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Anchusa capensis

Common names: Cape-forget-me-not, anchusa (Eng.); vergeetmynietjie, ystergras, koringblom, ossetongblaar (Afr.); petlekheme (Sesotho)

Family: Boraginaceae

22 / 08 / 2016 | Monique Mcquillan | Kirstenbosch NBG

Lobostemon montanus

Common names: mountain lobostemon (Eng.); agtdaegeneesbos (Afr.)

Family: Boraginaceae

... it from the closely related European genus Echium. In the Boraginaceae or forget-me-not family, Lobostemon montanus is ...

15 / 08 / 2011 | Anthony Hitchcock | Kirstenbosch NBG

Lobostemon belliformis

Common names: Gouriqua lobostemon (Eng.); Gouriqua agtdaegeneesbos (Afr.)

Family: Boraginaceae

... it from the closely related European genus, Echium. In the Boraginaceae or forget-me-not family, Lobostemon belliformis ...

01 / 08 / 2011 | Anthony Hitchcock | Kirstenbosch NBG

Trichodesma angustifolium

Common names: blue-bells

Family: Boraginaceae

... leaves. The genus Trichodesma is a member of the family Boraginaceae (forget-me-nots) which comprises about 45 ...

28 / 01 / 2008 | Stoffel Petrus Pieter Bester | National Herbarium Pretoria

Lobostemon

Common names: pajama bush

Family: Boraginaceae

02 / 10 / 2006 | M Buys | Compton Herbarium

Codon royenii

Common names: honey bush (Eng.); heuningbos, suikerkelk (Afr.)

Family: Boraginaceae

... characters between Codon and other members of Boraginaceae indicate that Codon should be placed in a subfamily within Boraginaceae s.l. A subfamily, Codonoideae, was established ... to accommodate this southern African genus in the Boraginaceae (Retief & Van Wyk 2005). Codon royenii L. Codon ...

20 / 02 / 2006 | Elizabeth Retief | National Herbarium Pretoria

Lobostemon fruticosus

Common names: pajama bush ( Eng. ); agtdaegeneesbos, douwurmbos, luibos, lobos (Afr.)

Family: Boraginaceae

... where it is also a serious weed, Paterson 's curse. In the Boraginaceae or forget-me-not family, Lobostemon fruticosus , ...

24 / 10 / 2005 | Liesl Van der Walt | Kirstenbosch NBG

Cynoglossum hispidum

Common names: hound's tongue (Eng.); beestongblaar, knoppiesklitsbossie, ossetongblaar (Afr.); bohomenyana (Southern Sotho)

Family: Boraginaceae

... Lesotho and Swaziland. Seeds of members of the family Boraginaceae are dispersed in various ways. The bright red or ...

30 / 05 / 2005 | Elizabeth Retief | National Herbarium Pretoria

Trichodesma physaloides

Common names: Chocolate Bells

Family: Boraginaceae

... by Robert Brown in 1810. It belongs to the family Boraginaceae established by Jussieu (1789), and subfamily ...

09 / 05 / 2005 | Elizabeth Retief | National Herbarium Pretoria

Boraginaceae

Common names: forget-me-not, borage family Class: Angiospermae: Dicotyledones

Family: Boraginaceae

... Elizabeth Retief National Herbarium August 2004 Boraginaceae is a family displaying a range of differences in ... nutlets are glabrous or variously ornamented. The family Boraginaceae comprises about 135 genera and 2 600 species, ... the families Hydrophyllaceae and Lennoaceae as synonyms of Boraginaceae. Members occur on all the continents and also on ...

23 / 08 / 2004 | Elizabeth Retief | National Herbarium Pretoria