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The ultimate types ofAnchusa L. and Lycopsis L. (Boraginaceae)

Federico Selvi, +2 more
- 01 May 1996 - 
- Vol. 45, Iss: 2, pp 305-307
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TLDR
The tribe Boragineae Bercht was regarded by Johnston (1924) as a natural group of the Boraginaceae, consisting of closely related genera showing reticulate variation of several significant characters, but one of the taxonomic problems concerns the delimitation of two Linnaean genera, Anchusa and Lycopsis.
Abstract
The tribe Boragineae Bercht. & J. Presl was regarded by Johnston (1924) as a natural group of the Boraginaceae, consisting of closely related genera showing reticulate variation of several significant characters (see also Smith, 1932). Past taxonomic treatments largely depended upon the relevance attributed by different authors to such characters. One of the taxonomic problems concerns the delimitation of two Linnaean genera, Anchusa and Lycopsis, which in the past had mostly been separated by the flower zygomorphy typical of Lycopsis. Despite general agreement on the species names that provide the types of these two generic names, neither species name appears to have yet been typified.

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Anchusa L. and allied genera (Boraginaceae) in Italy

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Revision of genus Anchusa (Boraginaceae-Boragineae) in Greece

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Geographic differentiation of morphological traits and isozymes in the Mediterranean island endemic Anchusa crispa: implications for the conservation of a protected species

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Anchusella, a new genus of boraginaceae from the central-eastern mediterranean

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