''Pontechium maculatum'' is a species of

flowering plant Flowering plants are plants that bear flowers and fruits, and form the clade Angiospermae (). The term angiosperm is derived from the Ancient Greek, Greek words (; 'container, vessel') and (; 'seed'), meaning that the seeds are enclosed with ...

in the borage family,

Boraginaceae Boraginaceae, the Borago, borage or forget-me-not family, includes about 2,000 species of shrubs, trees, and herbs in 146 to 154 genus, genera with a worldwide distribution. The APG IV system from 2016 classifies the Boraginaceae as single famil ...

. It is the sole species in genus ''Pontechium''. It is a

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native to parts of Europe and western Asia, ranging from Poland and Austria through the Balkans and Ukraine to eastern European Russia, the Caucasus, Turkey, and Turkmenistan. The species was first described as ''Echium maculatum'' by

Carl Linnaeus Carl Linnaeus (23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné,#Blunt, Blunt (2004), p. 171. was a Swedish biologist and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the modern system of naming o ...

in 1759. In 2000 Böhle & Hilger placed it in its own genus as ''Pontechium maculatum''.

References

{{Taxonbar, from= Q15938434, from2=Q671227 Boraginaceae Boraginaceae genera Monotypic Boraginales genera Flora of Albania Flora of Austria Flora of Bulgaria Flora of the Caucasus Flora of the Crimean Peninsula Flora of Czechoslovakia Flora of East European Russia Flora of Greece Flora of Hungary Flora of Poland Flora of Romania Flora of South European Russia Flora of Turkey Flora of Turkmenistan Flora of Ukraine Flora of Yugoslavia Plants described in 1759 Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus