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Plumbaginaceae - Limonium Narbonense-002
Plumbaginaceae is a family of flowering plants, with a cosmopolitan distribution. The family is sometimes referred to as the leadwort family or the plumbago family. Most species in this family are perennial herbaceous plants, but a few grow as lianas or shrubs. The plants have perfect flowers and are pollinated by insects. They are found in many different climatic regions, from arctic to tropical conditions, but are particularly associated with salt-rich steppes, marshes, and sea coasts. The family has been recognized by most taxonomists. The APG II system (2003; unchanged from the APG system of 1998), recognizes this family and assigns it to the order Caryophyllales in the clade core eudicots. It includes ca 30 genera and about 725 species. The 1981 Cronquist system placed the family in a separate order Plumbaginales, which included no other families. The Dahlgren system had segregated some of these plants as family Limoniaceae. Genera *'' Acantholimon'' *''Aegialit ...
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Antoine Laurent De Jussieu
Antoine Laurent de Jussieu (; 12 April 1748 – 17 September 1836) was a French botanist, notable as the first to publish a natural classification of flowering plants; much of his system remains in use today. His classification was based on an extended unpublished work by his uncle, the botanist Bernard de Jussieu. Life Jussieu was born in Lyon, France, in 1748, as one of 10 children, to Christophle de Jussieu, an amateur botanist. His father's three younger brothers were also botanists. He went to Paris in 1765 to be with his uncle Bernard and to study medicine, graduating with a doctorate in 1770, with a thesis on animal and vegetable physiology. His uncle introduced him to the Jardin du Roi, where he was appointed as a botany Demonstrator and deputy to L. G. Le Monnier, professor of botany there in 1770. Le Monnier had succeeded Antoine-Laurent's uncle Antoine in 1759. Lectures by eminent botanists, including the Jusssieu dynasty were popular there, especially among pha ...
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Core Eudicots
The eudicots, Eudicotidae, or eudicotyledons are a clade of flowering plants mainly characterized by having two seed leaves upon germination. The term derives from Dicotyledons. Traditionally they were called tricolpates or non-magnoliid dicots by previous authors. The botanical terms were introduced in 1991 by evolutionary botanist James A. Doyle and paleobotanist Carol L. Hotton to emphasize the later evolutionary divergence of tricolpate dicotyledon, dicots from earlier, less specialized, dicots. Numerous familiar plants are eudicots, including many common food plants, trees, and ornamentals. Some common and familiar eudicots include sunflower, dandelion, forget-me-not, cabbage, apple, buttercup, maple, and macadamia. Most leafy trees of midlatitudes also belong to eudicots, with notable exceptions being magnolias and tulip trees which belong to magnoliids, and ''Ginkgo biloba'', which is not an angiosperm. Description The close relationships among flowering plants with poll ...
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Leadwort
Leadwort is a common name for various flowering plants in the family Plumbaginaceae, in particular those in the genera: *'' Ceratostigma'' *''Plumbago'' It can also refer to metallophyte plants capable of tolerating high levels of lead, such as spring sandwort ''Minuartia verna'' or alpine pennycress ''Thlaspi caerulescens ''Thlaspi caerulescens'', the Alpine Penny-cress or alpine pennygrass, is a flowering plant in the family Brassicaceae. It is found in Scandinavia and Europe. Description ''Thlaspi caerulescens'' is a low biennial or perennial plant that has sma ...
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Ceratostigma
''Ceratostigma'' (;), or leadwort, plumbago, is a genus of eight species of flowering plants in the family Plumbaginaceae, native to warm temperate to tropical regions of Africa and Asia. Common names are shared with the genus ''Plumbago''. Description ''Ceratostigma'' species are flowering herbaceous plants, subshrubs, or small shrubs growing to tall. The leaves are spirally arranged, simple, 1–9 cm long, usually with a hairy margin. Some of the species are evergreen, others deciduous. The flowers are produced in a compact inflorescence, each flower with a five-lobed corolla; flower colour varies from pale to dark blue to red-purple. The fruit is a small bristly capsule containing a single seed. Selected species *''Ceratostigma abyssinicum'' (Hochst.) Schwein. & Asch. *''Ceratostigma griffithii'' C.B.Clarke *''Ceratostigma minus'' Stapf ex Prain *''Ceratostigma plumbaginoides'' (Bunge) *''Ceratostigma ulicinum'' Prain *''Ceratostigma willmottianum'' Stapf Cultivati ...
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Ceratolimon
''Ceratolimon'' is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Plumbaginaceae Plumbaginaceae is a family of flowering plants, with a cosmopolitan distribution. The family is sometimes referred to as the leadwort family or the plumbago family. Most species in this family are perennial herbaceous plants, but a few grow as .... Its native range is Northwestern Africa, Southern Yemen, and Somaliland. Species: *'' Ceratolimon feei'' *'' Ceratolimon migiurtinum'' *'' Ceratolimon weygandiorum'' References {{Taxonbar, from=Q17396718 Plumbaginaceae Caryophyllales genera ...
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Cephalorhizum
''Cephalorhizum'' is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Plumbaginaceae Plumbaginaceae is a family of flowering plants, with a cosmopolitan distribution. The family is sometimes referred to as the leadwort family or the plumbago family. Most species in this family are perennial herbaceous plants, but a few grow .... Its native range is Central Asia, Afghanistan. Species: *'' Cephalorhizum coelicolor'' *'' Cephalorhizum micranthum'' *'' Cephalorhizum oopodum'' *'' Cephalorhizum pachycormum'' *'' Cephalorhizum popovii'' *'' Cephalorhizum turcomanicum'' References {{Taxonbar, from=Q9731936 Plumbaginaceae Caryophyllales genera ...
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Bukiniczia
''Bukiniczia cabulica'' is a plant in the plumbago or leadwort family, Plumbaginaceae. It is the sole species in the monotypic genus ''Bukiniczia''. It is a biennial native to Afghanistan and Pakistan Pakistan ( ur, ), officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan ( ur, , label=none), is a country in South Asia. It is the world's List of countries and dependencies by population, fifth-most populous country, with a population of almost 24 .... It forms a basal rosette of leathery leaves, growing a stem with pink flowers in its second year. References Monotypic Caryophyllales genera Plumbaginaceae Taxa named by Pierre Edmond Boissier Taxa named by Igor Lintchevski Flora of Afghanistan Flora of Pakistan {{Caryophyllales-stub ...
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Armeria
''Armeria'' is a genus of flowering plants. These plants are sometimes known as "lady's cushion", "thrift", or "sea pink" (the latter because as they are often found on coastlines). The genus counts over a hundred species, mostly native to the Mediterranean, although ''Armeria maritima'' is an exception, being distributed along the coasts of the Northern Hemisphere, including Ireland, parts of the United Kingdom such as Cornwall, and the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park in Wales. Some are popular with gardeners as rockery plants. ; Some species and subspecies *''Armeria alliacea '' *''Armeria alpina '' *''Armeria arenaria '' *'' Armeria berlengensis'' *''Armeria caespitosa '' *''Armeria cariensis'' *'' Armeria duriaei'' *''Armeria gaditana'' *''Armeria girardii'' *'' Armeria juniperifolia'' *''Armeria leucocephala'' *''Armeria maritima'' (sea thrift, sea cushion, sea pink) **''A. maritima'' subsp. ''andina'' **''A. maritima'' subsp. ''californica'' **''A. maritima'' subsp. '' ...
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Aegialitis
''Aegialitis'' is a genus of two shrubby mangrove species, with one native to Southeast Asia and the other native to Australia and Papua New Guinea. Description The two species of the genus are woody mangrove shrubs or small trees that grow up to 2 to 3 m tall. The deciduous species have leafy stems with leathery leaves arranged alternately or spirally. The leaf margins are entire and have parallel veins. The hermaphroditic flowers are pollinated by Hymenoptera, Lepidoptera, and Diptera. Flowers are arranged in terminal cymose racemous inflorescences. Individual flowers have five sepals arranged in a fused tube around the white gamopetalous corolla that has five petals fused into a short tube. The androecium consists of five stamens that are attached near the base of the corolla tube. The superior gynoecium has five carpels, each with a 1-celled pistil and unilocular ovaries. Fruit are dehiscent and have a spongy mesocarp. Unlike other mangrove species, the member ...
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Acantholimon
''Acantholimon'' (prickly thrift) is a genus of small flowering plants within the plumbago or leadwort family, Plumbaginaceae. They are distributed from southeastern Europe to central Asia and also in South America, but also cultivated elsewhere in rock gardens. Form The evergreen subshrubs are generally cushion to mat-forming, with densely tufted shoots bearing mostly awl (long, pointed spike) to needle or grass-like, prickle to spine-tipped hard-textured leaves. They have shortish, simple or branched flower stems which can be loose or dense. The summer-borne flowers are composed of a funnel-shaped calyx, usually with a flared membranous margin, and five spreading petals. Species There are over 400 species. Selected species of ''Acantholimon'' include: *'' Acantholimon acerosum'' *'' Acantholimon albertii'' *'' Acantholimon anatolicum'' *'' Acantholimon armenum'' *''Acantholimon artosense'' *'' Acantholimon avenaceum'' *'' Acantholimon bashkaleicum'' *'' Acantholimon biran ...
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