Pectocarya is a plant genus of about 15[1] 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.
| Pectocarya | |
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| Pectocarya recurvata (fruit) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Boraginales |
| Family: | Boraginaceae |
| Subfamily: | Boraginoideae |
| Genus: | Pectocarya DC. ex Meisn. |
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| Synonyms | |
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Harpagonella | |
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
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