Heliotropium crispum

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|taxon = Heliotropium crispum

|image = Heliotropium crispum 97A37.jpg

|image_caption = In habitat on the seashore, Tenerife

|authority = Desf.

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|Bourjotia kralikii|Pomel

|Heliophytum erosum|(Lehm.) DC.

|Heliotropium bacciferum var. erosum|(Lehm.) Hadidy

|Heliotropium canariense|Willd. ex Schult.

|Heliotropium erosum|Lehm.

|Heliotropium kralikii|Pomel

|Heliotropium maroccanum|Lehm.

|Heliotropium plebeium|Banks ex Buch

|Heliotropium suffruticescens|Pomel

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Heliotropium crispum is a species of flowering plant in the family Boraginaceae, native to western Africa (including the Canary Islands), Egypt, Sudan, south-western Asia, and Pakistan. It was first described by René Louiche Desfontaines.

Description

Heliotropium crispum is a very variable annual or perennial herbaceous plant. It has greyish leaves and dense cymes of small white flowers.

File:Heliotropium crispum 97B01.jpg|Flowers

Distribution and habitat

Heliotropium crispum is native to western Africa, from the Canary Islands, Mauritania and Senegal to Nigeria, Egypt and Sudan, and to Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan and Pakistan. In the Canary Islands, it is found on dry (leeward) southern or western slopes of all the islands.

References

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{{Citation |last1=Bramwell |first1=David |last2=Bramwell |first2=Zoë |date=2001 |title=Wild Flowers of the Canary Islands |edition=2nd |location=Madrid |publisher=Editorial Rueda |isbn=84-7207-129-4 |page=278 |name-list-style=amp }} (as Heliotropium bacciferum)

{{citation |title=Heliotropium crispum Desf. |work=Plants of the World Online |publisher=Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:116781-1 |access-date=2018-02-01}}

{{citation |title=Plant Resources of Tropical Africa |url=http://uses.plantnet-project.org/e/index.php?title=Heliotropium_ramosissimum_(PROTA) }}

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crispum

Category:Flora of Africa

Category:Flora of Saudi Arabia

Category:Flora of Afghanistan

Category:Flora of Pakistan