Pectocarya

Pectocarya
Pectocarya recurvata (fruit)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Asterids
Order:	Boraginales
Family:	Boraginaceae
Subfamily:	Boraginoideae
Genus:	Pectocarya DC. ex Meisn.
Species
See text
Synonyms
Harpagonella

Pectocarya is a plant genus of about 15 species in the family Boraginaceae. Plants in this genus are known generally as combseeds. They are small annual plants which bear tiny white flowers no more than 3 millimeters in diameter. Their fruits are nutlets which often have small projections that look like the teeth of a comb, hence their common name. The nutlets usually come in clusters of four. These plants are found mainly in western North America.

Selected species:

• Pectocarya heterocarpa – chuckwalla combseed
• Pectocarya linearis – sagebrush combseed
• Pectocarya palmeri – Palmer's grapplinghook
• Pectocarya penicillata – sleeping combseed, winged combseed, shortleaf combseed
• Pectocarya peninsularis – peninsula combseed
• Pectocarya platycarpa – broadfruit combseed
• Pectocarya pusilla – little combseed, purple prairieclover
• Pectocarya recurvata – curvenut combseed, combbur
• Pectocarya setosa – moth combseed