Boraginaceae

Boraginaceae Juss., Gen. Pl. 128. 1789. nom. cons. 'Borage Family'

Characteristic Features:

Herbs, shrubs, or trees with usually hirsute or hispid vestiture
Leaves simple, spiral or opposite
Inflorescence unit usually a scorpioid cyme
Flowers actinomorphic, gamopetalous, often salverform
Ovary uperior, unlobed or strongly four-lobed
Fruit a drupe, capsule or schizocarp of nutlets

Diversity:

World- 155 genera 2,686 species (The Plant List 2013); 135 genera, 2,535 species (Christenhusz & Byng 2016); 121 genera, 2600 species (Mabberely 2017); 109 genera, 2013 species (CoL 2021)
India - 43 genera 209 species (Karthikeyan 2000); 45 genera, 215 species (BSI, 2021)
Indian Himalaya- 39 genera, 133 species (Singh et al. 2019)
Uttarakhand - 25 genera 52 species in (Uniyal et al. 2007)

General Characters:

Boraginaceae in Watson & Dallwitz (1992 onwards)
Boraginaceae in Stevens (2001 onwards)
Boraginaceae in POWO 2021 (Plants of the World Online)
Boraginaceae in Wikipedia

Systematic Position of the Family in Different Systems of Classifications:

Systematic position in 2-Superkingdom, 7-Kingdom classification of Ruggiero et al. (2015)

Super Kingdom- Eukaryota, Kingdom- Plantae, Subkingdom- Viridiplantae, Infrakingdom- Streptophyta, Superphylum- Embryophyta, Phylum- Tracheophyta, Subphylum- Spermatophytina, Superclass- Angiospermae, Class- Magnoliopsida, Superorder- Asteranae, Order- Boraginales