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Medicinal and ornamental.
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Description
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Herb, perennial, 0.5--2 m tall, evergreen. Stems pliable, often lianous, simple or branched from base. Petiole base without auricles; leaf blade narrowly ovate to elliptic-ovate, (3--)7--9.5(--13) X (0.8--)3--4(--6) cm, papery, base rounded to obtuse, apex acute. Inflorescences spicate-racemose, (20--)35--90-flowered; peduncle 1--3 cm, not glandular; rachis (8--)10--40(--50) cm, not glandular; bracts ovate, 2--3 X 1.5--2 mm, apex acuminate; bractlets obovate-elliptical to ovate, 2--2.5 X 1.5--2 mm, apex acute. Calyx 7.5--9.5 mm, glandular almost throughout, tube ca. 2 mm in diam. at middle. Corolla purple to dark red, tube 2--2.5 cm, limb ca. 2 cm in diam.; lobes obovate, ca. 12 X 7 mm, apex rounded and mucronate. Anthers blue, 1.5--2 mm. Ovary ellipsoid-ovoid, indistinctly angular. Heterostylous; style basally pilose; short-styled form with style arms only partly exserted, stigmatic glands without enlarged apex; long-styled form with style arms completely exserted from corolla throat, stigmatic glands capitate. Fruit not seen. Fl. Nov-Apr. 2n = 14.
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Distribution
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Hainan, SE Yunnan [Old World tropics].
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Habitat
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Wet grasslands; 0--300 m.
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Synonym
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Plumbago rosea Linnaeus; Thela coccinea Loureiro.
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Comprehensive Description
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Plumbago indica L
Plumbago indica L., Stickman Herb. Amb. 24. 1754a; Amoen. Acad. 4:133. 1759.
Plumbago coccinea Salisbury, Prod. 122. 1796.—Hillebrand, Fl. Haw. Is. 286. 1888.—Butteaud, Fl. Tahiti. 70. 1891.
Plumbago rosea L., Sp. Pl. 2nd ed. 1:215. 1762.—Butteaud, Fl. Tahit. 70. 1891.
DESCRIPTION.—Shrubby, more or less climbing, with scarlet or purplish red flowers.
RANGE.—Society Islands, Marquesas.
Society Islands (cultivated): Tahiti: Introduced in 1882 by Bishop d'Axieri, according to Butteaud.
Marquesas (not previously reported): Nukuhiva: Mumford and Adamson 406, 20 May 1929 (BISH); Mumford and Adamson 644, 11 December 1929 (BISH).
Native from India to China and the East Indies. Also cultivated in Hawaii.
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- Grant, Martin Lawrence, Fosberg, F. Raymond, and Smith, Howard M. 1974. "Partial Flora of the Society Islands: Ericaceae to Apocynaceae." Smithsonian Contributions to Botany. 1-85. https://doi.org/10.5479/si.0081024X.17
Comprehensive Description
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Plumbago indica L
Plumbago indica L., Diss. Stickman, 24, 1754; Amoen. Acad., 4.133, 1759.
Plumbago rosea L., Sp. Pl., ed. 2, 215, 1762.
Plumbago coccinea Salisbury, Prodr. Stirp., 122, 1796.
Subshrub with slightly scandent striate stems; leaves ovate-elliptic decurrent into short petioles; flowers racemose, about 2.5 cm or more long, red.
SPECIMENS SEEN.—Hivaoa I.: Atuona, near sea level, in coconut plantation, PES (M & A) 406 (BISH, LeB), sterile.
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- Sachet, Marie-Hélène. 1975. "Flora of the Marquesas, 1: Ericaceae-Convolvulacae." Smithsonian Contributions to Botany. 1-38. https://doi.org/10.5479/si.0081024X.23
Plumbago indica
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Plumbago indica, the Indian leadwort, scarlet leadwort or whorled plantain, is a species of flowering plant in the family Plumbaginaceae, native to Southeast Asia, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Yunnan in southern China.
Growing to 2 m (7 ft) tall by 1 m (3 ft) wide, it is a spreading evergreen shrub with oval leaves. It produces racemes of deep pink or scarlet flowers in winter.[1]
Plumbago indica is cultivated as an ornamental plant. With a minimum temperature of 7 °C (45 °F), it prefers subtropical or warm-temperate climates, or a greenhouse in cool climates.[2]
It has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.[3][4]
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Plumbago indica: Brief Summary
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Plumbago indica, the Indian leadwort, scarlet leadwort or whorled plantain, is a species of flowering plant in the family Plumbaginaceae, native to Southeast Asia, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Yunnan in southern China.
Growing to 2 m (7 ft) tall by 1 m (3 ft) wide, it is a spreading evergreen shrub with oval leaves. It produces racemes of deep pink or scarlet flowers in winter.
Plumbago indica is cultivated as an ornamental plant. With a minimum temperature of 7 °C (45 °F), it prefers subtropical or warm-temperate climates, or a greenhouse in cool climates.
It has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.
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