Biology:Heliotropium crispum
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Short description: Species of plant
Heliotropium crispum | |
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In habitat on the seashore, Tenerife | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Asterids |
Order: | Boraginales |
Family: | Boraginaceae |
Genus: | Heliotropium |
Species: | H. crispum
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Binomial name | |
Heliotropium crispum Desf.[1]
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Synonyms[1] | |
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Heliotropium crispum is a species of flowering plant in the family Boraginaceae, native to western Africa (including the Canary Islands), Egypt, Sudan, south-western Asia, and Pakistan. It was first described by René Louiche Desfontaines.[1]
Description
Heliotropium crispum is a very variable annual or perennial herbaceous plant. It has greyish leaves and dense cymes of small white flowers.[2]
Distribution and habitat
Heliotropium crispum is native to western Africa,[3] from the Canary Islands, Mauritania and Senegal to Nigeria, Egypt and Sudan, and to Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan and Pakistan .[1] In the Canary Islands, it is found on dry (leeward) southern or western slopes of all the islands.[2]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "Heliotropium crispum Desf.", Plants of the World Online (Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew), https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:116781-1, retrieved 2018-02-01
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Bramwell, David; Bramwell, Zoë (2001), Wild Flowers of the Canary Islands (2nd ed.), Madrid: Editorial Rueda, p. 278, ISBN 84-7207-129-4 (as Heliotropium bacciferum)
- ↑ Plant Resources of Tropical Africa, http://uses.plantnet-project.org/e/index.php?title=Heliotropium_ramosissimum_(PROTA)
Wikidata ☰ Q47528528 entry
Original source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heliotropium crispum.
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