| Source: | Valdés, B. (2011): Boraginaceae. – In: Euro+Med Plantbase - the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license (CC-By-SA-3.0 Unported).
 
 
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                            | Name: | Echium creticum L. | 
                          
						  
                            | Nomencl. ref.: | Sp. Pl.: 139. 1753 | 
						  
                          
                            | Rank: | Species | 
                          
                            | Status: | ACCEPTED | 
	
		| Taxonomy (this taxon is included in): | Regnum - Plantae Divisio - Tracheophyta
 Subdivisio - Spermatophytina
 Class - Magnoliopsida
 Superordo - Asteranae
 Ordo - Boraginales
 Familia - Boraginaceae Juss.
 Genus - Echium L.
 
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                            | Heterotypic synonyms: | Echium grandiflorum Desf. | 
                          
                          
                            |  | Echium australe subsp. macranthum Cout. | 
                          
                          
                            |  | Echium creticum subsp. macranthum (Cout.) Cout. | 
                          
                          
                            |  | Echium creticum var. grandiflorum (Desf.) R. Fern. | 
                          
                          
                            | Synonyms: | Echium australe Lam. | 
                          
                          
                            |  | Echium macranthum Roem. & Schult. | 
                          
                          
                            |  | Echium megalanthos Lapeyr., nom. illeg. | 
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                          	| Included taxa: | Echium creticum L. subsp. creticum | 
                          
                          	|  | Echium creticum subsp. granatense (Coincy) Valdés | 
                          
                          	|  | Echium creticum subsp. sauvagei (R. Fern.) Valdés | 
 
						  
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		| Common names: | ceñidor de campo (Spanish, Castillian), chupamiel de Castilla (Spanish, Castillian), chupamiel velloso (Spanish, Castillian), lengua de buey (Spanish, Castillian), rabo de gato (Spanish, Castillian), viborera (Spanish, Castillian), viperina (Majorcan)[Credits] | 
	
		| Maps: | distribution | 
	
		| Occurrence: | ● Ag Bl Co Ga Hs(S) dIt Lu Ma Sa ?Si(S) Tn |