family boraginaceae การใช้
- In 1839 the botanical genus " Meneghinia " ( family Boraginaceae ) was named in his honor by Stephan Endlicher.
- This plant genus is in the family Boraginaceae, basal in one of the 2 main euasterid lineages, as per Angiosperm Phylogeny Group.
- ""'Halgania " "'is a genus of small shrubs in the family Boraginaceae which are native to Australia.
- The species is without chlorophyll and lives as a parasite on the roots of a number of desert species . " Pholisma " belongs to the family Boraginaceae.
- ""'Lithospermum rodriguezii " "'is a flowering plant of the family Boraginaceae found in Peru, particularly in Amotape district and Huancabamba Province.
- ""'Lithospermum leymebambensis " "'is a flowering plant of the family Boraginaceae found in Peru, particularly in Amotape district and Huancabamba Province.
- ""'Lithospermum cuzcoensis " "'is a flowering plant of the family Boraginaceae found in Peru, particularly in Amotape district and Huancabamba Province.
- ""'Lithospermum bolivariensis " "'is a flowering plant of the family Boraginaceae found in Peru, particularly in Amotape district and Huancabamba Province.
- The plant genus " Mertensia " from the family Boraginaceae is named after him, while the ctenophore genus " Mertensia " is named after his son Karl Heinrich Mertens ( 1796-1830 ).
- African elephants ( " Loxodonta africana " ) apparently self-medicate to induce birth by chewing on the leaves of a particular tree from the family Boraginaceae; Kenyan women brew a tea from this tree to induce childbirth.
- Colden wrote a taxonomy of the flora near his Orange County, New York home, which he rendered in Latin and sent to the Swedish patriarch of plant science and Latin nomenclature, Carl Linnaeus, who duly published the work and named the genus in the family Boraginaceae, " Coldenia L . Boraginaceae ".