Craniospermum

Craniospermum
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Boraginales
Family: Boraginaceae
Subfamily: Cynoglossoideae
Tribe: Craniospermeae
Genus: Craniospermum
Lehm.[1]
Species

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Synonyms[2]

Diploloma Schrenk

Craniospermum is a genus of flowering plants in the family Boraginaceae, native to Kazakhstan, the Altai, Siberia (Buryatiya, Irkutsk, Tuva), Mongolia, and Xinjiang and Inner Mongolia in China.[2] They are tuft-forming biennial or perennial herbs, and are generally highly endemic, thought to be relicts of the hypothesized ancient Mediterranean flora.[3][4]

Species

Currently accepted species include:[2]

References

  1. ^ Pl. Asperif. Nucif.: 336 (1818)
  2. ^ a b c "Craniospermum Lehm". Plants of the World Online. Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 2017. Retrieved 8 September 2020.
  3. ^ Kadereit, Joachim W.; Bittrich, Volker (9 April 2016). Flowering Plants. Eudicots: Aquifoliales, Boraginales, Bruniales, Dipsacales, Escalloniales, Garryales, Paracryphiales, Solanales (Except Convolvulaceae), Icacinaceae, Metteniusaceae, Vahliaceae. Springer. p. 97. ISBN 9783319285344.
  4. ^ Ovchinnikova, Svetlana (2019). "Ecological features and new location of the rare relict species Craniospermum pseudotuvinicum (Boraginaceae)". Bio Web of Conferences. 16: 00024. doi:10.1051/bioconf/20191600024.