| Coldenia | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Embryophytes |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Spermatophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Boraginales |
| Family: | Coldeniaceae J.S.Mill. & Gottschling |
| Genus: | Coldenia L. |
| Species: | C. procumbens
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| Coldenia procumbens | |
| Synonyms1 | |
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Coldenia, named after C. Colden, is a genus of flowering plants in the family Coldeniaceae. It is the only genus in the family.2 As of December 2025, the sole accepted species is Coldenia procumbens.3
Taxonomy
The genus was traditionally included in the borage family, Boraginaceae sensu lato.4 It was assigned to the subfamily Ehretioideae, but molecular data revealed it to be more closely related to the genus Cordia, so that other authors placed in Cordioideae.5 Subsequently, it was placed in its own family, Coldeniaceae, within the Boraginales order, by the Boraginales Working Group.6 As of December 2025, this placement is accepted by World Flora Online,3 but not by Plants of the World Online which retains it in a broadly circumscribed Boraginaceae.7
References
References
- Coldenia procumbens L. Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 24 July 2024.
- "Coldeniaceae J.S.Mill. & Gottschling". World Flora Online. Retrieved 2025-12-17.
- "Coldenia L." World Flora Online. Retrieved 2025-12-17.
- Encyclopedia of Life: Coldenia
- Gottschling, Marc; Miller, James S.; Weigend, Maximilian; Hilger, Hartmut H. (2005). "Congruence of a Phylogeny of Cordiaceae (Boraginales) Inferred from ITS1 Sequence Data with Morphology, Ecology, and Biogeography". Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden. 92 (3): 425–437. JSTOR 40035480.
- BWG 2016.
- "Coldenia L.", Plants of the World Online, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, retrieved 2025-12-17
Bibliography
Bibliography
- Luebert, Federico; Cecchi, Lorenzo; Frohlich, Michael W.; Gottschling, Marc; Guilliams, C. Matt; Hasenstab-Lehman, Kristen E.; Hilger, Hartmut H.; Miller, James S.; Mittelbach, Moritz; Nazaire, Mare; Nepi, Massimo; Nocentini, Daniele; Ober, Dietrich; Olmstead, Richard G.; Selvi, Federico; Simpson, Michael G.; Sutorý, Karel; Valdés, Benito; Walden, Genevieve K.; Weigend, Maximilian (24 June 2016). "Boraginales Working Group: Familial classification of the Boraginales". Taxon. 65 (3): 502–522. doi:10.12705/653.5. hdl:2158/1062790.