Craniospermum is a genus of flowering plants in the family Boraginaceae, native to Kazakhstan, the Altai, Siberia (Buryatiya, Irkutsk, Tuva), Mongolia, and Xinjiang and Inner Mongolia in China.[2] They are tuft-forming biennial or perennial herbs, and are generally highly endemic, thought to be relicts of the hypothesized ancient Mediterranean flora.[3][4]
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Boraginales |
| Family: | Boraginaceae |
| Subfamily: | Cynoglossoideae |
| Tribe: | Craniospermeae |
| Genus: | Craniospermum Lehm.[1] |
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Diploloma Schrenk | |
Species
editCurrently accepted species include:[2]
- Craniospermum canescens DC.
- Craniospermum desertorum Ovczinnikova & A.Korolyuk
- Craniospermum mongolicum I.M.Johnst.
- Craniospermum pseudotuvinicum Ovczinnikova & A.Korolyuk
- Craniospermum subfloccosum Krylov
- Craniospermum subvillosum Lehm.
- Craniospermum tuvinicum Ovczinnikova
References
edit- ^ Pl. Asperif. Nucif.: 336 (1818)
- ^ a b c "Craniospermum Lehm". Plants of the World Online. Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 2017. Retrieved 8 September 2020.
- ^ Kadereit, Joachim W.; Bittrich, Volker (9 April 2016). Flowering Plants. Eudicots: Aquifoliales, Boraginales, Bruniales, Dipsacales, Escalloniales, Garryales, Paracryphiales, Solanales (Except Convolvulaceae), Icacinaceae, Metteniusaceae, Vahliaceae. Springer. p. 97. ISBN 9783319285344.
- ^ Ovchinnikova, Svetlana (2019). "Ecological features and new location of the rare relict species Craniospermum pseudotuvinicum (Boraginaceae)". Bio Web of Conferences. 16: 00024. doi:10.1051/bioconf/20191600024.