Plumbago arabica is a species of flowering plant in the genus Plumbago. It is a subshrub native to western and central India and to Oman and the United Arab Emirates in the southeastern Arabian Peninsula, where it grows in deserts and dry shrublands.[1]

Plumbago arabica
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Order: Caryophyllales
Family: Plumbaginaceae
Genus: Plumbago
Species:
P. arabica
Binomial name
Plumbago arabica
Synonyms[1]
  • Dyerophytum arabicum (Boiss.) M.R.Almeida (2001)
  • Dyerophytum indicum (Gibson ex Wight) Kuntze (1891)
  • Plumbago dyerophyta Christenh. & Byng (2018)
  • Vogelia arabica Boiss. (1848) (basionym)
  • Vogelia indica Gibson ex Wight (1847)
  • Vogelia perfoliata Stocks ex Wight (1847)

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