Heliotropium hirsutissimum
| Heliotropium hirsutissimum | |
|---|---|
| Inflorescence | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Boraginales |
| Family: | Heliotropiaceae |
| Genus: | Heliotropium |
| Species: | H. hirsutissimum
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| Binomial name | |
| Heliotropium hirsutissimum | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Heliotropium villosum Willd. | |
Heliotropium hirsutissimum, the hairy heliotrope, is a species of flowering plant in the family Boraginaceae, native to the eastern Mediterranean.[1] (Grauer is listed as the authority by some sources.[2])
It contains a number of pyrrolizidine alkaloids.[3]
Description
The plant grows on edges of fields, roads and tracks, and waste ground. It generally has long fine projecting hairs and greyish looking leaves, which inspires its name 'hairy heliotrope', and on maturing the flowering axes extend greatly, becoming long and curvy, the whole plant when large taking on a rather chaotic look. Its flowers are characterised by prominent hairy bulges at the mouth of their yellow throat, the yellow maturing pinkish before withering (iNaturalist photographs).[4]
Distribution
It is native to Cyprus, East Aegean Is., Egypt, Greece, Crete, Lebanon-Syria, Libya, Palestine, Turkey (Türkiye), Turkey-in-Europe.[1]
References
- ^ a b c d Plants of the World Online (with map)
- ^ GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. "Heliotropium hirsutissimum Grauer". gbif.org. GBIF Secretariat. Retrieved 15 January 2022.
- ^ Constantinidis, Theophanis; Harvala, Catherine; Skaltsounis, Alexios L. (1993). "Pyrrolizidine N-oxide alkaloids of Heliotropium hirsutissimum". Phytochemistry. 32 (5): 1335–1337. doi:10.1016/S0031-9422(00)95116-1.
- ^ PH Davis (1978). Flora of Turkey and the East Aegean Islands, vol. 6, p. 254.