Family: Boraginaceae

Family description:

Herbs or dwarf shrubs, often hispid. Leaves alternate, extipulate, simple. Flowers usually in scorpioid cymes, usually actinomorphic. Calyx 5-toothed or -lobed. Corolla 5-lobed, cylindrical campanulate, hypocrateriform or rotate, usually with a distinct tube and limb; tube often with 5 scales, invaginations, or tufts or lines of hairs inside, sometimes with an annulus at the base. Stamens 5, inserted on the corolla and alternating with the lobes. Ovary superior, 2- or 4-locular; syle usually simple, arising from between the 4 lobes of the ovary(gynobasic), rarely terminal. Fruit of 2 or 4 nutlets (rarely 1 or 3 by abortion).