Bothriospermum

Description

Bothriospermum is a genus of strawberry plants . Bothriospermum is included in the family of strawberry plants. It is a genus of flowering plants in the Boraginaceae family . It comprises 15 species described and of these, only 7 accepted. They are distributed in Asia . They are annual or biennial thin herbs with alternate leaves. Flowers small, axillary, pedicelled, in upper clusters. Chalice 5-match. Tube of little cylindrical corolla, throat with 5 scales; lobes ± diffusion. The fruit is a walnut, dorsally compressed. The genus was described by Alexander Bunge and published in Enumeratio Plantarum, quas in China you Borealis 47. 1833.