Echium

See also: echium

Translingual

Echium vulgare

Etymology

New Latin, directly or via Latin echion, from Ancient Greek ἔχιον (ékhion, “Echium plantagineum”)

Proper noun

Echium n

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Boraginaceae – the buglosses and related species.

Hypernyms

• (genus): Eukaryota - superkingdom; Plantae - kingdom; Viridiplantae - subkingdom; Streptophyta - infrakingdom; Embryophyta - superphylum; Tracheophyta - phylum; Spermatophytina - subphylum; angiosperms, eudicots, core eudicots, asterids, euasterids I - clades; unassigned euasterids I; Boraginaceae - family; Boraginoideae - subfamily; Lithospermeae - tribe

Hyponyms

• (genus): Echium vulgare - type species. For other species see Echium on Wikipedia.Wikipedia or Echium at The Plant List.

References

• Echium on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Echium on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Echium on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Echium on Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
• Echium at National Center for Biotechnology Information
• Echium at Encyclopedia of Life
• Echium at USDA Plants database
• Echium at The Plant List