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Heliotropium indicum - Inflorescence - Click to enlarge!

Inflorescence; Simpang Empat, West Sumatra, Indonesia; 4/1999 © Jörn Germer

Heliotropium indicum - Flowers - Click to enlarge!

Flowers; Petrolândia Pernambuco, Brazil; 3/2013 © Jörn Germer

Heliotropium indicum - Inflorescence - Click to enlarge!

Inflorescence; Petrolândia Pernambuco, Brazil; 3/2013 © Jörn Germer

Heliotropium indicum - Habit - Click to enlarge!

Habit; Naban River Watershed National Nature Reserve, Xishuangbanna, Yunnan, P.R. China; 9/2009 © Jingxin Liu

Heliotropium indicum - Upper and lower surface of leaf - Click to enlarge!

Upper and lower surface of leaf; Petrolândia Pernambuco, Brazil; 3/2013 © Jörn Germer

Heliotropium indicum - Habit - Click to enlarge!

Habit; Simpang Empat, West Sumatra, Indonesia; 4/1999 © Jörn Germer

Heliotropium indicum - Habit - Click to enlarge!

Habit; Petrolândia Pernambuco, Brazil; 3/2013 © Jörn Germer

Dataset

Identifier: 233
Date of entry: 28.12.2005
Last update: 11.01.2020

Common name

English: Indian Heliotrope

German: Indische Sonnenwende

Mandarin: 大尾摇 (da wei yao)

Classification

Kingdom: Plantae (2715)

  Phylum: Tracheophyta (2630)

    Class: Magnoliopsida (2217)

      Order: Lamiales (199)

        Family: Boraginaceae (38)(family description)

          Genus: Heliotropium (3)

            Epithet: indicum L. (3)

Synonym: Tiaridium indicum (L.) Lehm.

indicum => of Indian origin

Characteristics

Climate: tropical

Habitat: mesophytic

Habit: shrub

Flower colour: purple, violet, white

External links

Check for Heliotropium indicum at

World Flora Online, GBIF or IPNI

Literature

  • [40] Nelson,L.S., Shih,R., Balick,M. (2007): Handbook of Poisonous and Injurious Plants. 2nd edition, 0(0):Springer-Verlag GmbH.

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