Heliotropioideae Explained

Heliotropioideae was a subfamily of the flowering plant family Boraginaceae, comprising roughly 450 species. A 2016 revision of the Boraginales recognises it as a distinct family, Heliotropiaceae.^[1]

Genera

According to the 2016 revision, there are four genera:^[1]

• Euploca Nutt. (~100 species, almost cosmopolitan)
• Heliotropium L. (~325 species, almost cosmopolitan; incl. Tournefortia L.)
• Ixorhea Fenzl (1 species, Argentina)
• Myriopus Small (~25 species, Neotropics)

Notes and References

1. Luebert . F. . Cecchi . L. . Frohlich . M.W. . Gottschling . M. . Guilliams . C.M. . Hasenstab-Lehman . K.E. . Hilger . H.H. . Miller . J.S. . Mittelbach . M. . Nazaire . M. . Nepi . M. . Nocentini . D. . Ober. D. . Olmstead . R.G. . Selvi . F. . Simpson . M.G. . Sutorý . K. . Valdés . B. . Walden . G.K.. Weigend . M. . 3 . Familial classification of the Boraginales . Taxon . 65 . 3 . 2016 . 502–522 . 0040-0262 . 10.12705/653.5 . 16 June 2018. 2158/1062790 . free .