Boraginaceae Juss.
Echium L. , legitimate, scientific
Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 1: 139 [tax. nov.]
  • Type: (not designated).
Linnaeus, C. (1754), Genera Plantarum Edn. 5: 68 [secondary reference]
Mueller, F.J.H. von (1858), Fourth systematic index of the plants of Victoria. Victoria - Parliamentary Papers- Votes and Proceedings of the Legislative Assembly: 19 [secondary reference]
Mueller, F.J.H. von (1858), Fourth systematic index of the plants of Victoria. Victoria - Parliamentary Papers- Votes and Proceedings of the Legislative Assembly: 11 [secondary reference]
Britton, N.L. & Brown, A. (7 June 1913), An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British possessions Edn. 2, 3: 93 [secondary reference]
  • Lectotype: Echium italicum L.
Black, J.M. (December 1926), Meliaceae - Scrophulariaceae. Flora of South Australia 3: 477 [secondary reference]
common name: Snake-weed [n/a] common name: Viper's Bugloss [n/a]
  • Etymology: "From Greek ekhion, applied to some plant of this genus and probably derived from ekhis, a viper."
Black, J.M. & Robertson, E.L. (1957), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 4: 718-719 [secondary reference]
  • Etymology: "From Greek ekhion, applied to some plant of this genus and probably derived from ekhis, a viper."
Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains: 399 [secondary reference]
Eichler, Hj. (1965), Supplement to J.M.Black's Flora of South Australia (Second Edition, 1943-1957): 265 [secondary reference]
Curtis, W.M. (1967), Angiospermae: Plumbaginaceae to Salicaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 3: 495 [secondary reference]
Burbidge, N.T. & Gray, M. (1970), Flora of the Australian Capital Territory: 308-310 [secondary reference]
common name: Viper's Bugloss [n/a]
Piggin, C.M. (28 September 1977), The Herbaceous Species of Echium (Boraginaceae) naturalized in Australia. Muelleria 3(4): 215-244 BHL [secondary reference]
Cronquist, A.J. (1981), An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants: 917 [secondary reference]
Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 89 [secondary reference]
Mitchell, A.S. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Boraginaceae (except Halgania). Flora of Central Australia: 294 [secondary reference]
Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1986), Boraginaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 2: 357 [secondary reference]
Rye, B.L. in Marchant, N.G., Wheeler, J.R., Rye, B.L., Bennett, E.M., Lander, N.S. & Macfarlane, T.D. (1987), Boraginaceae. Flora of the Perth Region 1: 547 [secondary reference]
Wilson, Peter G. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1992), Boraginaceae. Flora of New South Wales 3: 398 [secondary reference]
Green, P.S. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (1994), Norfolk Island & Lord Howe Island. Flora of Australia 49: 311 [secondary reference]
Jeanes, J.A. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1999), Boraginaceae. Flora of Victoria 4: 410 APC [secondary reference]
  • APC Comment: Detailed discussion of the introduction of Echium species into Australia, and misapplication of their names, particularly in minor literature, is given by C.M.Piggin, Muelleria 3: 215-244 (1977).
  • APC Dist.: WA (naturalised), NT (naturalised), SA (naturalised), Qld (naturalised), NSW (naturalised), NI (naturalised), ACT (naturalised), Vic (naturalised), Tas (naturalised)
Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Dicotyledons. Flora of the South West 2: 535 [secondary reference]
Western Australian Herbarium (2007), FloraBase: the Western Australian Flora Version 2.5: - [secondary reference]
Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 297 [secondary reference]