Andersonglossum J.I. Cohen. American Comfrey.
A genus of 3 species, perennial herbs, of e. North America and w. North America. These North American species previously assigned to Cynoglossum are in a strictly New World clade also including Cryptantha, Amsinckia, Plagiobothrys, and other genera, not closely related to Cynoglossum officinale, the type of the genus Cynoglossum. See Weigend et al. (2013) and Cohen (2015) for additional information.
Ref: Al-Shehbaz (1991); Cohen (2015); Haines (2010); Hilger, Greuter, & Stier (2015); Jiménez-Mejías, Cohen, & Naczi (2017); Weigend et al. (2013); Weigend et al. (2016) In Kadereit & Bittrich (2016). Show full citations.
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