External links to taxonomic opinions:
- IPNI Life Sciences Identifier (LSID)
- urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:77327956-1
- Publication
- Journal of the Botanical Research Institute of Texas. Fort Worth, Texas
- Collation
- 17(1): 2
- Date of Publication
- 21 Jul 2023
- Family as entered in IPNI
- Boraginaceae
Type Information
- Collector Team
- R.C. Sivinski 4746
- Locality
- Otero Co.: mouth of Big Dog Canyon near the north foot of Brokeoff Mountains, 32 km N of Texas border and 11.7 km W of Eddy County line, T23S R19E Sec 23 NE¼ of SW¼
- Collection Date
- 15 Apr 1999
- Type Herbaria
- holotype UNM 26389
- Distribution Of Types
- New Mexico (South-Central U.S.A., Northern America)
Nomenclatural Notes
[epublished]
Remarks
doi:10.17348/jbrit.v17.i1.1286 Etymology: named for Richard D. Worthington, biology professor emeritus at the University of Texas at El Paso who spent decades exploring and making many important discoveries in the sky island mountain ranges of southern New Mexico and western Texas.