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Plumbaginaceae is a family of flowering plants, with a
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Plumbaginaceae is a family of flowering plants, with a cosmopolitan distribution
In biogeography, cosmopolitan distribution is the term for the range of a taxon that extends across all or most of the world in appropriate habitats. Such a taxon, usually a species, is said to exhibit cosmopolitanism or cosmopolitism. The ext ...
. The family is sometimes referred to as the leadwort family or the plumbago family.
Most species in this family are perennial herbaceous
Herbaceous plants are vascular plants that have no persistent woody stems above ground. This broad category of plants includes many perennials, and nearly all annuals and biennials.
Definitions of "herb" and "herbaceous"
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plants, but a few grow as liana
A liana is a long- stemmed, woody vine that is rooted in the soil at ground level and uses trees, as well as other means of vertical support, to climb up to the canopy in search of direct sunlight. The word ''liana'' does not refer to a ta ...
s or shrub
A shrub (often also called a bush) is a small-to-medium-sized perennial woody plant. Unlike herbaceous plants, shrubs have persistent woody stems above the ground. Shrubs can be either deciduous or evergreen. They are distinguished from trees ...
s. 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
Plumbaginales is an order of flowering plants. The order is recognized by several systems, such as the Wettstein system, last revised in 1935, the Engler system, in its update of 1964 and the Cronquist system, 1981. Its circumscription is typical ...
, which included no other families. The Dahlgren system had segregated some of these plants as family Limoniaceae.
Genera
*'' Acantholimon'' *''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 ...
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*'' Afrolimon''
*''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 ...
'', the thrifts or seapinks
*'' Bamiana''
*''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 ...
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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 plu ...
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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 ...
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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''.
De ...
'', the leadworts
*'' Chaetolimon''
*''Dictyolimon
''Dictyolimon'' 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 plumbag ...
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*''Dyerophytum
Dyerophytum is a small genus of three species of plants distributed in India, southern Arabia, Socotra and southern Africa.
Species
*''Dyerophytum africanum''
*''Dyerophytum pendulum''
*''Dyerophytum socotranum''
References
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*'' Eremolimon''
*'' Ghaznianthus''
*''Goniolimon
''Goniolimon'', sometimes called the statices, are a genus of flowering plants in the leadwort and plumbago family Plumbaginaceae, native to northern Africa, southern Europe, western and central Asia, Siberia, Mongolia and China. Low-lying peren ...
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*''Ikonnikovia
''Ikonnikovia'' is a genus in the family Plumbaginaceae, containing only the species ''Ikonnikovia kaufmannia'', native to Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Xinjiang
Xinjiang, SASM/GNC: ''Xinjang''; zh, c=, p=Xīnjiāng; formerly romanized as ...
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*''Limoniastrum
''Limoniastrum'' is a genus of plants in the family Plumbaginaceae, containing two known species of subshrubs found the Mediterranean region, within Africa and southern Europe.
It was published by Fabricius in 1759 in 'Enum. Meth. Pl. Hort. Helm ...
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*''Limoniopsis
''Limoniopsis'' is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Plumbaginaceae.
Its native range is Turkey to Caucasus
The Caucasus () or Caucasia (), is a region between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea, mainly comprising Armenia, ...
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*''Limonium
''Limonium'' is a genus of 120 flowering plant species. Members are also known as sea-lavender, statice, caspia or marsh-rosemary. Despite their common names, species are not related to the lavenders or to rosemary. They are instead in Plumbag ...
'' (syn. ''Statice''), the sealavenders
*'' Muellerolimon''
*'' Neogontscharovia''
*''Plumbagella
''Plumbagella'' is a monotypic 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 t ...
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*'' Plumbago'', the leadworts or plumbagos
*'' Popoviolimon''
*''Psylliostachys
''Psylliostachys'' is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Plumbaginaceae.
Its native range is South European Russia, Pakistan and Temperate Asia.
Species:
* ''Psylliostachys × afghanicus'' Roshkova
* ''Psylliostachys anceps'' ...
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*''Saharanthus
''Saharanthus'' is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Plumbaginaceae. The only species is ''Saharanthus ifniensis''.
Its native range is Western Sahara
Western Sahara ( '; ; ) is a disputed territory on the ...
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*'' Vassilczenkoa''
Cultivation and uses
Chalk glands are found in this family. The family includes a number of popular garden species, which are grown for their attractive flowers.References
External links
*Plumbaginaceae in Topwalks
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