Boraginaceae
Ogastemma

Ogastemma pusillum (Coss. & Durieu ex Bonnet & Barratte) Brummitt

First published in Kew Bull. 36: 680 (1982)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is Canary Islands, Sahara to S. Iran. It is an annual and grows primarily in the temperate biome.

Distribution

Native to:

Algeria, Canary Is., Egypt, Gulf States, Iran, Kuwait, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Sinai, Tunisia, Western Sahara

Synonyms

Homotypic Synonyms

Classification

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Publications

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

  • Boulos, L. (2000). Flora of Egypt 2: 1-352. Al Hadara Publishing, Cairo.
  • Dobignard, A. & Chatelain, C. (2011). Index synonymique de la flore d'Afrique du nord 3: 1-449. Éditions des conservatoire et jardin botaniques, Genève.
  • Ghazanfar, S.A. (1992). An Annotated Catalogue of the Vascular Plants of Oman and their Vernacular names. Scripta Botanica Belgica 2: 1-153.
  • Zaeifi, M. & Ramazanzade, S. (2009). Ogastemma Brummitt (Boraginaceae), a new genus for the flora of Iran. Iranian Journal of Botany 15: 172-174.

Kew Backbone Distributions

  • Guinea, E. (1948). Catálogo razonado de las plantas del Sáhara Español. Anales del Jardin Botanico de Madrid 8: 357-429.
  • Zaeifi, M. & Ramazanzade, S. (2009). Ogastemma Brummitt (Boraginaceae), a new genus for the flora of Iran. Iranian Journal of Botany 15: 172-174.

Other Data

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

Sources

  • Angiosperm Extinction Risk Predictions v1

    • Angiosperm Threat Predictions
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  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2025. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2025. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Science Photographs

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