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  • COMMON NAME: The cape leadwort, blue plumbago.Cape plumbago.
  • ARABIC: الرصاصية الأذنية
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Plumbago auriculata Lam.
  • SYNONYMS: P. capensis Thunb.
  • FAMILY: PLUMBAGINACEAE
  • KIND: Introduced
  • EMIRATE: Fujairah
  • CATEGORIES: Landscape (L)
  • GROWTH FORMS: Shrubs
  • HABITATS: Terrace
  • TYPES: Perennial
https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/687056-1 http://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000487119 V.V. Byalt, V.M. Korshunov, M.V. Korshunov. Cadaster of the Flora of Fujairah Emirate (United Arab Emirates). Al Fujairah 2021.
Ornamental plant.
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.
Cultivated in UAE as ornamental plant.
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