Higher Classification: > Kingdom Plantae > Division Tracheophyta > Subdivision Spermatophytina > Class Magnoliopsida > Superorder Asteranae > Order Boraginales > Family Boraginaceae > Genus Echium

Echium creticum L.

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Echium*	L.	accepted genus name
*Isoplesion*	Raf.	synonym
*Larephes*	Raf.	synonym
*Megacaryon*	Boiss.	synonym

Species group names

*Echium australe subsp. macranthum*	Cout.	heterotypic synonym
*Echium creticum subsp. macranthum*	(Cout.) Cout.	heterotypic synonym
*Echium creticum var. grandiflorum*	(Desf.) R. Fern.	heterotypic synonym
*Echium grandiflorum*	Desf.	heterotypic synonym
*Echium australe*	Lam.	synonym
*Echium macranthum*	Roem. & Schult.	synonym
*Echium megalanthos*	Lapeyr.	synonym; nom. illeg.

Children

Echium creticum L. subsp. creticum
Echium creticum subsp. granatense (Coincy) Valdés
Echium creticum subsp. sauvagei (R. Fern.) Valdés

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Majorcan: viperina sources: Anthos (2010). Information System of the plants of Spain. Real Jardín Botánico, CSIC - Fundación Biodiversidad. (for names from the Iberian Peninsula and the Balearic Islands).

Spanish, Castillian: ceñidor de campo; chupamiel de Castilla; chupamiel velloso

Literature

nomenclatural reference	L., Sp. Pl. 1753.

Genbank

Citation

Valdés, B. (2011): Boraginaceae. – In: Euro+Med Plantbase - the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity. Echium creticum L.. Accessed through: Euro+Med PlantBase at http://ww2.bgbm.org/euroPlusMed/PTaxonDetail.asp?UUID=94F9CCD7-36EE-4734-B5C3-6300B7539ACB