- Family: Plumbaginaceae Juss.
Plumbago Tourn. ex L.
This genus is accepted, and its native range is Tropics & Subtropics.
[FZ]
Plumbaginaceae, A. R. Vickery. Flora Zambesiaca 7:1. 1983
- Habit
- Perennial herbs or shrubs.
- Leaves
- Leaves alternate, simple.
- Flowers
- Flowers in alternate 1–flowered spikelets grouped in elongated terminal spikes.
- Calyx
- Calyx tubular, 5–ribbed, scarious.
- Corolla
- Corolla with narrow tube.
- Stamens
- Stamens free.
- Pistil
- Ovary 1–locular; style 1 with 5 stigma lobes.
- Fruits
- Fruit a capsule, membranous, enclosed in persistent calyx, dehiscing in a complete ring near base and often splitting into 5 valves from below.
[FTEA]
Plumbaginaceae, C. M. Wilmot-Dear. Flora of Tropical East Africa. 1976
- Habit
- Perennial herbs or shrubs
- Leaves
- Leaves alternate, simple
- Flowers
- Flowers in alternate 3-bracteate 1 - flowered spikelets grouped into elongated terminal spikes; central (outer) bract largest
- Calyx
- Calyx tubular, 5-ribbed, scarious between ribs, 5-toothed
- Corolla
- Corolla with narrow tube and rotate limb
- Stamens
- Stamens free
- Pistil
- Ovary 1-locular; style 1, with 5 stigma-lobes
- Fruits
- Fruit a capsule, membranous, with 5 small apical reflexed lobes, 1-seeded, enclosed in the persistent calyx, dehiscent by a complete ring near base, often splitting into 5 valves from below
- Seeds
- Seed dark brown or black, long, narrow, slightly flattened, tapering slightly towards apex, surface colliculate; hilum small, oval, in a longitudinal depression.
Doubtfully present in:
Guyana
Native to:
Albania, Aldabra, Algeria, Andaman Is., Angola, Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Arizona, Aruba, Assam, Bahamas, Bangladesh, Benin, Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Bulgaria, Burkina, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Provinces, Central African Repu, Chad, Chile Central, Chile North, China South-Central, China Southeast, Christmas I., Colombia, Congo, Corse, Costa Rica, Cuba, Cyprus, Djibouti, Dominican Republic, East Aegean Is., East Himalaya, Ecuador, El Salvador, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Florida, France, Free State, French Guiana, Galápagos, Gambia, Ghana, Greece, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Gulf of Guinea Is., Gulf States, Hainan, Haiti, Honduras, India, Iran, Iraq, Italy, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Jawa, Kenya, Kriti, KwaZulu-Natal, Laos, Lebanon-Syria, Leeward Is., Lesser Sunda Is., Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaya, Mali, Maluku, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Southwest, Morocco, Mozambique, Mozambique Channel I, Namibia, Netherlands Antilles, New Guinea, New South Wales, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Norfolk Is., Northern Provinces, Northern Territory, Oman, Pakistan, Palestine, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Queensland, Romania, Rwanda, Sardegna, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Sicilia, Sierra Leone, Socotra, Somalia, Southwest Caribbean, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Suriname, Swaziland, Taiwan, Tanzania, Texas, Thailand, Togo, Transcaucasus, Trinidad-Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkey-in-Europe, Turkmenistan, Turks-Caicos Is., Uganda, Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles, Vietnam, West Himalaya, Western Australia, Windward Is., Yemen, Yugoslavia, Zambia, Zaïre, Zimbabwe
Introduced into:
Ascension, Baleares, Canary Is., Cape Verde, Cook Is., Czechoslovakia, Fiji, Hawaii, Laccadive Is., Madeira, Marquesas, Mauritius, New Caledonia, Portugal, Rodrigues, Réunion, Samoa, Society Is., Tonga
- Plumbago africana (Lam.) Christenh. & Byng
- Plumbago amplexicaulis Oliv.
- Plumbago aphylla Bojer ex Boiss.
- Plumbago arabica (Boiss.) Christenh. & Byng
- Plumbago auriculata Lam.
- Plumbago caerulea Kunth
- Plumbago ciliata Engl. ex Wilmot-Dear
- Plumbago dawei Rolfe
- Plumbago europaea L.
- Plumbago glandulicaulis Wilmot-Dear
- Plumbago hunsbergensis van Jaarsv., Swanepoel & A.E.van Wyk
- Plumbago indica L.
- Plumbago ituriensis Ntore
- Plumbago madagascariensis M.Peltier
- Plumbago montis-elgonis Bullock
- Plumbago pearsonii L.Bolus
- Plumbago pendula (Kuntze) Christenh. & Byng
- Plumbago pulchella Boiss.
- Plumbago stenophylla Wilmot-Dear
- Plumbago tristis W.T.Aiton
- Plumbago wissii Friedrich
- Plumbago zeylanica L.
Plumbago Tourn. ex L. appears in other Kew resources:
First published in Sp. Pl.: 151 (1753)
Literature
Flora of West Tropical Africa
- —F.T.A. 3: 486.
Flora Zambesiaca
- Gen. Pl., ed. 5: 75 (1754).
- Sp. Pl. 1: 151 (1753)
Flora of Tropical East Africa
- L., Gen. Pl., ed. 5: 75 (1754)
- Sp. Pl.: 151 (1753)
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