''Actinocarya'' is a small genus of annual herbs in the family
Boraginaceae
Boraginaceae, the borage or forget-me-not family, includes about 2,000 species of shrubs, trees and herbs in 146, to 156 genera with a worldwide distribution.
The APG IV system from 2016 classifies the Boraginaceae as single family of the order ...
. Species in the genus are found in
Pakistan
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,
China
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, and
India
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.
Taxonomy
The genus is known in China as ιεΊζε± (mao ci guo shu).
There are two species in the genus:
* ''
Actinocarya acaulis''
(W.W.Sm.) I.M.Johnst.
* ''
Actinocarya tibetica''
C.B.Clarke
Description
The species are annual herbs. They have slender and diffuse stems which sparsely short strigose or subglabrous. Their leaves alternate and are ovate-oblong to spatulate. They have thin pedicels and solitary, axillary flowers. Their calyx is 5-parted, slightly enlarged in fruit, and spreading. Their corolla is rotate-campanulate and the stamens are inserted into its tube; they have five throat appendages and fives lobes of limb spreading. Their ovaries are 4-parted, style are not exserted, and stigmas are subcapitate. They have four nutlets which are narrowly ovoid with glochids.
References
Boraginoideae
Boraginaceae genera
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