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Plumbaginaceae

Plumbaginaceae
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Nancy R. Morin in Flora of North America (vol. 5)
Herbs or shrubs [lianas], perennial or, rarely, annual; taprooted or rhizomatous. Stems woody stocks, acaulescent, or erect to prostrate, nodes swollen; indument of simple hairs, capitate glands that may secrete water or calcium salts, or multicelled glandlike structures. Leaves often basal, alternate, spiralled; stipules absent; petiole present or absent; blade linear to broadly obovate, ovate, or round, margins entire or lobed. Inflorescences terminal or axillary cymes, panicles, racemes, or corymbs, or solitary heads; bracts herbaceous, scarious, sometimes absent; involucral bracteoles (epicalyces) immediately subtending calyces usually present. Pedicels absent or present (short). Flowers bisexual, radially symmetric; perianth and androecium hypogynous; sepals persistent in mature fruits, 5, connate into 5- or 10-ribbed tube, mostly dry and membranous, sometimes petaloid, toothed or with distinct simple or lobed limbs; petals 5, nearly distinct, connate at bases or for most of their length (corolla salverform); blade clawed or claw absent, margins entire; corona absent; stamens 5; filaments adnate to bases of petals or free; ovary superior, 1-locular, placentation basal; ovules 1 per ovary, anatropous, bitegmic, crassinucellate; styles 1 with apically lobed stigma, or 5, each with linear stigma. Fruits utricles, achenes, or capsules. Seeds 1, embryo straight, endosperm present or absent.
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Acantholimon acerosum
Media resource of Acantholimon acerosum
Acantholimon alaicum
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Acantholimon alatavicum
Media resource of Acantholimon alatavicum
Acantholimon alberti
Media resource of Acantholimon alberti
Acantholimon araxanum
Media resource of Acantholimon araxanum
Acantholimon aristulatum
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Acantholimon armenum
Media resource of Acantholimon armenum
Acantholimon aspadanum
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not available
Acantholimon balchanicum
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not available
Acantholimon blakelockii
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not available
Acantholimon caesareum
Media resource of Acantholimon caesareum
Acantholimon caryophyllaceum
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not available
Acantholimon cephalotes
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not available
Acantholimon diapensioides
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not available
Acantholimon embergeri
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not available
Acantholimon erinaceum
Media resource of Acantholimon erinaceum
Acantholimon erythraeum
Media
not available
Acantholimon glumaceum
Media resource of Acantholimon glumaceum
Acantholimon gorganense
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not available
Acantholimon hilariae
Media resource of Acantholimon hilariae
Acantholimon hohenackeri
Media resource of Acantholimon hohenackeri
Acantholimon hypochaerum
Media resource of Acantholimon hypochaerum
Acantholimon karelinii
Media resource of Acantholimon karelinii
Acantholimon kotschyi
Media resource of Acantholimon kotschyi
Acantholimon lepturoides
Media resource of Acantholimon lepturoides
Acantholimon leucacanthum
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not available
Acantholimon linczevskii
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not available
Acantholimon litvinovii
Media resource of Acantholimon litvinovii
Acantholimon lycopodioides
Media resource of Acantholimon lycopodioides
Acantholimon macranthum
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not available
Acantholimon nawaricum
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not available
Acantholimon pterostegium
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not available
Acantholimon puberulum
Media resource of Acantholimon puberulum
Acantholimon quinquelobum
Media
not available
Acantholimon raddeanum
Media
not available
Acantholimon rudbaricum
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not available
Acantholimon sackenii
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not available
Acantholimon scorpius
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not available
Acantholimon senganense
Media resource of Acantholimon senganense
Acantholimon sogdianum
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not available
Acantholimon solidum
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not available
Acantholimon subavenaceum
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not available
Acantholimon subulatum
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not available
Acantholimon talagonicum
Media resource of Acantholimon talagonicum
Acantholimon ulicinum
Media
not available
Acantholimon venustum
Media resource of Acantholimon venustum
Acantholimon yamense
Media
not available
Aegialitis annulata
Media resource of Aegialitis annulata
Aeoniopsis cabulica
Media resource of Aeoniopsis cabulica
Armeria alboi
Media
not available
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