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Genus of flowering plants

Pontechium
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Boraginales
Family: Boraginaceae
Genus: Pontechium
Böhle & Hilger (2000)
Species: P. maculatum
Binomial name
Pontechium maculatum
(L.) Böhle & Hilger (2000)
Synonyms
Synonymy
  • Echium acutifolium Lehm. (1817)
  • Echium clavatum Willd. ex Lehm. (1818)
  • Echium italicum S.G.Gmel. (1773), nom. illeg.
  • Echium kochii Litard. (1942)
  • Echium linearifolium K.Koch (1849), nom. illeg.
  • Echium maculatum L. (1759)
  • Echium papillosum K.Koch (1843), nom. illeg.
  • Echium popovii Dobrocz. (1977)
  • Echium rubrum Jacq. (1778), nom. illeg.
  • Echium russicum S.G.Gmel. (1774)
  • Echium russicum var. acutifolium (Lehm.) G.Klotz (1960)
  • Echium thyrsoideum Vent. (1805)
  • Pontechium maculatum var. acutifolium (Lehm.) Böhle & Hilger (2000)

Pontechium maculatum is a species of flowering plant in the borage family, Boraginaceae. It is the sole species in genus Pontechium. It is a biennial native to parts of Europe and western Asia, ranging from Poland and Austria through the Balkans and Ukraine to eastern European Russia, the Caucasus, Turkey, and Turkmenistan.

The species was first described as Echium maculatum by Carl Linnaeus in 1759. In 2000 Böhle & Hilger placed it in its own genus as Pontechium maculatum.

References

  1. ^ Pontechium maculatum (L.) Böhle & Hilger. Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 23 July 2024.
  2. Hilger, Hartmut H.; Böhle, Uta-Regina (2000). "Pontechium: a new genus distinct from Echium and Lobostemon (Boraginaceae)". Taxon. 49 (4): 737–746. doi:10.2307/1223974. JSTOR 1223974.
Taxon identifiers
Pontechium
Pontechium maculatum
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