Contains 15 genera and 33 accepted taxa overall.
This family is completely databased for all specimens.
Characteristics
BORAGINACEAE
Dicot
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Here Boraginaceae has been expanded to include Hydrophyllaceae. In a survey, 184 of 272 (68%) respondents preferred the broad classification of Boraginaceae as the sole family of Boraginales (Christenhusz et al. 2015; APG IV 2016). In the same survey, 42 (15%) preferred splitting the order into eight families (see Luebert et al. 2016; Hasenstab-Lehman 2017). Forty-six had no opinion on the matter. The survey was disseminated by Taxacom, Evoldir, and other means. If split into eight families, then Florida would have Cordiaceae (Cordia, Varronia), Namaceae (Nama), Hydrophyllaceae (Nemophila), Heliotropaceae (Euploca, Heliotropium, Myriopus), Ehretiaceae (Bourreria, Ehretia), and Boraginaceae s.s. (Andersonglossum, Buglossoides, Cynoglossumm, Lithospermum, Myosotis).
Classification
BORAGINALES
BORAGINACEAE
Genera
| Genus | Common Name | Taxa Count | Herbarium Specimens | Photos |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Andersonglossum | 1 | |||
| Bourreria | STRONGBARK | 3 | ||
| Buglossoides | BUGLOSSOIDES | 1 | ||
| Cordia | CORDIA | 2 | ||
| Cynoglossum | HOUND'S TONGUE | 1 | ||
| Ehretia | EHRETIA; SCORPIONBUSH | 2 | ||
| Euploca | 3 | |||
| Heliotropium | HELIOTROPE | 8 | ||
| Lithospermum | GROMWELL | 4 | ||
| Myosotis | FORGET-ME-NOT | 1 | ||
| Myriopus | SOLDIERBUSH | 1 | ||
| Nama | FIDDLELEAF | 1 | ||
| Nemophila | BABY BLUE EYES | 1 | ||
| Phacelia | Phacelia | 1 | ||
| Varronia | 3 |
[Family identification key]
1. Leaves palmately or pinnately lobed or divided (basal leaves sometimes simple and unlobed or undivided)
1. Leaves simple, undivided and unlobed
2
2. Annual, prostrate to decumbent; inflorescence a solitary flower; fruit usually many-seeded (Namoideae or Namaceae)
2. Annual or perennial, usually erect, rarely prostrate to decumbent; inflorescence usually many-flowered, rarely a solitary flower; fruit usually with 1-4 seeds, rarely to 8
3
3. Inflorescence elongate, racemiform, scorpioid, of densely clustered flowers directly adjacent or overlapping (flowers distant and not overlapping in the vine Myriopus); flowers small, the corolla 1.5-6 mm wide and long; style terminal and undivided, the stigma basal and roughly circular with a sterile, sometimes 2-lobed apex
3. Inflorescence usually cymose, thyrsoid, umbellate, dichasial, monochasial, or racemiform, the flowers typically distant and not overlapping, or flowers solitary; flowers large to small, the corolla 1.5-14 mm wide or long; style gynobasic and embedded or terminal, undivided to divided
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4. Herbs; style gynobasic; fruit dry nutlets
4. Woody vine, shrub, or tree; fruit drupaceous
5
5. Stigmatic branches 4; fruit white, pink, orange, to red; ovules orthotropous; cotyledons plicate
5. Stigmatic branches 2; fruit orange to red; ovules anatropous; cotyledons not plicate
1. (Boraginoideae or Boraginaceae s.str.) Fruit with hooked bristles
2
1. Fruit without hooked bristles
3
2. Leaves hirsute; corolla white; fruit with persistent style inconspicuous
2. Leaves sericeous; corolla bluish; fruit with persistent style conspicuous
3. Calyx with uncinate trichomes
3. Calyx without uncinate trichomes
4
4. Annual; corolla white to bluish; fruit verrucose-tuberculate
4. Perennial; corolla white to yellow or orange; fruit smooth, shiny, with pits or rugose
1. (Cordioideae or Cordiaceae) Trees; inflorescence corymbose-cymose
1. Shrubs; inflorescence spicate or capitate
1. (Ehretoideae or Ehretiaceae) Leaf blade entire
1. Leaf blade toothed
1. (Heliotropioideae or Heliotropiaceae) Vine; flowers distant and not overlapping
1. Prostrate to erect herb or shrub, or vines; flowers densely clustered adjacent or overlapping
2
2. Flowers bracteate; anthers coherent at apex; fruit of 4 1-seeded nutlets
2. Flowers ebracteate; anthers free; fruit of 2 2-seeded nutlets
1. (Hydrophylloideae or Hydrophyllaceae) Overall leaf blade mostly as wide as or wider than long; flowers usually solitary
1. Overall leaf blade mostly much longer than wide; inflorescence of several flowers