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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:
patens
- Fisch. ex Boiss.
- Botanical name: - Statice patens Fisch. ex Boiss.
- Specific epithet:
patens
- Fisch. ex Boiss.
- 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 : Fisch. ex Boiss. Publication : Prodr. (DC.) 12: 661 1848 [5 Nov 1848]
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
- 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
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 4570286
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]
