| Dicotyledon | Literature for Plumbago zeylanica
Wagner et al., 1990, 1999; Lorence & Wagner, 2020. |
| Plumbaginaceae -- The Leadwort, Plumbago Family | Bibliography |
| Plumbago zeylanica | |
Common name(s): leadwort, `ilie`e, `ilihe`e, hilie`e, lauhihi (Ni`ihau) |
| General Information | ||
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| Distribution | Native to the Old World tropics ranging eastward to the Hawaiian Islands.In the Hawaiian Islands, indigenous to Ni`ihau, Kaua`i, O`ahu, Moloka`i, Lana`i, Maui, Kaho`olawe, Hawai`i. | |
| Habit |
Sprawling shrub, 1‒3 m tall; stems 0.5‒2.5 m long. |
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| Leaves |
Leaves short-petiolate; blade ovate, 3‒12.5 cm long, 2‒5 cm wide, well developed on flowering stems, both surfaces glabrous, apex acute to acuminate, base rounded to broadly cuneate; petiole 0.3‒1.5 cm long, base auriculate. |
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| Flowers |
Inflorescences a raceme, 6‒30 cm long, rachis stipitate glandular; bracts small. Flowers with calyx 7‒11 mm long, densely stipitate glandular, glands much longer than those of rachis, ribs dark green; corolla white, tube 18‒23 mm long, lobes obovate, 6‒7 mm long; anthers blue or purple; ovary and style glabrous. |
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| Fruit |
Fruit oblong, ca. 4‒5 mm long, glabrous. |
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| Seeds |
Seed dark purplish brown, ca. 4 mm long. |
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| Chromosomes |
2n = 16, 28*. |
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| Contributor |
Nancy Khan |
