Biology:Heliotropioideae
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Short description: Subfamily of flowering plants
| Heliotropioideae | |
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| Heliotropium europaeum | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Boraginales |
| Family: | Boraginaceae |
| Subfamily: | Heliotropioideae |
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Heliotropioideae was a subfamily of the flowering plant family Boraginaceae, comprising roughly 450 species. A 2016 revision of the Boraginales recognises it as a distinct family, Heliotropiaceae.[1]
Genera
According to the 2016 revision, there are four genera:[1]
- Euploca Nutt. (~100 species, almost cosmopolitan)
- Heliotropium L. (~325 species, almost cosmopolitan; incl. Tournefortia L.)
- Ixorhea Fenzl (1 species, Argentina)
- Myriopus Small (~25 species, Neotropics)
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Luebert, F.; Cecchi, L.; Frohlich, M.W. et al. (2016). "Familial classification of the Boraginales". Taxon 65 (3): 502–522. doi:10.12705/653.5. ISSN 0040-0262. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/304454062. Retrieved 16 June 2018.
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