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Plumbago zeylanica

Botanic Family

Plumbaginaceae

Author

Linnaeus

Common Names

• Ilie'e
• Hilie'e
• 'ilihe'e
• Lauhihi (Hawaiian)
• Bai hua dan (Pinyin)
• Pit Pi Khao (Laos)
• Set Ta Moun Pleng Khao (Thai)
• Natunu
• Kenikeni (Fiji)
• Devil's Herb
• Toothwort (English)
• Hierba del Diablo
• Jazmin del Diablo (Honduras)
• Guacochite (Honduras)
• Mielilla (Honduras)
• Lagaña de Perro (Maya)
• Cheraka (Singapore)
• Kan-gyok-phyu (Myanmar)
• Bama (Bali)
• Oporio (Timor)
• Bangbang
• Sangdikit
• Talamkan (Philippines)
• Wild Leadwort

Geographical Habitats

• Pantropical

Natural Habitats

• Scrubland & grassland
• disturbed areas
• sand dunes
• forest
• scrubland
• riverside
• coastal
• cultivated land
• wasteland
• montane areas

Flowering Times

• Oct-Mar (China)
• All year (Nic) Jan (Mexico)

Fruiting Times

• Dec-Apr (China)
• Sep-Feb (Nic)

Slightly woody perennial herbs or shrubs erect, prostrate or sometimes scandent to 2.5m with striate branches, leaves to 125mm x 60mm, sticky terminal panicles or terminal spikes to 300mm long with floral bracts & bracteoles, of up to 70 flowers, 25mm long 18mm diameter white to pale bluish flowers, hairy calyx to 12mm long, 25mm long x 12mm white corolla, tube to 20mm long, lobes to 10mm long, fruit a pale yellow-brown capsule to 8mm long with 5 furrows, covered with persistent calyx, glabrous except for short hairs on inflorescence, leaves 100mm long glabrous above with lepidote dots beneath

Further References

• Bailey 1976
• Huxley 1992
• FOC
• FOH
• Mobot
• net
• Bodkin
• JPS
• Neotrop
• FB
• The Plant List 2
• G. Don
• RSNRV
• VOPR
• FS
• USNH
• FV
• FOTA
• FOMP
• Flora Malesiana
• GBS
• SAFIO