Wellstedia

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: Wellstedioideae
Genus: Wellstedia
Species: W. dinteri – W. filtuensis – W. laciniata – W. robusta – W. socotrana – W. somalensis
Name

Wellstedia Balf.f., Proc. Roy. Soc. Edinb. 12: 407 (1884)

Type species: Wellstedia socotrana Balf.f., Proc. Roy. Soc. Edinb. 12: 408 (1884)

References

Balfour, I.B. 1884. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 12: 407.
Hassler, M. 2017. Wellstedia. 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. 2017. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2017 Oct. 29. Reference page.
International Plant Names Index. 2017. Wellstedia. Published online. Accessed: Oct. 29 2017.
Retief, E. & Van Wyk, A.E. 2008. The genus Wellstedia (Boraginaceae: Wellstedioideae) in southern Africa. Bothalia 38(1): 57–63. DOI: 10.4102/abc.v38i1.261 PDF Reference page.

Wellstedia is a genus of flowering plants traditionally included in the family Boraginaceae s.l., but placed in its own family, Wellstediaceae within the Boraginales order, by the Boraginales Working Group.[1]

Species include:[2]

Wellstedia dinteri Pilg.
Wellstedia filtuensis D.R.Hunt & Lebrun
Wellstedia laciniata Thulin & A.Johanss.
Wellstedia robusta Thulin
Wellstedia socotrana Balf.f.
Wellstedia somalensis Thulin & A.Johanss.

References

BWG 2016.

"Wellstedia Balf.f." Plants of the World Online. The Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. n.d. Retrieved July 30, 2020.

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 (24 June 2016). "Boraginales Working Group: Familial classification of the Boraginales". Taxon. 65 (3): 502–522. doi:10.12705/653.5.