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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
- Genus:
Thela
()
- Specific epithet:
coccinea
- Lour.
- Botanical name: - Thela coccinea Lour.
- Specific epithet:
coccinea
- Lour.
- Genus:
Thela
(
- Family:
Plumbaginaceae
(
- Order:
Caryophyllales
(
- Superorder:
Plumbaginanae
(
- Subclass:
Caryophyllidae
(
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
(
- Infraphylum:
Radiatopses
(
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
(
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
(
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
(
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
Synonyms
Plumbago Rosea Coccinea • Plumbago rosea L. var. coccinea (Lour.) Hook.
Notes
Publishing author : Lour. Publication : Fl. Cochinch. 1: 119 1790 [Sep 1790]
Similar Species
Members of the genus Thela
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Further Reading
- The Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. Bombay: The Society, url p. 349, p. 350.
- The flora of British India /By J. D. Hooker assisted by various botanists. Published under the authority of the secretary of state for India in council. 3 1882 London: L. Reeve, 1875-97. url p. 481, p. 481.
- The flora of British India. London, L. Reeve & Co., 1875-97. url .
- 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
- The International Plant Names Index. Accessed Dec 27, 2011.
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 9461464
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 15741315
- Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:687926-1
- International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 687926-1
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 1367131
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]
