Common Name: BORAGE FAMILY Habit: Annual, perennial herb, or shrub, often bristly or sharp-hairy. Stem: prostrate-decumbent to erect. Leaf: basal and/or cauline, simple, generally alternate, sometimes opposite, especially at base. Inflorescence: cymes, arranged singly or in groups of 2--5, generally coiled in flower, generally elongating in fruit. Flower: bisexual, generally radial; sepals 5, free or fused at least at base; corolla 5-lobed, salverform, funnel-shaped, rotate, or bell-shaped, appendages (often called "fornices") 0 or 5 at top of tube, when present often differentially pigmented, alternate stamens; stamens epipetalous; ovary superior, 4-lobed, style 1, entire or minutely 2-lobed (2-branched). Fruit: nutlets 1--4, when > 1, all similar (often called "homomorphic") or 1 or 2 dissimilar in size and/or shape from the others (often called "heteromorphic"), free (fused), smooth to roughened, prickly or bristly or not. Genera In Family: +- 90 genera, +- 1600--1700 species: mostly temperate, especially western North America, Mediterranean; some cultivated (Borago, Echium, Myosotis, Symphytum). Toxicity: Many genera may be TOXIC from pyrrolizidine alkaloids or accumulated nitrates. Note: Sometimes still treated in broader sense of TJM2 (e.g., APG IV 2016 Bot J Linn Soc 181:1--20), but recent evidence (Luebert et al. 2016) supports segregation, for our flora, of the families Ehretiaceae, Heliotropiaceae, Hydrophyllaceae, Lennoaceae, and Namaceae. eFlora Treatment Author: Michael G. Simpson, C. Matt Guilliams, Kristen Hasenstab-Lehman & Ronald B. Kelley Scientific Editor: Bruce G. Baldwin, C. Matt Guilliams, Kristen Hasenstab-Lehman, David J. Keil, Ronald B. Kelley, Robert W. Patterson, Thomas J. Rosatti & Michael G. Simpson
Habit: Annual herb, cushion-like, roots, plant bases red-purple or not. Stem: branches ascending to erect, slender, generally strigose. Leaf: sessile, alternate, congested at branch tips, linear, oblanceolate, or narrowly oblong, hairy. Inflorescence: spike-like cymes; flower bracts present. Flower: calyx lobes fused at base, tube circumscissile in fruit; corolla limb 1--6 mm diam, white, appendages present. Fruit: pedicel 0--0.5 mm in fruit; fruit axis +- 1/2--1× nutlet length; nutlets (2)3 or 4, generally similar (dissimilar), smooth to roughened, ridge 0; margin rounded; attachment scar abutted near apex, forked and gapped at base; style extended to or just below nutlet tips. Etymology: (Greek: Greene's delight, for Edward L. Greene, California botanist, 1843--1915) Note:Greeneocharis is a segregate of Cryptantha, strongly supported as a separate lineage by molecular phylogenetic studies. eFlora Treatment Author: Ronald B. Kelley, Kristen Hasenstab-Lehman, & Michael G. Simpson Reference: Johnston 1925 Contr Gray Herbarium 74:1--125; Mathew & Raven 1962 Madroño 16:168--171; Simpson & Hasenstab 2009 Crossosoma 35:1--59; Hasenstab-Lehman & Simpson 2012 Syst Bot 37: 738--757; Simpson et al. 2017 Taxon 66:1406--1420
Greeneocharis similis (K. Mathew & P.H. Raven) Hasenstab & M.G. Simpson
NATIVE Habit: Annual, ascending to spreading, 3--12 cm diam, cushion-like; root, plant base generally red-purple. Stem: 0.5--10 cm, branches few--many, throughout, slender; coarse-strigose, hairs generally ascending. Leaf: +- crowded at ends of branches; 0.3--1 cm, linear to oblanceolate, margin rolled-under, rough-hairy, hairs +- ascending to appressed. Inflorescence: in 1s to 3s, in axils or branch forks, 1--5-flowered, dense in fruit; bracts throughout; pedicel < 0.5 mm, erect. Flower: calyx 1.5--2 mm, 2.5--3 mm in fruit, circumscissile below middle in fruit, +- remaining green, lower tube persistent, scarious in age, cup-like in fruit, hairs +- like leaves; corolla limb 3.5--6 mm diam, appendages conspicuous, yellow. Fruit: nutlets (2)3 or 4, 1.2--1.5 mm, triangular-ovate, brown, papillate or smooth, shiny, margin sharp-angled, base truncate, tip acute; abaxially low-rounded, ridge 0; adaxially rounded, attachment scar edges +- abutted, forked at base; axis generally to nutlet tips. Chromosomes: 2n=12. Ecology: Gravelly to coarse sandy soils, Joshua-tree woodland, occasionally pinyon/juniper woodland; Elevation: 700--1870 m. Bioregional Distribution: n SnGb, nw SnBr, se PR, s DMoj. Flowering Time: Mar--May Synonyms: Cryptantha similis K. Mathew & P.H. Raven Jepson eFlora Author: Ronald B. Kelley, Kristen Hasenstab-Lehman, & Michael G. Simpson Reference: Johnston 1925 Contr Gray Herbarium 74:1--125; Mathew & Raven 1962 Madroño 16:168--171; Simpson & Hasenstab 2009 Crossosoma 35:1--59; Hasenstab-Lehman & Simpson 2012 Syst Bot 37: 738--757; Simpson et al. 2017 Taxon 66:1406--1420 Index of California Plant Names (ICPN; linked via the Jepson Online Interchange) Previous taxon: Greeneocharis circumscissa var. rosulata Next taxon: Gruvelia
Citation for this treatment: Ronald B. Kelley, Kristen Hasenstab-Lehman, & Michael G. Simpson 2021, Greeneocharis similis, in Jepson Flora Project (eds.) Jepson eFlora, Revision 9, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/eflora_display.php?tid=99295, accessed on October 04, 2024.
Citation for the whole project: Jepson Flora Project (eds.) 2024, Jepson eFlora, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/, accessed on October 04, 2024.
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