Echium rubrum

Taxonavigation

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

Familia: Boraginaceae
Subfamilia: Boraginoideae
Tribus: Lithospermeae
Genus: Echium
Sectio: E. sect. Echium
Species: Echium rubrum

Name

Echium rubrum Forssk., Fl. Aegypt.-Arab.: 41 (1775).

Synonyms

• Homotypic
  • Isoplesion rubrum (Forssk.) Raf., Fl. Tellur. 4: 86 (1838).
• Heterotypic
  • Echium setosum Vahl. Symb. Bot. 2: 35 (1791).
  • Echium spathulatum Viv., Fl. Libyc. Spec.: 8 (1824).
  • Echium verecundum Viv., Pl. Aegypt. Dec.: 25 (1830).

Homonyms

• Echium rubrum Jacq. = Pontechium maculatum (L.) Böhle & Hilger
• Echium rubrum Moench = Echium creticum L.

Distribution

Native distribution areas:
Continental: Africa Regional: Northern Africa Egypt, Libya. Continental: Asia-Temperate Regional: Western Asia Lebanon-Syria, Sinai. References: Brummitt, R.K. 2001. TDWG – World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2nd Edition

References

Primary references

• Forsskål, P. (†). 1775. Flora Aegyptiaco-Arabica. Sive descriptiones plantarum, quas per Aegyptum inferiorem et Arabiam felicem detexit, illustravit Petrus Forskål. Post mortem auctoris edidit Carsten Niebuhr. Ex officina Mölleri, Hauniae [Copenhagen]. DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.41 BHL Reference page. 

Links

• Govaerts, R. et al. 2020. Echium rubrum in Kew Science Plants of the World Online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2020 Oct 15. Reference page. 
• International Plant Names Index. 2020. Echium rubrum. Published online. Accessed: Oct 15 2020.
• Euro+Med 2006 onwards: Echium rubrum in Euro+Med PlantBase – the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity. Published online. Accessed: 2020 Oct 15.
• Hassler, M. 2020. Echium rubrum. 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 15. Reference page. 

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