Alkanna
Encyclopedia
Alkanna is a genus of herbaceous plants including about 60 species of the family Boraginaceae
. The original alkanna plant is a native of the Levant
but is now found, wild and cultivated, throughout much of Europe
and around the Mediterranean
.
Boraginaceae
Boraginaceae, the Borage or Forget-me-not family, include a variety of shrubs, trees, and herbs, totaling about 2,000 species in 146 genera found worldwide.A number of familiar plants belong to this family....
. The original alkanna plant is a native of the Levant
Levant
The Levant or ) is the geographic region and culture zone of the "eastern Mediterranean littoral between Anatolia and Egypt" . The Levant includes most of modern Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Israel, the Palestinian territories, and sometimes parts of Turkey and Iraq, and corresponds roughly to the...
but is now found, wild and cultivated, throughout much of Europe
Europe
Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...
and around the Mediterranean
Mediterranean Basin
In biogeography, the Mediterranean Basin refers to the lands around the Mediterranean Sea that have a Mediterranean climate, with mild, rainy winters and hot, dry summers, which supports characteristic Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and scrub vegetation...
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Selected species
- A. amana Rech.f.
- A. angustifolia Sümbül
- A. areolata Boiss.
- A. attilae P.H.Davis
- A. aucheriana A.DC.
- A. auranitica Mouterde
- A. bracteosa Boiss.
- A. caliensis Heldr. ex Boiss.
- A. cappadocica Boiss. & Balansa
- A. confusa Sam. ex Rech.f.
- A. corcyrensis Hayek
- A. cordifolia K.Koch
- A. dumanii Sümbül
- A. frigida Boiss.
- A. froedinii Rech.f.
- A. galilaea Boiss.
- A. graeca Boiss. & Spruner
- A. haussknechtii Bornm.
- A. hirsutissima (Bertol.) A.DC.
- A. hispida Hub.-Mor.
- A. incana Boiss.
- A. jordanovii St.Kozhukharov
- A. kotschyana A.DC.
- A. leiocarpa Rech.f.
- A. leptophylla Rech.f.
- A. lutea A.DC.
- A. macrophylla Boiss. & Heldr.
- A. macrosiphon Boiss. & Heldr.
- A. maleolens Bornm.
- A. megacarpa A.DC.
- A. methanaea Hausskn.
- A. milliana Sümbül
- A. mughlae H.Duman, Güner
& Cagban - A. noneiformis Griseb.
- A. oreodaxo Hub.-Mor.
- A. orientalis (L.) Boiss.
- A. pamphylica Hub.-Mor. & Reese
- A. pelia (Halácsy) Rech.f.
- A. phrygia Bornm.
- A. pinardi Boiss.
- A. pindicola Hausskn.
- A. prasinophylla Rech.f.
- A. primuliflora Griseb.
- A. pseudotinctoria Hub.-Mor.
- A. pulmonaria Griseb.
- A. punctulata Hub.-Mor.
- A. sandwithii Rech.f.
- A. sartoriana Boiss. & Heldr.
- A. saxicola Hub.-Mor.
- A. scardica Griseb.
- A. shattuckia Post
- A. sieberi A.DC.
- A. sieheana Rech.f.
- A. stojanovii St.Kozhukharov
- A. stribrnyi Velen.
- A. strigosa Boiss. & Hohen.
- A. syriaca (Boiss. & Hohen.) Boiss.
- A. tinctoria Tausch
- A. trichophila Hub.-Mor.
- A. tubulosa Boiss.
- A. verecunda Hub.-Mor.
- A. viscidula Boiss.
- List sources : NOTE: Each species from the list at Tropicos.org was also checked against its corresponding entry at theplantlist.orgThe Plant ListThe Plant List is a list of botanical names of species of plants, available on the world wide web. It was created by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and the Missouri Botanical Garden...
for accepted status before being included on this page.