Alkanna
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| Alkanna | |
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| Alkanna orientalis | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Eudicots |
| (unranked): | Asterids |
| Order: | (unplaced) |
| Family: | Boraginaceae |
| Genus: | Alkanna Tausch, 1824 |
Alkanna is a genus of herbaceous plants including about 60 species of the family Boraginaceae. The original alkanna plant is a native of the Levant but is now found, wild and cultivated, throughout much of Europe and around the Mediterranean.[1]
[edit] Selected species
- A. amana Rech.f.
- A. angustifolia Sümbül
- A. areolata Boiss.
- A. attilae P.H.Davis
- A. aucheriana A.DC.
- A. auranitica Mouterde
- A. bracteosa Boiss.
- A. caliensis Heldr. ex Boiss.
- A. cappadocica Boiss. & Balansa
- A. confusa Sam. ex Rech.f.
- A. corcyrensis Hayek
- A. cordifolia K.Koch
- A. dumanii Sümbül
- A. frigida Boiss.
- A. froedinii Rech.f.
- A. galilaea Boiss.
- A. graeca Boiss. & Spruner
- A. haussknechtii Bornm.
- A. hirsutissima (Bertol.) A.DC.
- A. hispida Hub.-Mor.
- A. incana Boiss.
- A. jordanovii St.Kozhukharov
- A. kotschyana A.DC.
- A. leiocarpa Rech.f.
- A. leptophylla Rech.f.
- A. lutea A.DC.
- A. macrophylla Boiss. & Heldr.
- A. macrosiphon Boiss. & Heldr.
- A. maleolens Bornm.
- A. megacarpa A.DC.
- A. methanaea Hausskn.
- A. milliana Sümbül
- A. mughlae H.Duman, Güner
& Cagban - A. noneiformis Griseb.
- A. oreodaxo Hub.-Mor.
- A. orientalis (L.) Boiss.
- A. pamphylica Hub.-Mor. & Reese
- A. pelia (Halácsy) Rech.f.
- A. phrygia Bornm.
- A. pinardi Boiss.
- A. pindicola Hausskn.
- A. prasinophylla Rech.f.
- A. primuliflora Griseb.
- A. pseudotinctoria Hub.-Mor.
- A. pulmonaria Griseb.
- A. punctulata Hub.-Mor.
- A. sandwithii Rech.f.
- A. sartoriana Boiss. & Heldr.
- A. saxicola Hub.-Mor.
- A. scardica Griseb.
- A. shattuckia Post
- A. sieberi A.DC.
- A. sieheana Rech.f.
- A. stojanovii St.Kozhukharov
- A. stribrnyi Velen.
- A. strigosa Boiss. & Hohen.
- A. syriaca (Boiss. & Hohen.) Boiss.
- A. tinctoria Tausch
- A. trichophila Hub.-Mor.
- A. tubulosa Boiss.
- A. verecunda Hub.-Mor.
- A. viscidula Boiss.
- List sources : NOTE: Each species from the list at Tropicos.org was also checked against its corresponding entry at theplantlist.org for accepted status before being included on this page. [2]
[edit] References
- ^ Davidson, Alan, and Tom Jaine. The Oxford companion to food. Oxford University Press, USA, 2006. 805. Print. Retrieved Aug. 09, 2010, from [1]
- ^ "Name - !Alkanna Tausch subordinate taxa". Tropicos. Saint Louis, Missouri: Missouri Botanical Garden. http://www.tropicos.org/Name/40009919?tab=subordinatetaxa. Retrieved June 24, 2011.
