Recent advances in the systematics and phylogeny of some Mediterranean groups of Boraginaceae.

The spine of the Booraginaceae family phylogeny as resulting from the few molecular studies published to date suggest that Boragineae, Lithospermeae and Echiochileae are monophyletic groups, while the genera of Cynoglosseae and Eritrichieae seem to form a broad paraphyletic complex in which distinction of the two tribes as established on a traditional morphological basis can not be clearly recognized. The focus of our research in the last years has been the systematics and phylogeny of tribes Boragineae and Lithospermeae. Taxonomic problems in these groups are historically at the genus level.