Moltkia

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: Boraginoideae
Tribus: Lithospermeae
Genus: Moltkia
Species: M. angustifolia – M. aurea – M. coerulea – M. gypsacea – M. petraea – M. suffruticosa

Nothospecies: M. × kemalpaschii
Name

Moltkia Lehm., Neue Schriften Naturf. Ges. Halle 3(2): 3. 1817.
Synonyms

Heterotypic
Gymnoleima Decne. in V.Jacquemont, Voy. Inde 4: 122. 1843.

References
Primary references

Lehmann, J.G.C., 1817. Neue Schriften der naturforschenden Gesellschaft zu Halle 3(2): 3.
Additional references

Riedl, H.U. 1967. Moltkia. Pp. 147–148 in Riedl, H.U., Boraginaceae. In: Rechinger, K.H. (ed.) Flora Iranica. Vol. 48. 281 pp., Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt Graz. Reference page.
Fernandes, R.M.S.B. 1972. Moltkia. Pp. 95 in Tutin, T.G., Heywood, V.H., Burges, N.A., Moore, D.M., Valentine, D.H., Walters, S.M. & Webb, D.A. (eds.), Flora Europaea. Volume 3: Diapensiaceae to Myoporaceae. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (UK), xxix + 370 pp., ISBN 0-521-08489-X. Reference page.
Riedl, H.U. 1978. Moltkia. Pp. 324–326 in Davis, P.H. (ed.), Flora of Turkey and the East Aegean Islands. Vol. 6 (Campanulaceae to Scrophulariaceae). Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 825 pp., ISBN 0-85224-336-7. Reference page.
Greuter, W., Burdet, H.M. & Long, G. (eds.) 1984. Med-Checklist. A critical inventory of vascular plants of the circum-mediterranean countries. Vol. 1: Pteridophyta (ed. 2), Gymnospermae, Dicotyledones (Acanthaceae – Cneoraceae). c + 330 pp., Conservatoire et Jardin Botaniques, Genève 1984. ISBN 2-8277-0151-0. Online version. Reference page.
Mosyakin, S.L. & Fedoronchuk, M.M. 1999. Vascular plants of Ukraine. A nomenclatural checklist. xxiii + 345 pp., M. G. Kholodny Institute of Botany, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kiev. ISBN 966-02-1336-0 Reference page.
Nikolić, T. 2000. Flora Croatica. Index florae Croaticae, Pars 3. Natura Croatica 9, Suppl. 1: 1–324. Reference page.
Tamanian, K.G. 2011. Конспект семейства Boraginaceae в Армении. Checklist of Boraginaceae Juss. family in Armenia. Takhtajania 1: 60–69. PDF Reference page.
Güner, A., Aslan, S., Ekim, T., Vural, M. & Babaç, M.T. (eds.) 2012. Türkiye Bitkileri Listesi (Damarlı Bitkiler). Nezahat Gökyiğit Botanik Bahçesi ve Flora Araştırmaları Derneği Yayını. İstanbul. ISBN 978-605-60425-7-7. Online edition. Reference page.
Ranjbar Mobarakeh, M. & Khalvati, S. 2019. World checklist of Moltkia (Boraginaceae) with notes on types. Phytotaxa 408: 143–160. DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.408.3.1Paywall ResearchGate Open access. Reference page.

Links

Govaerts, R. et al. 2019. Moltkia in Kew Science Plants of the World online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2019 Oct 24. Reference page.
Hassler, M. 2019. Moltkia. 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. 2019. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2019 Oct 24. Reference page.
International Plant Names Index. 2019. Moltkia. Published online. Accessed: 24 October 2019.

Vernacular names

Moltkia is a genus in the family Boraginaceae with 6 accepted species.[1] They are herby semi-bushes (shrubs) with dark green hairy leaves and hanging groups of tube-shaped flowers. The species occur in the south of Europe and western Asia, where they are sparely hardy.

It is found in the regions of Albania, Greece, Iran, Iraq, Italy, Lebanon-Syria, Transcaucasus, Turkey and Yugoslavia.[1]

The genus name of Moltkia is in honour of Joachim Godske Moltke (1746–1818), the Prime Minister of Denmark from 1814 to 1818. He was also father of Prime Minister Adam Wilhelm Moltke and the son of Danish diplomat Adam Gottlob Moltke.[2] It was first described and published in Neue Schriften Naturf. Ges. Halle Vol.3 (Issue 2) on page 3 in 1817.[1]

Moltkia petraea, an evergreen shrub, bearing alternate hairy leaves and blooms Lilac/blue tube-shaped hanging flowers in small groups and is found in the South of Europe. The hybrid Moltkia intermedia is bred from a crossing of the 2 species Moltkia petraea and Moltkia suffruticosa and has blooms with dark blue hanging tube-shaped flowers in bunches.
Species

Moltkia angustifolia DC.
Moltkia aurea Boiss.
Moltkia coerulea (Willd.) Lehm.
Moltkia gypsacea Rech.f. & Aellen
Moltkia × intermedia (Froebel) J.W.Ingram
Moltkia × kemal-paschii Bornm.
Moltkia petraea (Tratt.) Griseb.
Moltkia suffruticosa (L.) Brand

References

"Moltkia Lehm. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 27 October 2021.
Burkhardt, Lotte (2018). Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen – Erweiterte Edition [Index of Eponymic Plant Names – Extended Edition] (pdf) (in German). Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2018. ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5. Retrieved 1 January 2021.