Heliotropium foertherianum Diane & Hilger GRIN-Global

Summary

Genus:

Heliotropium

Family:

Heliotropiaceae

Nomen number:

464802

Place of publication:

Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 125:46. 2003

Comment:

a replacement name for Tournefortia argentea L. f., non Heliotropium argenteum Lehm.

Verified:

03/31/2012 ARS Systematic Botanists.

Accessions:

0 (0 active, 0 available) in National Plant Germplasm System.

Other conspecific taxa

Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations

Homotypic Synonym(s)

Argusia argentea (L. f.) Heine
Messerschmidia argentea (L. f.) I. M. Johnst.
Tournefortia argentea L. f.

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Reference(s)

Craven, L. A. 2005. Malesian and Australian Tournefortia transferred to Heliotropium and notes on delimitation of Boraginaceae. Blumea 50:379. DOI: 10.3767/000651905X623049.
Hilger, H. H. & N. Diane. 2003. A systematic analysis of Heliotropiaceae (Boraginales) based on trnL and ITS1 sequence data. Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 125:19-51.

Common names

English
tree-heliotrope –
Transcribed Chinese
yin mao shu –

Distribution

order_code	Status	Continent	Subcontinent	Country	State	Note
1	Native	Africa	East Tropical Africa	Kenya		s.e.
1	Native	Africa	East Tropical Africa	Tanzania	Zanzibar
1	Native	Africa	South Tropical Africa	Mozambique		e.
1	Native	Africa	Western Indian Ocean	Madagascar
1	Native	Asia-Temperate	China	China	Hainan Sheng
1	Native	Asia-Temperate	Eastern Asia	Japan	Ryukyu Islands
1	Native	Asia-Temperate	Eastern Asia	Taiwan
1	Native	Asia-Tropical	Indian Subcontinent	India		s.
1	Native	Asia-Tropical	Indian Subcontinent	Sri Lanka
1	Native	Asia-Tropical	Indo-China	Vietnam
1	Native	Asia-Tropical	Malesia	Indonesia
1	Native	Asia-Tropical	Malesia	Malaysia
1	Native	Asia-Tropical	Malesia	Philippines
1	Native	Asia-Tropical	Papuasia	Papua New Guinea
1	Native	Australasia	Australia	Australia	Northern Territory	n.
1	Native	Australasia	Australia	Australia	Queensland	n.
1	Native	Pacific	Northwestern Pacific	Marshall Islands
1	Native	Pacific	Northwestern Pacific	Micronesia
1	Native	Pacific	Northwestern Pacific	United States	Northern Mariana Islands
1	Native	Pacific	South-Central Pacific	Cook Islands
1	Native	Pacific	South-Central Pacific	French Polynesia
1	Native	Pacific	Southwestern Pacific	Fiji
1	Native	Pacific	Southwestern Pacific	New Caledonia
1	Native	Pacific	Southwestern Pacific	Niue
1	Native	Pacific	Southwestern Pacific	Samoa
1	Native	Pacific	Southwestern Pacific	Tonga
4	Naturalized	Pacific	North-Central Pacific	United States	Hawaii

Native
Africa

Asia-Temperate

Asia-Tropical

Australasia

Pacific

NORTHWESTERN PACIFIC: Micronesia, Marshall Islands, United States [Northern Mariana Islands]
SOUTH-CENTRAL PACIFIC: Cook Islands, French Polynesia
SOUTHWESTERN PACIFIC: Fiji, New Caledonia, Niue, Tonga, Samoa

Naturalized
Pacific