Biology:Heliotropium crispum

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Short description: Species of plant

Heliotropium crispum
Heliotropium crispum 97A37.jpg
In habitat on the seashore, Tenerife
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Boraginales
Family: Boraginaceae
Genus: Heliotropium
Species:
H. crispum
Binomial name
Heliotropium crispum
Desf.[1]
Synonyms[1]
  • Bourjotia kralikii Pomel
  • (Lehm.) DC. Willd. ex Schult.
  • Banks ex Buch Heliotropium suffruticescens
  • Heliotropium erosum Pomel
  • Heliotropium bacciferum var. erosum Lehm.
  • Heliotropium kralikii Heliophytum erosum
  • (Lehm.) Hadidy Pomel
  • Heliotropium maroccanum Heliotropium canariense
  • Lehm. Heliotropium plebeium

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. 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. 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)
  3. Plant Resources of Tropical Africa, http://uses.plantnet-project.org/e/index.php?title=Heliotropium_ramosissimum_(PROTA) 

Wikidata ☰ Q47528528 entry