Borago
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Vernacular names of plants within the Genus Borago

borage
cool-tankard
talewort

Hierarchical position of the Genus Borago

   Regnum  Plantae
common name: The plant kingdom
  
   Divisio  Magnoliophyta Cronquist
syn. Angiospermophyta / Anthophyta
pub. Takht. & Zimmerm. ex Reveal, Phytologia 79: 70. 29 Apr 1996.
common name: angiosperms, flowering plants
  
   Subdivisio  Magnoliophytina Frohne & U. Jensen ex Reveal
pub. Phytologia 79: 70. 29 Apr 1996.
common name: Angiosperms
  
   Classis  Rosopsida Batsch
pub. Dispos. Gen. Pl. Jenens.: 28. 1788.
  
   Subclassis  Lamiidae Takht. ex Reveal
pub. Phytologia 74: 178. 25 Mar 1993.
  
   SuperOrdo  Solananae R. Dahlgren ex Reveal
pub. Novon 2: 236. 1992.
  
   Ordo  Solanales Dumort.
pub. Anal. Fam. Pl.: 20. 1829.
common name: Polemoniales
  
   Subordo  Boraginineae Engl.
pub. Syllabus, ed. 2: 192. Mai 1898.
  
   Familia  Boraginaceae Juss.
pub. Gen. Pl.: 128. 4 Aug 1789.
common name: Borages
  
   Subfamilia  Boraginoideae Arn.
pub. Encycl. Brit., ed. 7, 5: 122. 9 Mar 1832.
  
   Tribus  Boragineae Rchb.
pub. Fl. Germ. Excurs. 1(3): 340. Jul-Dec 1831.
  
   Subtribus  Boragininae G. Don
pub. Gen. Hist. 4: 307, 309. 1837-8 Apr 1838.
  
   Genus  Borago L.
pub. (1753)
common name: borage
  

Named members of the Genus Borago

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   Species  officinalis L.
common name: talewort, borage, cool-tankard
  

Individual specimen entries are published in the sample database supplied with The Compleat Botanica for species or varieties of this supra-generic taxon.

Additional information is available in the commercial version of The Compleat Botanica software for species with this symbol.

 

For a description of the methodology followed in establishing this hierarchy see the note Nomenclature used in The Compleat Botanica.

 

Last reviewed October 31, 2004   

 

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