Trichodesmeae

Indian borage Trichodesma indica, copyright J. M. Garg.

Belongs within: Cynoglosseae.

The Trichodesmeae are an Old World group of robust herbs or shrubs with very short corolla tubes and mostly spreading corolla lobes with long, exserted anthers.

<==Trichodesmeae
    |--Caccinia LC02
    |--Suchtelenia LC02
    `--Trichodesma Brown 1810 [incl. Pollichia Medicus 1783 (nom. rej.)] BR65
         |--T. angustifolium CV06
         |    |--T. a. ssp. angustifolium CV06
         |    `--T. a. ssp. argenteum CV06
         |--T. indica PP07
         |    |--T. i. var. indica PP07
         |    `--T. i. var. amplexicaule PP07
         |--T. scottii LC02
         `--T. zeylanicum [=Pollichia zeylanica; incl. T. zeylanicum var. sericeum] BR65
              |--T. z. var. zeylanicum BR65
              `--T. z. var. latisepalum 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.

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

[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.

[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.