Actinocarya

Life-forms

Classification System: APG IV

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Cladus: Angiosperms
Cladus: Eudicots
Cladus: Core eudicots
Cladus: Asterids
Cladus: Lamiids
Ordo: Boraginales

Familia: Boraginaceae
Subfamilia: Cynoglossoideae
Tribus: Cynoglosseae
Subtribus: Microulinae
Genus: Actinocarya
Species: A. acaulis – A. tibetica
Name

Actinocarya Benth., Gen. Pl. 2: 846 (1876)
Note: Likely a synonym of Microula, but formal transfers of these species has not been made.
References
Links

Hassler, M. 2020. Actinocarya. World Plants: Synonymic Checklists of the Vascular Plants of the World In: Roskovh, Y., Abucay, L., Orrell, T., Nicolson, D., Bailly, N., Kirk, P., Bourgoin, T., DeWalt, R.E., Decock, W., De Wever, A., Nieukerken, E. van, Zarucchi, J. & Penev, L., eds. 2020. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life. Published online. Accessed: 2020 March 4. Reference page.
Govaerts, R. et al. 2020. Actinocarya in Kew Science Plants of the World Online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2020 March 4. Reference page.
International Plant Names Index. 2020. Actinocarya. Published online. Accessed: 4 March 2020. Reference page.
Tropicos.org 2022. Actinocarya. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 5 May 2022. Reference page.

Actinocarya is a small genus of annual herbs in the family Boraginaceae. Species in the genus are found in Pakistan, China, and India.[1]
Taxonomy

The genus is known in China as 锚刺果属 (mao ci guo shu).[2] There are two species in the genus:[1]

Actinocarya acaulis (W.W.Sm.) I.M.Johnst.
Actinocarya tibetica C.B.Clarke

Description

The species are annual herbs. They have slender and diffuse stems which sparsely short strigose or subglabrous. Their leaves alternate and are ovate-oblong to spatulate. They have thin pedicels and solitary, axillary flowers. Their calyx is 5-parted, slightly enlarged in fruit, and spreading. Their corolla is rotate-campanulate and the stamens are inserted into its tube; they have five throat appendages and fives lobes of limb spreading. Their ovaries are 4-parted, style are not exserted, and stigmas are subcapitate. They have four nutlets which are narrowly ovoid with glochids.[2]
References

"Actinocarya Benth. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 2021-01-05.
"Actinocarya in Flora of China @ efloras.org". www.efloras.org. Retrieved 2021-01-05.