Echium creticum

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Boraginales
Classification System: APG IV Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Plantae Cladus: Angiosperms Cladus: Eudicots Cladus: Core eudicots Cladus: Asterids Cladus: Lamiids Ordo: Boraginales

Echium creticum L., Sp. Pl. 1: 139 (1753.)

Typus: “Habitat in Creta” [in error]. Lectotypus, designated by R.M.S. Batarda Fernandes, Bol. Soc. Brot. sér. 2, 43: 152 (1969): LINN 191.21 (LINN)

Heterotypic
- Echium megalanthum Steud., Nomencl. Bot., ed. 2, 1: 541 (1840).
- Echium plantagineum Kunze, Flora 29: 761 (1846), nom. illeg. non L.
- Echium rubrum Moench, Methodus: 422 (1794).
- Echium setosum Delile, Descr. Egypte, Hist. Nat.: 186 (1813).
- Echium verecundum Salisb., Prodr. Stirp. Chap. Allerton: 115 (1796).

Native distribution areas:
Continental: Europe Regional: Southwestern Europe Baleares, Corse, France, Portugal, Sardegna, Spain. Regional: Southeastern Europe Italy, Sicilia (doubtfully present). Continental: Africa Regional: Northern Africa Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia. References: Brummitt, R.K. 2001. TDWG – World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2^nd Edition

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Valdés, B. 2007. Notas sobre el género Echium L. Lagascalia 27: 53–71. PDF Reference page.
Fernandes, R.M.S.B. 1969. Quelques notes sur le genre Echium L. Boletim da Sociedade Broteriana, ser. 2 43: 145–158. Full issue PDF Reference page.

Govaerts, R. et al. 2020. Echium creticum in Kew Science Plants of the World Online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2020 Oct 04. Reference page.
International Plant Names Index. 2020. Echium creticum. Published online. Accessed: Oct 04 2020.
Tropicos.org 2020. Echium creticum. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 04 Oct 2020.
Euro+Med 2006 onwards: Echium creticum in Euro+Med PlantBase – the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity. Published online. Accessed: 2020 Oct 12.
Hassler, M. 2020. Echium creticum. World Plants: Synonymic Checklists of the Vascular Plants of the World In: Roskovh, Y., Abucay, L., Orrell, T., Nicolson, D., Bailly, N., Kirk, P., Bourgoin, T., DeWalt, R.E., Decock, W., De Wever, A., Nieukerken, E. van, Zarucchi, J. & Penev, L., eds. 2020. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life. Published online. Accessed: 2020 Oct 04. Reference page.
USDA, ARS, Germplasm Resources Information Network. Echium creticum in the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN), U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service. Accessed: 07-Oct-06.

English: Cretan viper's bugloss
español: buglosa de Creta