{"id":10797,"date":"2020-11-10T08:58:13","date_gmt":"2020-11-10T08:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.northafricatrees.org\/family\/plumbaginaceae-juss\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T16:35:59","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T16:35:59","slug":"plumbaginaceae-juss","status":"publish","type":"family","link":"https:\/\/www.northafricatrees.org\/en\/families\/plumbaginaceae-juss\/","title":{"rendered":"PLUMBAGINACEAE Juss."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Family comprised of 24 genera and about 635 species, mostly herbaceous, rarely shrubby or lianescent, distributed almost throughout the planet. In North Africa there are only 4 genera with shrubby species: <strong>Limoniastrum<\/strong><em>, <\/em><strong>Plumbago<\/strong><em>, <\/em><strong>Ceratolimon <\/strong>and <strong>Saharanthus<\/strong>, the latter two recently redefined by M.B. Crespo &amp; Lled\u00f3 (2000). The 2 species that now form the genus <strong>Ceratolimon <\/strong>M.B. Crespo &amp; Lled\u00f3. are small shrubs that do not usually exceed 0.5 m in height.<\/p>\n<p><strong>C. weygandiorum<\/strong> (Maire &amp; Wilczek) M.B. Crespo &amp; Lled\u00f3 (<em>L. weygandiorum<\/em> Maire &amp; Wilczek), with slightly fleshy leaves, obovate, a little lobulate, is endemic to the coastal rocky cliffs of the Draa region.<\/p>\n<p><strong>C. feei <\/strong>M.B. Crespo &amp; Lled\u00f3 [<em>L<\/em>.<em> feei<\/em> (Girard) Batt.], in Arabic &#8220;Ouden el-hmar&#8221;, has entire lanceolate leaves, fleshier, and it is endemic to the NW continental Sahara.<\/p>\n<p>None of these 2 species seems threatened. Currently, they have not been assessed at a global level on the <em>IUCN Red List of Threatened Species<\/em>. In the Livre Rouge de la flore vasculaire du Maroc (Fennane, 2021) <em>C. weygandiorum<\/em> has been considered as Critically Endangered (CR) and <em>C. feei\u00a0<\/em> as Near Threatened (NT).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-10797","family","type-family","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>PLUMBAGINACEAE Juss. - North Africa Trees<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"PLUMBAGINACEAE Juss. - North Africa Trees\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Family comprised of 24 genera and about 635 species, mostly herbaceous, rarely shrubby or lianescent, distributed almost throughout the planet. 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