﻿ Classification
﻿ Subordinate Taxa
﻿ Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Lithospermum L., Sp. Pl. 132-133 (1753)
﻿ Description

Annual, biennial or perennial herbs, sometimes shrubs, hispid or with soft hairs.  Infl. short, strongly bracteate, cymose, often terminal. Calyx 5-lobed, sometimes divided to base, persistent.  Corolla cylindric, usually funnelform, rarely salverform;  tube > lobes, with 5 longitudinal folds;  lobes white, yellowish, blue or purple;  throat with bands of hairs or scales.  Stamens included.  Stigma capitate or 2-lobed. Nutlets smooth or tuberculate, shining, very hard.


﻿ Biostatus
Number of species in New Zealand within Lithospermum L.
Exotic: Fully Naturalised1
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