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On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 6:48 PM, Satish Phadke <[email protected]> wrote: > Flora of Mah. BSI mentions following native genera > *Trees or shrubs, above 3m tall* > *Cordia > Ehretia* > *Herbs and undershrubs* > *Coldenia > Rotula > Heliotropium > Trichodesma > Cynoglossum > Paracaryopsis > Sericostema > **It also mentions few cultivated sp.** > Borago officinalis > Cordia sebestena > Heliotropium peruvinum. > * > > On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 6:42 PM, Satish Phadke <[email protected]>wrote: > >> To add in short: >> >> *Distinguishing characters (always present)* >> >> ~Leaves usually alternate, exstipulate. >> ~Inflorescence *cymose*, the branches often *scorpioid*, helicoid, or >> reduced and capitate to glomerate. >> ~Corolla gamopetalous. >> ~Stamens isomerous inserted in the corolla tube. >> ~Ovary superior, 2-carpellate, but usually becoming falsely 4-locular. >> >> *I have compiled some information from various sources at my blog long >> ago.* >> http://satishphadke.blogspot.in/2008/04/boraginaceae.html >> >> >> >> >> On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 6:53 PM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > >> > Boraginaceae is an interesting family of flowering plants often easily >> recognised by somewhat rough stems and coiled inflorescence. Here is some >> information to help members with uploads of members of this family. Members >> are requested to participate liberally with uploads of both identified and >> unidentified photographs. >> > >> > Boraginaceae A. L. de Jussieu Borage family >> > 117 genera, 2,435 species >> > Widely distributed in temperate, tropical and subtropical regions. >> > >> > Salient features: Bristly herbs, stems cylindrical, leaves alternate, >> inflorescence helicoid cymes, flowers pentamerous, actinomorphic, carpels >> 2, ovary 4-lobed, style gynobasic, fruit with 4 nutlets. >> > >> > Major genera: Cordia (300 species), Heliotropium (250) Tournefortia >> (240), Onosma (140), Myosotis (90), Cynoglossum (75) and Ehretia (75). >> > >> > Description: Herbs, shrubs or trees (Cordia), sometimes lianas, inner >> phloem lacking, hairs with basal cystolith and often calcified or >> silicified and as such plants bristly, rough to touch. Leaves alternate, >> simple, entire, venation pinnate, reticulate, stipules absent. >> Inflorescence usually of helicoid cymes, rarely scorpioid. Flowers >> bisexual, actinomorphic, rarely zygomorphic (Echium), hypogynous, >> pentamerous. Calyx with 5 sepals, free or slightly connate at base, >> persistent. Corolla with 5 petals, united, rotate, tubular or funnel >> shaped, usually plicate. Androecium with 5 stamens, epipetalous, inserted >> in corolla tube, filaments free, bithecous, anthers introrse, dehiscence >> longitudinal, pollen grains tricolporate or multiporate, filaments often >> with nectar discs at base. Gynoecium with 2 united carpels, ovary superior, >> deeply 4-lobed, bilocular, axile placentation, becoming 4-locular due to >> false septa, style 1, terminal or gynobasic, stigma 1 or bilobed, capitate >> or truncate, ovary seated on a nectary. Fruit a drupe with one 4-seeded, >> two 2-seeded or four 1-seeded pits or schizocarp with four 1-seeded >> nutlets; seeds with embryo straight or curved. Pollination mostly by >> insects. Drupaceous fruits are dispersed by birds, whereas corky ones >> (Argusia, Cordia) are carried away by water. >> > >> > Economic importance: Several species of Heliotropium (heliotrope), >> Mertensia (virgin bluebells), Myosotis (forget-me-not), Cordia (Geiger >> tree), Cynoglossum (hound’s tongue) and Pulmonaria (lungwort) are grown as >> ornamentals. Several species such as Borago officinalis (borage), >> Symphytum officinalis (comphrey) and Lithospermum spp. (pucoon) have been >> used as medicinal herbs. Alkanna tinctoria (alkanet) is a source of red dye >> used to stain wood and marble and to colour medicines, wines and cosmetics. >> > >> > Expected genera in India >> > >> > Adelocaryum >> > Anchusa >> > Arnebia >> > Asperugo >> > Bothriospermum >> > Chionocharis >> > Cordia >> > Cynoglossum >> > Ehretia >> > Echinospermum >> > Eritrichium >> > Hackelia >> > Heliotropium >> > Lappula >> > Lindelofia >> > Lithospermum >> > Lycopsis >> > Maharanga >> > Mertensia >> > Microula >> > Myosotis >> > Onosma >> > Paracaryum >> > Pseudomertensia >> > Rochelia >> > Solenanthus >> > Trigonotis >> > >> > >> > >> > -- >> > Dr. Gurcharan Singh >> > Retired Associate Professor >> > SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007 >> > Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018. >> > Phone: 011-25518297 Mob: 9810359089 >> > http://www.gurcharanfamily.com/ >> > http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ >> > >> >> >> >> -- >> Dr Satish Phadke > > > > > -- > Dr Satish Phadke > -- Usha di ===========
