Selkirkia (plant)

Selkirkia
Selkirkia berteroi
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Boraginales
Family: Boraginaceae
Subfamily: Boraginoideae
Genus: Selkirkia
Hemsl., 1884
Type species
Selkirkia berteroi
(Colla) Hemsl.

Selkirkia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Boraginaceae.[1] Three species occur on the South American mainland and one, Selkirkia berteroi (sometimes written berteri), the first of the genus to be reported, is an endemic on Robinson Crusoe Island off the coast of Chile. It was previously considered a monotypic genus.[2]

  1. ^ Joachim W. Kadereit; Volker Bittrich (9 April 2016). Flowering Plants. Eudicots: Aquifoliales, Boraginales, Bruniales, Dipsacales, Escalloniales, Garryales, Paracryphiales, Solanales (except Convolvulaceae), Icacinaceae, Metteniusaceae, Vahliaceae. Springer. pp. 86–7. ISBN 978-3-319-28534-4.
  2. ^ Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden. New York Botanical Garden. 1973. p. 142.