Heliotropioideae

Garden heliotrope Heliotropium arborescens, copyright Aleksandrs Balodis.

Belongs within: Boraginaceae.

The Heliotropioideae are a group of flowering plants in which the flowers have a terminal style with a conical stigmatic head having a basal ring-shaped stigma and sterile apex.

<==Heliotropioideae [Heliotropiaceae]
    |--Ixorhea T00
    |--Nogalia T00
    `--Heliotropium LC02
         |--H. aenigmatum LK14
         |--H. albiflorum CV06
         |--H. ammophilum KM08
         |--H. amplexicaule Vahl. 1794 (see below for synonymy) BR65
         |--H. apertum LK14
         |--H. arborescens OA02 [incl. H. peruvianum BR65]
         |--H. asperrimum BR65
         |--H. brachythrix LK14
         |--H. conocarpum LK14
         |--H. convolvulaceum H93
         |    |--H. c. var. convolvulaceum H93
         |    `--H. c. var. californicum H93
         |--H. cunninghamii LK14
         |--H. curassavicum [incl. H. curassavicum var. oculatum] H93
         |--H. dichotomum LK14
         |--H. discorde LK14
         |--H. europaeum BR65
         |--H. filaginoides BR65
         |--H. foliatum LK14
         |--H. galioides LK14
         |--H. glabellum LK14
         |--H. heteranthum [=H. filaginoides var. heteranthum] BR65
         |--H. indicum P03 [=Heliophytum indicum C55b]
         |--H. lasiocarpum LC02 [=H. europaeum var. lasiocarpum PP07]
         |--H. leptaleum LK14
         |--H. marifolium PP07
         |    |--H. m. var. marifolium PP07
         |    `--H. m. var. wallichii PP07
         |--H. messerschmidioides LC02
         |--H. microsalsoloides LK14
         |--H. muelleri LK14
         |--H. nesopelydum LK14
         |--H. ovalifolium BR65
         |--H. paniculatum LK14
         |--H. peckhamii LK14
         |--H. protensum LK14
         |--H. ramosissimum C55a
         |--H. ramulipatens LK14
         |--H. rariflorum PP07
         |--H. strigosum PP07
         |    |--H. s. ssp. strigosum PP07
         |    `--H. s. ssp. brevifolium PP07
         |--H. subulatum PP07
         |--H. supinum BR65
         |--H. tenuifolium BR65
         |--H. undulatum BR65
         |--H. ventricosum LK14
         `--H. zeylanicum PP07

Heliotropium amplexicaule Vahl. 1794 [incl. H. anchusifolium Poiret 1813, Cochranea anchusifolia, Tournefortia heliotropioides] BR65

*Type species of generic name indicated

REFERENCES

[BR65] Black, J. M., & E. L. Robertson. 1965. Flora of South Australia. Part IV. Oleaceae–Compositae. W. L. Hawes, Government Printer: Adelaide.

[C55a] Candolle, A. de. 1855a. Géographie Botanique Raisonée: Ou exposition des faits principaux et des lois concernant la distribution géographique des plantes de l’époque actuelle vol. 1. Librairie de Victor Masson: Paris.

[C55b] Candolle, A. de. 1855b. Géographie Botanique Raisonée: Ou exposition des faits principaux et des lois concernant la distribution géographique des plantes de l’époque actuelle vol. 2. Librairie de Victor Masson: Paris.

[CV06] Craven, P., & P. Vorster. 2006. Patterns of plant diversity and endemism in Namibia. Bothalia 36 (2): 175–189.

[H93] Hickman, J. C. (ed.) 1993. The Jepson Manual: Higher Plants of California. University of California Press: Berkeley (California).

[KM08] Keighery, G. J., & W. Muir. 2008. Vegetation and vascular flora of Faure Island, Shark Bay, Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum Supplement 75: 11–19.

[LC02] Långström, E., & M. W. Chase. 2002. Tribes of Boraginoideae (Boraginaceae) and placement of Antiphytum, Echiochilon, Ogastemma and Sericostoma: a phylogenetic analysis based on atpB plastid DNA sequence data. Plant Systematics and Evolution 234: 137–153.

[LK14] Lyons, M. N., G. J. Keighery, L. A. Gibson & T. Handasyde. 2014. Flora and vegetation communities of selected islands off the Kimberley coast of Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum Supplement 81: 205–244.

[OA02] Ochoa, J. A., & L. E. Acosta. 2002. Orobothriurus atiquipa, a new bothriurid species (Scorpiones) from Lomas in southern Peru. Journal of Arachnology 30: 98–103.

[P03] Paul, T. K. 2003. Botanical observations on the Purulia pumped storage hydropower project area, Bagmundi Hills, Purulia district, West Bengal. Bulletin of the Botanical Survey of India 45: 121–142.

[PP07] Pandey, R. P., & P. M. Padhye. 2007. Studies on phytodiversity of Arid Machia Safari Park-Kailana in Jodhpur (Rajasthan). Bulletin of the Botanical Survey of India 49: 15–78.

[T00] Thorne, R. F. 2000. The classification and geography of the flowering plants: dicotyledons of the class Angiospermae (subclasses Magnoliidae, Ranunculidae, Caryophyllidae, Dilleniidae, Rosidae, Asteridae, and Lamiidae). The Botanical Review 66: 441–647.