Plumbago
Sign in to savePlumbago is a genus of 23 species of flowering plants in the family Plumbaginaceae, native to warm temperate to tropical regions of the world. Common names include plumbago and leadwort (names which are also shared by the genus Ceratostigma).
Species
Genus
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassMagnoliopsida
- OrderCaryophyllales
- FamilyPlumbaginaceae
Plumbago wissii Friedr. – gatunek rośliny z rodziny ołownicowatych (Plumbaginaceae Juss.). Występuje naturalnie w Południowej Afryce oraz Namibii.
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 633
- With media
- 338
- Family
- Plumbaginaceae
- Collections
- FCF-UANL, IBUNAM, FC-UNAM, CICY, DERN-IMECBIO-CUCSUR-UDG, CIIDIR-IPN
- Recorded in
- Mexico, United States, Honduras
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Plumbaginaceae
- Image
- Plumbago.jpg
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- Plumbago
- Commons category
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- taxon rank
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- topic's main category
- Category:Plumbago
- taxon common name
- 白花丹属
- taxonomic type
- Plumbago europaea
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- homonymous taxon
- Plumbago
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Description
- Nomenclature
- Species
- See also
- References
- External links
Plumbago is a genus of 23 species of flowering plants in the family Plumbaginaceae, native to warm temperate to tropical regions of the world. Common names include plumbago and leadwort (names which are also shared by the genus Ceratostigma).
==Description== thumb|Plumbago indica thumb|Plumbago zeylanica The species include herbaceous plants and shrubs growing to tall. The leaves are spirally arranged, simple, entire, long, with a tapered base and often with a hairy margin. The flowers are white, blue, purple, red, or pink, with a tubular corolla with five petal-like lobes; they are produced in racemes.
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