''Rochelia'' is a genus of

flowering plant Flowering plants are plants that bear flowers and fruits, and form the clade Angiospermae (), commonly called angiosperms. The term "angiosperm" is derived from the Greek words ('container, vessel') and ('seed'), and refers to those plants th ...

s belonging to 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 ...

. It is also in subtribe ''Eritrichiinae''. Its wide native range extends from Europe (within Albania, Austria, Baltic States, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Central European Russia, Corsica, Crimean Peninsula, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, East European Russia, the Faroe Islands, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, North European Russia, Norway, Poland, Romania, South European Russis, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine and Yugoslavia) to Asia (in Altai, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, North Caucasus, Tajikistan, Transcaucasus, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Tuva, Uzbekistan and Western

Himalaya The Himalayas, or Himalaya (; ; ), is a mountain range in Asia, separating the plains of the Indian subcontinent from the Tibetan Plateau. The range has some of the planet's highest peaks, including the very highest, Mount Everest. Over 100 ...

Tibet Tibet (; ''Böd''; ) is a region in East Asia, covering much of the Tibetan Plateau and spanning about . It is the traditional homeland of the Tibetan people. Also resident on the plateau are some other ethnic groups such as Monpa people, ...

and

Xinjiang Xinjiang, SASM/GNC: ''Xinjang''; zh, c=, p=Xīnjiāng; formerly romanized as Sinkiang (, ), officially the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (XUAR), is an autonomous region of the People's Republic of China (PRC), located in the northwest ...

, (in China), north-western Africa (in Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia) and Western Asia (Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Syria, Oman, Pakistan and Palestine). The genus name of ''Rochelia'' is in honour of

Anton Rochel Anton Rochel (18 June 1770, in Neunkirchen – 12 May 1847, in Graz) was an Austrian surgeon and naturalist, known for his botanical investigations of Banat and the Carpathians. Up until 1798 he served as a surgeon in the Austrian army, then f ...

(1770–1847), an Austrian surgeon and naturalist, known for his botanical investigations of

Banat Banat (, ; hu, Bánság; sr, Банат, Banat) is a geographical and historical region that straddles Central and Eastern Europe and which is currently divided among three countries: the eastern part lies in western Romania (the counties of T ...

and the

Carpathians The Carpathian Mountains or Carpathians () are a range of mountains forming an arc across Central Europe. Roughly long, it is the third-longest European mountain range after the Ural Mountains, Urals at and the Scandinavian Mountains at . The ...

(Mountains). It was first described and published in Flora Vol.7 on page 243 in 1824. The genus is recognized by the

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and the

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and was last updated on 31 July 2018, but they only list 2 species; ''Rochelia disperma'' and ''Rochelia stylaris'' It was found by DNA analysis, that ''Rochelia'' is not

monophyletic In cladistics for a group of organisms, monophyly is the condition of being a clade—that is, a group of taxa composed only of a common ancestor (or more precisely an ancestral population) and all of its lineal descendants. Monophyletic gro ...

but

paraphyletic In taxonomy (general), taxonomy, a group is paraphyletic if it consists of the group's most recent common ancestor, last common ancestor and most of its descendants, excluding a few Monophyly, monophyletic subgroups. The group is said to be pa ...

(has more than one common ancestor).

Known species

According to Kew: *'' Rochelia bungei'' *'' Rochelia campanulata'' *'' Rochelia cancellata'' *''

Rochelia cardiosepala ''Rochelia'' is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Boraginaceae. It is also in subtribe ''Eritrichiinae''. Its wide native range extends from Europe (within Albania, Austria, Baltic States, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Central Eur ...

'' *'' Rochelia chitralensis'' *'' Rochelia claviculata'' *'' Rochelia disperma'' *'' Rochelia drobovii'' *'' Rochelia jackabaghii'' *'' Rochelia laxa'' *'' Rochelia leiocarpa'' *'' Rochelia leiosperma'' *'' Rochelia mirheydari'' *'' Rochelia pamirica'' *'' Rochelia peduncularis'' *'' Rochelia persica'' *''

Rochelia pygmaea ''Rochelia'' is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Boraginaceae. It is also in subtribe ''Eritrichiinae''. Its wide native range extends from Europe (within Albania, Austria, Baltic States, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Central Eur ...

'' *''

Rochelia rectipes ''Rochelia'' is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Boraginaceae. It is also in subtribe ''Eritrichiinae''. Its wide native range extends from Europe (within Albania, Austria, Baltic States, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Central Eur ...

'' *'' Rochelia retorta'' *'' Rochelia retrosepala'' *'' Rochelia sessiliflora'' *'' Rochelia stylaris''

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q9070100 Boraginoideae Boraginaceae genera Plants described in 1824