Tag Archives | Plumbaginaceae

Plumbaginaceae  are perennial herbs or shrubs. Leaves are simple, alternate, stipulate or exstipulate. Inflorescence various, racemes, spikes, panicles, cymose heads or dichasial cymes, etc. Flowers are bisexual, actinomorphic or slightly zygomorphic, hypogynous and pentamerous. Calyx tubular, 5-lobed, membranous, persistent, lobes valvate. Corolla tubular; lobes 5, often free very near to the base, contorted. Stamens 5, opposite to petals and often [...]