos
- Echium boissieri Steud.
- Echium × bond-spraguei Sprague & Hutch.
- Echium bonnetii Coincy
- Echium brevirame Sprague & Hutch.
- Echium callithyrsum Webb ex Bolle
- Echium candicans L.f.
- Echium canum Emb. & Maire
- Echium clandestinum Pomel
- Echium creticum L.
- Echium decaisnei Webb & Berthel.
- Echium flavum Desf.
- Echium gaditanum Boiss.
- Echium giganteum L.f.
- Echium glomeratum Poir.
- Echium handiense Svent.
- Echium hierrense Webb ex Bolle
- Echium horridum Batt.
- Echium humile Desf.
- Echium hypertropicum Webb
- Echium italicum L.
- Echium judaeum Lacaita
- Echium khuzistanicum Mozaff.
- Echium × lemsii G.Kunkel
- Echium leucophaeum (Webb ex Christ) Webb ex Sprague & Hutch.
- Echium × lidii G.Kunkel
- Echium longifolium Delile
- Echium lusitanicum L.
- Echium modestum Ball
- Echium montenielluense Delage
- Echium nervosum W.T.Aiton
- Echium onosmifolium Webb & Berthel.
- Echium orientale L.
- Echium pabotii Mouterde
- Echium parviflorum Moench
- Echium perezii Sprague
- Echium petiolatum Barratte & Coincy
- Echium pininana Webb & Berthel.
- Echium pitardii A.Chev.
- Echium plantagineum L.
- Echium portosanctense J.A.Carvalho, Pontes, Bat.-Marques & R.Jardim
- Echium rauwolfii Delile
- Echium rosulatum Lange
- Echium rubrum Forssk.
- Echium sabulicola Pomel
- Echium salmanticum Lag.
- Echium simplex DC.
- Echium spurium Lojac.
- Echium stenosiphon Webb
- Echium strictum L.f.
- Echium suffruticosum Barratte
- Echium sventenii Bramwell
- Echium × taibiquense P.Wolff & Rosinski
- Echium tenue Roth
- Echium thyrsiflorum Masson ex Link
- Echium triste Svent.
- Echium trygorrhizum Pomel
- Echium tuberculatum Hoffmanns. & Link
- Echium velutinum Coincy
- Echium virescens DC.
- Echium vulcanorum A.Chev.
- Echium vulgare L.
- Echium webbii Coincy
- Echium wildpretii H.Pearson ex Hook.f.
Echium Tourn. ex L. appears in other Kew resources:
Date | Reference | Identified As | Barcode | Type Status | Has image? |
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Rico, L. [1911], Morocco | K000564903 | No | |||
Rico, L. [1946], Morocco | K000564872 | No |
First published in Sp. Pl.: 139 (1753)
Accepted by
- Govaerts, R. (2001). World Checklist of Seed Plants Database in ACCESS E-F: 1-50919.
Literature
Flora of Tropical East Africa
- L., Gen. Pl., ed. 5: 175 (1754)
- Sp. Pl.: 139 (1753)
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Flora of Tropical East Africa
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