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PRE — Plant Risk Evaluator

Plumbago auriculata

by ErgoSum88, Wikipedia user
Common Name(s)
Cape leadwort, plumbago
Synonym(s)
Plumbagidium auriculatum, Plumbago auriculata f. auriculata, Plumbago capensis

Is this plant a cultivar?  No

Life History:  Perennial

Growth Form:  shrub

Africa -
South Tropical Africa: Mozambique
Southern Africa: South Africa - Cape Province, - KwaZulu-Natal, - Free State, - Transvaal

Plants evergreen shrubs. Stems erect, trailing, or climbing, diffusely branched, to 3+ m, glabrous or pubescent on youngest shoots. Leaves usually sessile, sometimes short-petiolate; blade elliptic, oblanceolate, or spatulate, (1-)2.5-9 × 0.5-2.5 cm, base usually long-attenuate, sometimes auriculate, apex acute or obtuse, mucronate. Inflorescences 2.5-3(-5) cm, rachises short-pilose (hairs ca. 0.1 mm), eglandular; floral bracts lanceolate, 3-9 × 1-2 mm. Flowers 3-stylous; calyx 10-13 mm, tube usually short-pilose and with stalked, capitate, glandlike protuberances ca. 1 mm along distal 1/ 3/ 4 of ribs; corolla pale blue, 37-53 mm, tube 28-40 mm (more than 2 times length of calyx), lobes 10-16 × 6-15 mm; stamens included or exserted. Capsules 8 mm. Seeds brown, 7 mm. 2n = 14 + 0-1B.

External Resources
GBIF Species Page
USDA Plants Database page
Tropicos Species Page
US National Germplasm Database
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