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Plumbaginaceae - Plumbago family

Vickery, A.R. (1983) Plumbaginaceae Flora Zambesiaca 7(1)

Description of the family

Perennial herbs or small shrubs. Stipules 0. Leaves alternate or in basal rosettes, simple. Flowers 5-merous, bisexual, actinomorphic, arranged in a simple inflorescence. Calyx consists of a 5- or 10-ribbed tube. Petals united into a long tube. Ovary superior, 1-locular with 1 ovule per loculus. Style 1 with 5 lobes. Fruit a membranous capsule, enclosed in the persistent calyx.

Worldwide: 27 genera and 730 species, cosmopolitan, but often in maritime situations.

Botswana: 1 genus and 1 taxon.

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Other sources of information about Plumbaginaceae:

Our websites:

Flora of Burundi: Plumbaginaceae
Flora of Caprivi: Plumbaginaceae
Flora of the DRC: Plumbaginaceae
Flora of Malawi: Plumbaginaceae
Flora of Mozambique: Plumbaginaceae
Flora of Mozambique: cultivated Plumbaginaceae
Flora of Rwanda: Plumbaginaceae
Flora of Zambia: Plumbaginaceae
Flora of Zimbabwe: Plumbaginaceae
Flora of Zimbabwe: cultivated Plumbaginaceae

External websites:

African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): Plumbaginaceae
BHL (Biodiversity Heritage Library): Plumbaginaceae
EOL (Encyclopedia of Life): Plumbaginaceae
GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility): Plumbaginaceae
Google: Web - Images - Scholar
iNaturalist: Plumbaginaceae
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Plumbaginaceae
JSTOR Plant Science: Plumbaginaceae
Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Plumbaginaceae
Wikipedia: Plumbaginaceae
Plants of the World Online: Plumbaginaceae
Tropicos: Plumbaginaceae



Copyright: Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings and Meg Coates Palgrave, 2014-24

Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. & Coates Palgrave, M. (2024). Flora of Botswana: Family page: Plumbaginaceae.
https://www.botswanaflora.com/speciesdata/family.php?family_id=176, retrieved 6 October 2024

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