Plumbago
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Authority
Acevedo-Rodríguez, Pedro. 2005. Vines and climbing plants of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Contr. U. S. Natl. Herb. 51: 1-483.
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Family
Plumbaginaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Description - Shrubs or herbs, erect, creeping, or climbing. Leaves simple, alternate, petiolate or sessile, with pinnate venation; stipules absent. Flowers bisexual, actinomorphic, short-pedicellate, bibracteate, in terminal racemes or panicles; calyx with 5 longitudinal ribs covered with stipitate glands, the lobes triangular; corolla hypocrateriform, the tube longer than the calyx, the lobes obovate, rounded, or truncate; stamens 5, the filaments free, included or slightly exserted, the anthers dehiscent by longitudinal valves; ovary superior, unilocular, with one basal ovule per carpel; style united, with 5 stigmatic branches. Fruit a valvate capsule, membranaceous, with a single seed. A tropical genus of 12-20 species.