Coldenia Explained

Coldenia, named after C. Colden, is a monotypic genus of flowering plants traditionally included in the borage family, Boraginaceae sensu lato.^[1] It was assigned to the subfamily Ehretioideae, but molecular data revealed it to be more closely related to the genus Cordia, so that other authors placed in Cordioideae.^[2] Subsequently, it was placed in its own family, Coldeniaceae, within the Boraginales order, by the Boraginales Working Group.

The sole species is Coldenia procumbens.

Bibliography

• Luebert . Federico . Cecchi . Lorenzo . Frohlich . Michael W. . Gottschling . Marc . Guilliams . C. Matt . Hasenstab-Lehman . Kristen E. . Hilger . Hartmut H. . Miller . James S. . Mittelbach . Moritz . Nazaire . Mare . Nepi . Massimo . Nocentini . Daniele . Ober . Dietrich . Olmstead . Richard G. . Selvi . Federico . Simpson . Michael G. . Sutorý . Karel . Valdés . Benito . Walden . Genevieve K. . Weigend . Maximilian . Boraginales Working Group: Familial classification of the Boraginales. . 24 June 2016 . 65 . 3 . 502–522 . 10.12705/653.5. . 2158/1062790 . free .

Notes and References

1. http://eol.org/pages/2516271/overview Encyclopedia of Life: Coldenia
2. Gottschling . Marc . Miller . James S. . Weigend . Maximilian . Hilger . Hartmut H. . Congruence of a Phylogeny of Cordiaceae (Boraginales) Inferred from ITS1 Sequence Data with Morphology, Ecology, and Biogeography . Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden . 92 . 3 . 2005 . 425–437 . 40035480.