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Greeneocharis
Sign in to saveGreeneocharis is a genus of flowering plants in the family Boraginaceae. There are two species, and it has a disjunct distribution in the western United States and northwestern Mexico in North America and western Argentina in southern South America. It is part of subtribe of Amsinckiinae.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassMagnoliopsida
- OrderBoraginales
- FamilyBoraginaceae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 14
- With media
- 18
- Family
- Boraginaceae
- Collections
- SBBG, SDSU, BRIT
- Recorded in
- United States
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Encyclopedic overview
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Greeneocharis is a genus of flowering plants in the family Boraginaceae. There are two species, and it has a disjunct distribution in the western United States and northwestern Mexico in North America and western Argentina in southern South America. It is part of subtribe of Amsinckiinae.
It was once thought to be a either a subgenus or synonym of Cryptantha , before being segregated out due to molecular phylogenetic analysis.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Greeneocharis” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.