Family | RUBIACEAE |
Genus species | Plocama asperuliformis (Lincz.) M.Backlund & Thulin |
Bibliography | Taxon 56: 323 (2007) |
Native Range | Tajikistan to e. Afghanistan |
Primary Biome | Temperate |
Habitat | rocky slopes |
Altitude | 1500-3000m |
Description | leaves opposite, sessile, narrowly linear, 1-2cm, dark green, pubescent, at base vaginate-connate, with 4-6 subulate teeth, flowers in terminal, many flowered cymes |
Size | 20-40cm |
Color | rose |
Bloom | summer |
Ca | |
Type | subshrub |
Cultivation | sunny rock crevices, protection against winter wet alpine house, poor, drained soil, sun |
Propagation | seed in spring, barely covered, germ. 1-3 months, 10-16°C cuttings in late summer |
Synonyms | Gaillonia asperuliformis Lincz. Gaillonia chitralensis Nazim. Gaillonia kerstanii Ehrend. Neogaillonia asperuliformis (Lincz.) Lincz. Neogaillonia kerstanii (Ehrend.) Linchevskii |
Territory | 3 Asia-Temperate 32 Middle Asia (TZK Tadzhikistan) 34 Western Asia (AFG Afghanistan) 4 Asia-Tropical 40 Indian Subcontinent (PAK Pakistan) |