Actinocarya
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Boraginales
Family: Boraginaceae
Subfamily: Boraginoideae
Genus: Actinocarya
Benth.
Synonyms[1]
  • Glochidocaryum W.T.Wang
  • Metaeritrichium W.T.Wang

Actinocarya is a small genus of annual herbs in the family Boraginaceae. Species in the genus are found in Pakistan, China, and India.[1]

Taxonomy

The genus is known in China as 锚刺果属 (mao ci guo shu).[2] There are two species in the genus:[1]

  • Actinocarya acaulis (W.W.Sm.) I.M.Johnst.
  • Actinocarya tibetica C.B.Clarke

Description

The species are annual herbs. They have slender and diffuse stems which sparsely short strigose or subglabrous. Their leaves alternate and are ovate-oblong to spatulate. They have thin pedicels and solitary, axillary flowers. Their calyx is 5-parted, slightly enlarged in fruit, and spreading. Their corolla is rotate-campanulate and the stamens are inserted into its tube; they have five throat appendages and fives lobes of limb spreading. Their ovaries are 4-parted, style are not exserted, and stigmas are subcapitate. They have four nutlets which are narrowly ovoid with glochids.[2]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Actinocarya Benth. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 2021-01-05.
  2. 1 2 "Actinocarya in Flora of China @ efloras.org". www.efloras.org. Retrieved 2021-01-05.


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