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Cordia caffra

Common names: septee saucer-berry (Eng.); septeeboom (Afr.); mududa (V)

Family: Boraginaceae

... name for part of Eastern Cape. This tree belongs to the Boraginaceae or forget-me-not family, which also includes the ...

20 / 10 / 2003 | Nick Klapwijk | Pretoria NBG

Ehretia rigida

Common names: puzzle bush (Eng.); deurmekaarbos (Afr.); umHlele (Zulu); Morobe (Northern Sotho); iBotshane (Xhosa); Mutepe (Venda)

Family: Boraginaceae

23 / 12 / 2003 | Avhurengwi Phillemon Ndou | Walter Sisulu NBG

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

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

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

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

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