Euploca | |
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Euploca salicoides | |
Scientific classification
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Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Asterids |
Order: | Boraginales |
Family: | Boraginaceae |
Subfamily: | Heliotropioideae |
Genus: |
Euploca Nutt. [1] |
Type species | |
E. convolvulacea Nutt. | |
Synonyms [2] [3] | |
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Euploca is an almost cosmopolitan genus of plants with around 100 species. [3] It was first described by Thomas Nuttall in 1837. [1] [4] While part of the broadly defined Boraginaceae in the APG IV system from 2016, [5] a revision of the order Boraginales from the same year includes Euploca in the separate family Heliotropiaceae. [3] Its species used to be classified in the genera Hilgeria and Schleidenia and in Heliotropium sect. Orthostachys, but were found to form an independent lineage in a molecular phylogenetic analysis, more closely related to Myriopus than to Heliotropium. [2] While many species use the C4 photosynthetic pathway, [6] there are also C3–C4 intermediate species. [7] [8] Species have leaves with a C4-typical Kranz anatomy. [2]
Selected species:
Euploca | |
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Euploca salicoides | |
Scientific classification
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Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Asterids |
Order: | Boraginales |
Family: | Boraginaceae |
Subfamily: | Heliotropioideae |
Genus: |
Euploca Nutt. [1] |
Type species | |
E. convolvulacea Nutt. | |
Synonyms [2] [3] | |
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Euploca is an almost cosmopolitan genus of plants with around 100 species. [3] It was first described by Thomas Nuttall in 1837. [1] [4] While part of the broadly defined Boraginaceae in the APG IV system from 2016, [5] a revision of the order Boraginales from the same year includes Euploca in the separate family Heliotropiaceae. [3] Its species used to be classified in the genera Hilgeria and Schleidenia and in Heliotropium sect. Orthostachys, but were found to form an independent lineage in a molecular phylogenetic analysis, more closely related to Myriopus than to Heliotropium. [2] While many species use the C4 photosynthetic pathway, [6] there are also C3–C4 intermediate species. [7] [8] Species have leaves with a C4-typical Kranz anatomy. [2]
Selected species: