Echium giganteum

Echium giganteum

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Boraginales 
Classification System: APG IV

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Cladus: Angiosperms
Cladus: Eudicots
Cladus: Core eudicots
Cladus: Asterids
Cladus: Lamiids
Ordo: Boraginales

Familia: Boraginaceae
Subfamilia: Boraginoideae
Tribus: Lithospermeae
Genus: Echium
Sectio: E. sect. Gigantea
Species:

Name

Echium giganteum L.f., Suppl. Pl.: 131 (1782).

  • Typus: «N. coast of Tenerife in steep places 1778», Masson (Holotypus: BM)

Synonyms

  • Homotypic
    • Isoplesion giganteum (L.f.) Raf., Fl. Tellur. 4: 86 (1836).
  • Heterotypic
    • Echium candicans Lam., Tabl. Encyc. 1: 414 (1791).
    • Echium rupestre Salisb., Prodr. Stirp. Chap. Allerton: 114 (1796).

Distribution

Native distribution areas:
  • Continental: Africa
    • Regional: Macaronesia
      • Canary Islands (Tenerife).

References: Brummitt, R.K. 2001. TDWG – World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2nd Edition

References

Primary references

  • Linnaeus, C. (filius) 1782 ["1781"]. Supplementum Plantarum systematis vegetabilium editionis decimae tertiae, generum plantarum editionis sextae, et specierum plantarum editionis secundae. [XVI]+468 pp. Impensis Orphanotrophei, Brunsvigae [Braunschweig]. BHL Reference page. : 131

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