Higher Classification: > Kingdom Plantae > Division Tracheophyta > Subdivision Spermatophytina > Class Magnoliopsida > Superorder Asteranae > Order Boraginales > Family Boraginaceae > Genus Echium

Echium plantagineum L.

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Echium*	L.	accepted genus name
*Isoplesion*	Raf.	synonym
*Larephes*	Raf.	synonym
*Megacaryon*	Boiss.	synonym

Species group names

*Echium maritimum*	Willd.	synonym
*Echium murale*	Hill	synonym; nom. inval.
*Echium plantaginoides*	Roem. & Schult.	synonym
*Echium sennenii*	Pau	synonym
*Echium lycopsis*	sensu MEIKLE, R. D. - Flora of Cyprus. Bentham Moxon Trust, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, 1977-1985. 1: [i]-xii, 1-832. 1977; 2: [i]-xii, [ii], 833-1969. 1985.	misapplied name
*Echium lycopsis*	sensu TÄCKHOLM, V. - Students' flora of Egypt (ed. 2). Cairo University, Beirut, 1974. [1]-888.	misapplied name
*Echium lycopsis*	sensu GUINOCHET, M. & R. DE VILMORIN - Flore de France. Centre national de la recherche scientifique, Paris, 1973-1984. 1: [1]-366. 1973; 2: [I]-XVI, [367]-818. 1975; 3: [819]-[1200]. 1978; 4: [1201]-[1596]. 1982; 5: [1597]-1879. 1984.	misapplied name
*Echium lycopsis*	sensu COSTE, H., P. JOVET & R. DE VILMORIN - Flore descriptive et illustrée de la France. Suppléments. Albert Blanchard, Paris, 1973-1979. 1: [1]-XI, [i], [1]-86. "1972" [1973]; 2: [87]-[174]. 1974; 3: [175]-[338]. 1975; 4: [339]-478. 1977; 5: [479]-[590]. 1979.	misapplied name
*Echium lycopsis*	sensu BRIQUET, J. - Prodrome de la flore corse. H. Georg, Genève, Bâle & Lyon, 1910-1913. 1: [I]-LVI, [ii], [1]-656. 1910 (oct.); 2/1: [I]-IV, [1]-409, [ii]. 1913 (juin).	misapplied name
*Echium lycopsis*	sensu FEDOROV, A. (ed.) - Flora evropejskoj casti SSSR. Nauka, Leningrad, 1974-... 1: [1]-[404]. 1974; 2: [1]-[236]. 1976; 3: [1]-[258]. 1978; 4: [1]-255. 1979; 5: [1]-[379]. 1981; 6: [1]-[255]. 1987-...	misapplied name
*Echium violaceum*	auct. azor.	misapplied name

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Galician: borraxa brava; soaxe sources: Anthos (2010). Information System of the plants of Spain. Real Jardín Botánico, CSIC - Fundación Biodiversidad. (for names from the Iberian Peninsula and the Balearic Islands).

Majorcan: bolenga sources: Anthos (2010). Information System of the plants of Spain. Real Jardín Botánico, CSIC - Fundación Biodiversidad. (for names from the Iberian Peninsula and the Balearic Islands).

Portuguese: marcavalas; soagem sources: Anthos (2010). Information System of the plants of Spain. Real Jardín Botánico, CSIC - Fundación Biodiversidad. (for names from the Iberian Peninsula and the Balearic Islands).

Spanish, Castillian: argamula; arguimula; avellanas; bovina peluda; chupamiel de viñas; chupamieles; equio de hojas de llantén; hoja de mula; lenguas; lenguazas; lichariega; oreja de mula; polomina de Canarias; sonaja; tortalsol; viborillo; violetilla; vivorera; vivorillo sources: Anthos (2010). Information System of the plants of Spain. Real Jardín Botánico, CSIC - Fundación Biodiversidad. (for names from the Iberian Peninsula and the Balearic Islands).

Valencian: borraches bordes

Literature

nomenclatural reference	L., Mant. Pl. 1771.

Genbank

Citation

Valdés, B. (2011): Boraginaceae. – In: Euro+Med Plantbase - the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity. Echium plantagineum L.. Accessed through: Euro+Med PlantBase at http://ww2.bgbm.org/euroPlusMed/PTaxonDetail.asp?UUID=C2D26C13-B4DF-4776-8728-9E008962CC99