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Genus of flowering plants in the borage family Boraginaceae From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Euploca is an almost cosmopolitan genus of plants with 168 species.[2][4] It was first described by Thomas Nuttall in 1837.[1][5] While part of the broadly defined Boraginaceae in the APG IV system from 2016,[6] a revision of the order Boraginales from the same year includes Euploca in the separate family Heliotropiaceae.[4] Its species used to be classified in the genera Hilgeria and Schleidenia and in Heliotropium sect. Orthostachys, but were found to form an independent lineage in a molecular phylogenetic analysis, more closely related to Myriopus than to Heliotropium.[3] While many species use the C4 photosynthetic pathway,[7] there are also C3–C4 intermediate species.[8][9] Species have leaves with a C4-typical Kranz anatomy.[3]
| Euploca | |
|---|---|
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| Euploca salicoides | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Boraginales |
| Family: | Boraginaceae |
| Subfamily: | Heliotropioideae |
| Genus: | Euploca Nutt.[1] |
| Type species | |
| E. convolvulacea Nutt. | |
| Species[2] | |
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168; see text | |
| Synonyms[2][3][4] | |
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168 species are accepted.[2]
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