Heliotropium bacciferum

Heliotropium bacciferum Forssk., Fl. Aegypt.-Arab. 38 1775. (syn: Heliotropium affghanum Boiss.; Heliotropium arenarium F.Müll.; Heliotropium bacciferum subsp. eu-undulatum Quézel & Santa; Heliotropium cressoides Franch.; Heliotropium nubicum Bunge; Heliotropium undulatum Kral. ex Pomel (ambiguous synonym); Heliotropium undulatum Vahl (ambiguous synonym); Heliotropium undulatum var. nubicum (Bunge) Maire);

Bahrain, Egypt (Desert Oases, Great Southwestern Desert, Nile Delta, Nile Valley, NW-coastal Egypt, SE-Egypt), Iran (S-Iran, W-Iran), Iraq (NW-Iraq, SE-Iraq: Mesopotamia, S-Iraq, W-Iraq: Desert), Israel (Rift Valley, S-Negev Desert), Jordania (S-Jordania), Kuwait, Oman (Mascat & Oman), Saudi Arabia (NE-Saudi Arabia, Hejaz, Asir), Sinai peninsula (S-Sinai), United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Yemen (Aden Desert, coastal Hadhramaut, N-Inner Yemen, Tihama), Afghanistan (Farah, Nangarhar, Paktia / Khost), Pakistan, Libya, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Western Sahara, Mauritania, Mali, Chad (Tibesti, etc.), Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Somalia, Sudan, Senegal, Comoros, Madagascar, NW-India, Australia (introduced) (Western Australia (introduced), South Australia (introduced)) as per Catalogue of Life;

Boraginaceae member Oct 2016, Faridkot. Punjab : 4 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (3)

ID requested for this Boraginaceae member Oct 2016, Faridkot. Punjab.

it is Heliotropium bacciferum Forssk.,

Thanks, … Wonderful efforts. How did you identify it?

I also feel it is close to images at (but I do not find its distribution in India):

http://www.floraofqatar.com/heliotropium_bacciferum.htm

http://www.arkive.org/turnsole/heliotropium-bacciferum/image-G117936.html

http://flora.org.il/en/plants/helbac/

http://www.efloras.org/object_page.aspx?object_id=91904&flora_id=5

http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=5&taxon_id=250069117

some plants enter our country by various methods; if it is available in Pak there is every possibility of an entry; (exotics)

Thank you … for the identification and thank you … for consulting many refs.

Catalogue of Life gives its distribution in NW India.

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Shrub for ID :: JJ – Jaisalmer, RJ, March 2018 :: ARKAPR-24 : 6 posts by 3 authors. Attachments (5)

Saw this very small shrub near Jaisalmer, RJ in March 2018.
Requested to please ID.

Looks like Heliotropium Species.

Pl. check

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Do you agree?

Thanks … It does look like the pics referenced by you.

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Heliotropium bacciferum FOR VALIDATION :: Rao Jodha Desert Rock Park :: 24 OCT 18 : 2 posts by 2 authors. 4 images.

Rao Jodha Desert Rock Park Jodhpur

Date: October 24, 2018 … Altitude: about 300 m (980 feet) asl

Heliotropium bacciferum Forssk.

Please help validate this plant as Heliotropium bacciferum. Unlike in my other post wire bush FOR ID, this bush has leaves, the branching is less tangled, importantly, the inflorescence is branched, and one of flower seen is clearly Heliotropium.