{"id":12060,"date":"2020-11-10T10:07:25","date_gmt":"2020-11-10T10:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.northafricatrees.org\/species\/plumbago-zeylanica-l\/"},"modified":"2021-12-24T17:04:39","modified_gmt":"2021-12-24T17:04:39","slug":"plumbago-zeylanica-l","status":"publish","type":"species","link":"https:\/\/www.northafricatrees.org\/en\/species\/plumbago-zeylanica-l\/","title":{"rendered":"Plumbago zeylanica L."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Climbing shrub, with only main branches woody, angular-striated, 0.3-2.5 m in height. Leaves ovate, 2,5-13 \u00d7 1-6 cm, acute, narrowed abruptly at the petiole; petiole 0,2-1(2) cm long with amplexicaule dilated base, glabrous or pubescent. Flowers densely arranged into spikes, 3-35 cm long, often branched; peduncles with sessile glands. Rachis of the spike often pubescent or glandular. Bracts oval to lanceolate, acute, 3-7 mm long, 3 times shorter than the calyx. Calyx tubular, 1-1.5 cm long, very short teeth. Corolla white, gamopetalous, 17-33 mm in diameter and tube 12-28 mmm long, up to 2 times longer than the calyx, 5-lobed, lobes 6-9 \u00d7 3-5 mm, cuneate-retrorse, slightly mucronate. Stamens free. Style slender, glabrous. Fruit a capsule of about 7-8 mm, with reddish-brown or brownish-black seeds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","short_name":"Plumbago zeylanica","name_html":"<strong>Plumbago zeylanica<\/strong> L.","short_description":"","common_names":"","other_name":"<em>Eng.<\/em>: Ceylon leadwort, doctor bush, wild leadwort.","flowering":"July to October","fruiting":"August to November.","habitat":"Rocky soils on mountain slopes and plateaux. From sea level up to 2,000 m in altitude. It is a cultivated species.","distribution":"Most probably originated from southern Asia, however nowadays it is a widespread species across the tropics worldwide. Given its highly localised distribution in North Africa, it is highly probable that this could be a native species to the mountains near the Red Sea in Sudan and SE Egypt.","observations":"","conservation":"A rare species but widely distributed. Currently, it has not been assessed at a global level in the <em>IUCN Red List of Threatened Species<\/em>. 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