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Echium
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Echium is a genus of plants within the family Boraginaceae. It belongs to the order Boraginales and the class Magnoliopsida. Common names for this taxon include viper's bugloss and gul-i-gaozaban. The genus produces fruit in the form of nuts.
Species of Echium are native to a wide range of locations, including Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Austria, the Azores, the Canary Islands, and the Baltic States. The Encyclopedia of Life describes the genus as consisting of herbaceous or subshrub plants with approximately 40 species distributed across the Mediterranean region and Europe.
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Species
viper's-bugloss
GENUS
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassMagnoliopsida
- OrderBoraginales
- FamilyBoraginaceae
篮蓟属（学名：Echium），或稱藍薊屬，是紫草科下的一个属，为草本或亚灌木植物。该属共有约40种，分布于地中海区和欧洲。
via GBIF · Kew POWO
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 824
- With media
- 579
- Family
- Boraginaceae
- Collections
- UCSC, RSA, UCSB, MEL, CAS, ANSP
- Recorded in
- United States, Algeria, South Africa, Spain, France, Tunisia, Lebanon, Israel
Research
392 papers- Genus Echium L.: Phytochemical Characterization and Bioactivity Evaluation for Drug Discovery.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025
- Comparative analysis of the main medicinal substances and applications of Echium vulgare L. and Echium plantagineum L.: A review.Journal of ethnopharmacology · 2022
- A Close Look at Echium amoenum Processing, Neuroactive Components, and Effects on Neuropsychiatric Disorders.Galen medical journal · 2019
- Antioxidant Properties and Reported Ethnomedicinal Use of the Genus Echium (Boraginaceae).Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020
- Echium amoenum and Rosmarinic Acid Suppress the Growth and Metastasis of Gastric Cancer AGS Cells by Promoting Apoptosis and Inhibiting EMT.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Boraginaceae
- Image
- Natternkopf oe.jpg
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- Echium
- taxon name
- Echium
- taxon rank
- genus
- topic's main category
- Category:Echium
- Commons gallery
- Echium
- described by source
- Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary
- taxon common name
- tajinaste
- has fruit type
- nut
Sources (3)
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Encyclopedic overview
7 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- Cultivation and uses
- ''Echium'' seed oil
- Invasiveness
- Species
- Formerly placed here
- References
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Echium is a genus of flowering plants in the family Boraginaceae that contains about 70 species and several subspecies.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Echium” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.