Boraginoideae
Boraginoideae is a subfamily of the flowering plant family Boraginaceae, as that family is defined in the APG III system of classification for flowering plants. The Angiosperm Phylogeny Group has not actually specified subfamilies within Boraginaceae. Some taxonomists place the genera Codon and Wellstedia in Boraginoideae. Others place one or both of these in separate, monogeneric subfamilies. Codon was long regarded as an odd member of Hydrophylloideae, but in 1998, a molecular phylogenetic study showed that...
11 branches of this subfamily, most-observed first
Lithospermeae
tribeLithospermeae
Boragineae
tribeBoragineae
Eightday Healthbushes
genusLobostemon
Codoneae
tribeCodoneae
Eritrichieae
tribeEritrichieae
Boragebrushes
genusEchiostachys
Echiochileae
tribeEchiochileae
Maharanga
genusMaharanga
Stenosolenium
genusStenosolenium
Cystostemon
genusCystostemon
Ancistrocarya
genusAncistrocarya
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 795681.