
542  Subclass VIII. LAMIIDAE
(including  Varronia, Gerascanthus, ? Saccellium, 
Patagonula, Auxemma).
2.3 HELIOTROPIOIDEAE
Odoriferous trees, shrubs, lianes, or herbs. Corolla imbri-
cate or with involute margins. Stigma receptive only 
basi-laterally, discoid, then conical and more or less 
2-lobed at sterile apex, or hemispherical, with a ring of 
hairs, wet. Ovary entire or 4-lobed. Endosperm cellular. 
Fruits fl eshy or dry, lobed or unlobed, at maturity break-
ing into two or four bony, 1- or 2-seeded mericarps. 
Seeds exotestal, without endosperm. Cotyledons not pli-
cate. Contain pyrrolizidine alkaloids and salicylic acid 
(Tournefortia). Tropical, subtropical, and warm-temper-
ate regions. n = 5, 7–9, 11–14. – Tournefortia, Argusia, 
Heliotropium (including Parabouchetia),  Valentiniella, 
Mallotonia, Beruniella, Ixorhea, Nogalia.
2.4 BORAGINOIDEAE
Mainly herbs. Corolla often rotate. Pollen grains 4–6 
colporate. Style gynobasic, entire or lobed, arising 
from the base of usually deeply 4-lobed ovary. 
Endosperm cellular or nuclear, sometimes helobial. 
Fruits of four one-seeded mericarps (8–10 in Zoelleria). 
Endosperm scanty or absent. Mostly subtropical and 
temperate regions. Containing pyrrolizidine alkaloids, 
lakannin, n = 4–13. – trigonotideae:  Trigonotis 
(including Pedinogyne, Zoelleria), Omphalotrigonotis, 
Sinojohnstonia, Brachybotrys, Bothriospermum, 
Mertensia, Pseudomertensia, (including Scapiceph-
alus), etc; eritricheae:  Plagiobothrys, Allocarya, 
Amblynotus, Antiphytum, Echiochilon, Ogastemma, 
Sericostoma, Chamissoniophila, Amsinckia, Microula 
(including  Schistocaryum),  Anoplocaryum,  Trigono-
caryum, Microcaryum,  Chionocharis,  Actinocarya, 
Hackelia, Asperugo,, Eritrichium, Metaeritrichium, 
Tianschaniella, Lepechiniella, Heterocaryum, Cranio-
spermum, Lappula, Lasiocaryum, Stephanocaryum, 
Cryptantha;  rochelieae:  Rochelia;  cynogloseae: 
Bothrio spermum, Antiotrema, Cynoglossum, Pardo-
glossum, Ivanjohnstonia, Austrocynoglossum, Para-
cynoglossum, Harpagonella, Lindelofi a, Adelocaryum, 
Rindera, Trichodesma, Lacaitaea, Omphalodes, Sole-
nanthus, Kuschakewiczia, Trachelanthus, Mattiastrum, 
Paracaryum, Thyrocarpus, Suchtelena, Caccinia, 
Heliocarya, etc.  lithospermeae:  Arnebia, Huynhia, 
Macrotomia, Lithospermum (including Aegonychon), 
Ulugbekia, Neatostema, Buglossoides, Lithodora, 
Onosma, Maharanga, Cerinthe, Moltkia, Moltkiopsis, 
Stenosolenium, Alkanna, Halacsya, Echium, Lobo-
stemon, Echiostachys, Ancistrocarya, etc.; borag-
ineae: Pulmonaria, Mertensia, Nonea, Nephro carya, 
Paraskevia, Elizaldia, Symphytum, Brunnera, Anchusa, 
Lycopsis, Anchusella, Phyllocara, Cynoglottis, 
Gastrocotyle, Hormuzakia, Pentaglottis, Pectocarya, 
Borago, Trachystemon, etc.;  myosotideae: Myosotis.
2.5 WELLSTEDIOIDEAE
Low woody herbs or shrublets. Leaves grey-strigose. 
Flowers bisexual, solitary, 4-merous. Calyx imbricate 
or open in bud; corolla imbricate. Pollen grains 
3- colporate. Nectary disc absent. Style terminal, 
shortly bind; stigmas two; ovary 2-locular, with soli-
tary, pendulous ovule per locule. Fruits compressed, 
broadly obcordate, 1–2-seeded loculicidal capsules. 
Seeds comose, without endosperm, embryo curved, 
cotyledons accumbent. Southwestern Africa, Somalia, 
Socotra. – Wellstedia.
Ehretioideae are the most archaic group within the 
family (free or nearly free stylodia and copious 
endosperm in some genera). Cordioideae are more 
advanced (plicate cotyledons and usually more special-
ized pollen grains). Heliotropioideae are closely con-
nected with the Ehretioideae and probably derived from 
them. Boraginoideae, which are by far the largest and the 
most diverse subfamily of the Boraginaceae, have proba-
bly a common origin with the Heliotro pioideae. 
Wellstedioideae with their 4-numerous fl owers and cap-
sular fruits are the most isolated group within the family.
3. HOPLESTIGMATACEAE
Engler et Gilg 1924. 1/2. Tropical West Africa from 
Cameroon to Gabon.
Hoplestigma
Closely related to the Boraginaceae (Hallier [1911, 
1912] even included Hoplestigma in Boraginaceae), 
especially to the Ehretioideae (Takhtajan 1987), which 
is supported by palynological data (Erdtman 1952; 
Nowicke and Miller 1989).
4. LENNOACEAE
Solms-Laubach 1870. 3/6–7. California, Arizona, 
Mexico, Central America, northernmost Colombia, 
and Venezuela.