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Description
Family Plumbaginaceae
Shrublets
, shrubs
, or herbs. Stems striate
or reduced to a caudex
. Leaves simple
, alternate or basal, sessile or petiolate
but petiole
usually indistinct from blade
; stipules absent; leaf blade entire or rarely pinnately lobed
, with chalk
glands
on both surfaces. Inflorescences terminal
or axillary
, unbranched or branched, spicate
, spicate-racemose, subcapitate
, capitate, or paniculate
, arranged into complanate
spikes if branched, all composed of 1--10 or more cymules
or helicoid
cymes; cymules or helicoid cymes usually known as spikelets
, 1--5-flowered; bracts 1 at base
of each spikelet; bractlets
1 or 2 at base of each flower. Flowers bisexual
, actinomorphic
, sessile or very shortly pedicellate
. Calyx persistent
, hypogynous, tubular
to funnelform
, 5-ribbed, 5-lobed. Corolla hypogynous, petals connate
but sometimes only at base, lobes
or segments 5 and twisted. Stamens opposite corolla lobes, hypogynous or inserted
at corolla base; anthers
2-locular, dehiscing longitudinally. Pistil 1. Ovary superior, 1-locular. Styles 5, free
or connate. Stigmas 5. Ovule 1, pendulous from a basal funicle. Capsules usually enclosed within calyx. Seeds 1 per capsule; embryo straight, surrounded by thin starchy endosperm.
About 25 genera and 440 species: worldwide, main diversity
in C Asia and Mediterranean region; seven genera and 46 species (11 endemic) in China.[1]
Taxonomy
- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- eukaryotes
- Kingdom:
Plantae
()
- Haeckel, 1866
- Plants
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
()
- Cavalier-Smith, 1981
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
()
- Sinnott, 1935 ex Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Vascular Plants
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
()
- Infraphylum:
Radiatopses
()
- Kenrick & Crane, 1997
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
()
- Brongniart, 1843
- Dicotyledons
- Subclass:
Caryophyllidae
()
- Takhtajan, 1967
- Superorder:
Plumbaginanae
()
- Takhtajan Ex Reveal, 1992
- Order:
Caryophyllales
()
- Perleb, 1826
- Family:
Plumbaginaceae
()
- A.L. de Jussieu, 1789, nom. cons.
- leadwort
- Subfamily:
Staticoideae
()
- Genus:
Statice
()
- Specific epithet:
cordata
- Guss.
- Botanical name: - Statice cordata Guss.
- Specific epithet:
cordata
- Guss.
- Genus:
Statice
(
- Subfamily:
Staticoideae
(
- Family:
Plumbaginaceae
(
- Order:
Caryophyllales
(
- Superorder:
Plumbaginanae
(
- Subclass:
Caryophyllidae
(
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
(
- Infraphylum:
Radiatopses
(
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
(
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
(
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
(
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
Notes
Publishing author : Guss. Publication : Fl. Sic . Prodr. 1: 382 1827 [Oct-Dec 1827]
Similar Species
Members of the genus Statice
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 1 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:
S. otolepis (Saltmarsh Sealavender)
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Further Reading
- A catalogue of the phaenogamous plants of Great Britain: arranged according to the natural orders: with a copious list of synonyms carefully compiled from Steudel's Nomenclator botanicus, Smith's English flora, Hookers's British flora, Lindley's Synopsis, by Henry Ibbotson. London: H. Bailliere, 1848. url p. 101.
- Anales de la Sociedad Española de Historia Natural. Madrid: La Sociedad, url p. 125, p. 141, p. 347, p. 347.
- Florula Mortolensis. An enumeration of the plants growing wild at La Mortola. Ventimiglia, Billi, 1905. url .
- Hand-list of herbaceous plants cultivated in the Royal Botanic Gardens. London, Printed for H. M. Stationery Off. by Darling, 1902. url p. 1111.
- Journal of botany, British and foreign. London: Robert Hardwicke, 1863-1942. url , p. 367, p. 63, p. 72, p. 94, p. v.
- The Annals and magazine of natural history; zoology, botany, and geology being a continuation of the Annals combined with Loudon and Charlesworth's Magazine of Natural History. London, Taylor and Francis, Ltd. url p. 402, p. 402.
- The British flora: comprising the phaenogamous, or flowering plants and the ferns / by Sir William Jackson Hooker. London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green & Longmans, 1838- url p. 130.
- The Gardeners' chronicle: a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. London: [Gardeners Chronicle], 1874-1955. url p. 78.
- The book of the seasons: or, The calendar of nature / by William Howitt. Philadelphia: Carey and Hart, 1842. url p. 145.
- The book of the seasons; or, The calendar of nature. LondonR. Bentley1833 url p. 121.
- Peng Ze-xiang (as Peng Tse-hsiang) in Li Shu-gang (as Lee Shu-kang), ed. 1987. Plumbaginaceae. Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 60(1): 1-47.
Notes
Contributors
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 16, 2012.
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 10746754
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 15740817
- Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:687306-1
- International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 687306-1
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 1366633
Footnotes
- Tse-Hsiang Pen & Rudolf V. Kamelin "Plumbaginaceae". in Flora of China Vol. 15 Page 190. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
