External links to taxonomic opinions:
- IPNI Life Sciences Identifier (LSID)
- urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:62943-2
- Publication
- Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany. London
- Collation
- 3(10): 296
- Date of Publication
- Oct ? 1851
- Family as entered in IPNI
- Boraginaceae
Type Information
- Distribution Of Types
- United States of America (Northern America)
- Type Remarks
- Hab. Rocky Mountains, Nuttall, in Herb. Hook. On decomposed calcareous rocks in the sandy desert of muddy rivers near the great salt-lake Timpanagos. Never seen before nor afterwards. August. Flowers red. Geyer. n. 80.
Remarks
Hooker used Bentham's description of this species, but did not ascribe the name to Bentham