Echium maculatum L. BORAGINACEAE Ketevan Batsatsashvili, Naiba P. Mehdiyeva, George Fayvush, Zaal Kikvidze, Manana Khutsishvili, Inesa Maisaia, Shalva Sikharulidze, David Tchelidze, Alla Aleksanyan, Valida M. Alizade, Narel Y. Paniagua Zambrana, and Rainer W. Bussmann Synonyms Echium rubrum Jacq.; Echium russicum J. F. Gmel.; Echium acutifolium Lehm.; Echium clavatum Willd. ex Lehm.; Echium linearifolium K. Koch K. Batsatsashvili • M. Khutsishvili • I. Maisaia • S. Sikharulidze • D. Tchelidze Institute of Botany and Bakuriani Alpine Botanical Garden, Ilia State University, Tbilisi, Georgia e-mail: ketevan_batt@yahoo.com; mananakhuts@yahoo.com; Inesa.Maisaia@gmail.com; bakurianigarden@yahoo.com; nickibakanidze@yahoo.de N.P. Mehdiyeva • V.M. Alizade Institute of Botany, Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences, Baku, Azerbaijan e-mail: naiba_m@mail.ru; vm_alizade@yahoo.com G. Fayvush • A. Aleksanyan Institute of Botany of National Academy of Sciences, Yerevan, Armenia e-mail: gfayvush@yahoo.com; alla.alexanyan@gmail.com Z. Kikvidze 4-D Research Institute, Ilia State University, Tbilisi, Georgia e-mail: zaal.kikvidze@iliauni.edu.ge N.Y. Paniagua Zambrana Instituto de Ecología-UMSA, Herbario Nacional de Bolivia, La Paz, Bolivia e-mail: nyaroslava@yahoo.es R.W. Bussmann (*) William L. Brown Center, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, MO, USA e-mail: rainer.bussmann@mobot.org # Springer International Publishing AG 2017 R.W. Bussmann (ed.), Ethnobotany of the Caucasus, European Ethnobotany, DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-49412-8_29 281