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Pectocarya platycarpa

(Broad-Fruit Combseed)

Common Names

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Common Names in English:

Broad-Fruit Combseed, Broadfruit Combseed, Broadnut Combseed

Description

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Family Boraginaceae

Herbs perennial , biennial, or annual , less often lianas, shrubs , or trees , usually bristly or scabrous-pubescent. Leaves simple , exstipulate , alternate, rarely opposite, entire or serrate at margin . Inflorescences often double scorpioid cymes, rarely solitary; bracts present or absent. Flowers bisexual , actinomorphic , rarely zygomorphic. Calyx usually 5-parted or lobed , mostly persistent . Corolla tubular , campanulate , rotate, funnelform , or salverform ; tube appendages 5, rarely more, mostly trapeziform, rarely absent, sometimes a ring of hairs present; limb usually 5-parted; lobes overlapping, rarely twisted in bud. Stamens 5, inserted on corolla tube or rarely at throat , included or rarely exserted; anthers introrse , 2-loculed, usually dorsifixed at base , less often medifixed , dehiscence longitudinal . Nectaries at base of corolla tube or on disc below ovary. Ovary superior, 2-carpellate; locules 2 and each with 2 ovules, or 4 and each with 1 ovule; ovules nearly atropous , semianatropous, or anatropous . Style terminal or gynobasic , branched or not. Gynobase flat, fastigiate , or subulate . Fruit 1-4-seeded drupes or nutlets (mericarps) ; nutlets mostly dry, often ornamented with wings, prickles and/or glochids (stiff bristles with barbed or anchorlike tips ) . Seeds vertical or oblique , coat membranous; embryo straight, less often curved ; cotyledons flat, fleshy .

About 156 genera and 2500 species: temperate and tropical regions , centered in the Mediterranean region; 47 genera and 294 species in China, of which four genera and 156 species are endemic.[1]

Habitat

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 2,765 meters (0 to 9,072 feet).[2]

Taxonomy

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Unambiguous Synonyms

  1. Pectocarya gracilis I. M. Johnston Var. platycarpa Munz & Johnston
  2. Pectocarya gracilis platycarpa Munz & Johnston
  3. Pectocarya gracilis var. platycarpa Munz & Johnston
  4. Pectocarya linearis (Ruiz & Pav.) Dc. Var. platycarpa (Munz & I. M. Johnst.) Cronquist
  5. Pectocarya linearis var. platycarpa (Munz & Johnston) Cronq.

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name . Latest taxonomic scrutiny: 15-Mar-2000

Similar Species

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Members of the genus Pectocarya

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 19 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:

P. anomala · P. boliviana · P. chilensis · P. dimorpha · P. gracilis · P. heterocarpa (Chuckwalla Combseed) · P. lateriflora · P. linearis (Sagebrush Combseed) · P. linearis ferocula (Sagebrush Combseed) · P. linearis penicillata · P. linearis subsp. ferocula (Sagebrush Combseed) · P. miser · P. palmeri (Palmer's Combseed) · P. penicillata (Short-Leaf Combseed) · P. peninsularis (Peninsular Pectocarya) · P. platycarpa (Broad-Fruit Combseed) · P. pusilla (Purple Prairieclover) · P. recurvata (Curvenut Combseed) · P. setosa (Bristly Combseed)

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Notes

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Contributors

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal February 16, 2008:

Identifiers

Footnotes

  1. Gelin Zhu, Harald Riedl & Rudolf V. Kamelin "Boraginaceae". in Flora of China Vol. 16 Page 329. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
  2. Mean = 855.450 meters (2,806.594 feet), Standard Deviation = 514.970 based on 193 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
Last Revised: 7/1/2009