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Bothriospermum (Bothriospermum)

Description

Bothriospermum is a genus of strawberry plants . Bothriospermum is included in the family of strawberry plants. It is a genus of flowering plants in the Boraginaceae family . It comprises 15 species described and of these, only 7 accepted. They are distributed in Asia . They are annual or biennial thin herbs with alternate leaves. Flowers small, axillary, pedicelled, in upper clusters. Chalice 5-match. Tube of little cylindrical corolla, throat with 5 scales; lobes ± diffusion. The fruit is a walnut, dorsally compressed. The genus was described by Alexander Bunge and published in Enumeratio Plantarum, quas in China you Borealis 47. 1833.

Taxonomic tree

  • Domain: Eukarya

    • Kingdom:

      • Phylum: Tracheophyta

        • Class: Magnoliopsida

          • Order: Boraginales

            • Family: Boraginaceae

              • Genus: Bothriospermum