Coldenia

Coldenia
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Boraginales
Family: Boraginaceae
Subfamily: Cordioideae
Genus: Coldenia
L.
Species:
C. procumbens
Binomial name
Coldenia procumbens
Synonyms[1]
  • Lobophyllum F.Muell. (1857)
  • Monomesia Raf. (1838)
  • Coldenia angolensis Welw. (1859)
  • Lobophyllum tetrandrum F.Muell. (1857)
  • Waltheria microphylla Miq. ex C.B.Clarke (1883), not validly publ.

Coldenia, named after C. Colden, is a monotypic genus of flowering plants traditionally included in the borage family, Boraginaceae sensu lato.[2] It was assigned to the subfamily Ehretioideae, but molecular data revealed it to be more closely related to the genus Cordia, so that other authors placed in Cordioideae.[3] Subsequently, it was placed in its own family, Coldeniaceae, within the Boraginales order, by the Boraginales Working Group.[4]

The sole species is Coldenia procumbens.

  1. ^ Coldenia procumbens L. Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 24 July 2024.
  2. ^ Encyclopedia of Life: Coldenia
  3. ^ Gottschling, Marc; Miller, James S.; Weigend, Maximilian; Hilger, Hartmut H. (2005). "Congruence of a Phylogeny of Cordiaceae (Boraginales) Inferred from ITS1 Sequence Data with Morphology, Ecology, and Biogeography". Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden. 92 (3): 425–437. JSTOR 40035480.
  4. ^ BWG 2016.