Heliotropium crispum is a species of flowering plant in the family Boraginaceae, native to western Africa (including the Canary Islands), Egypt, Sudan, south-western Asia, and Pakistan. It was first described by René Louiche Desfontaines.[1]
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Boraginales |
| Family: | Boraginaceae |
| Genus: | Heliotropium |
| Species: | H. crispum
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| Binomial name | |
| Heliotropium crispum Desf.[1]
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Description
editHeliotropium crispum is a very variable annual or perennial herbaceous plant. It has greyish leaves and dense cymes of small white flowers.[2]
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Flowers
Distribution and habitat
editHeliotropium crispum is native to western Africa,[3] from the Canary Islands, Mauritania and Senegal to Nigeria, Egypt and Sudan, and to Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan and Pakistan.[1] In the Canary Islands, it is found on dry (leeward) southern or western slopes of all the islands.[2]
References
edit- ^ a b c d "Heliotropium crispum Desf.", Plants of the World Online, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, retrieved 2018-02-01
- ^ a b Bramwell, David & Bramwell, Zoë (2001), Wild Flowers of the Canary Islands (2nd ed.), Madrid: Editorial Rueda, p. 278, ISBN 84-7207-129-4 (as Heliotropium bacciferum)
- ^ Plant Resources of Tropical Africa
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