Family | RUBIACEAE |
Genus species | Plocama aucheri (Guill.) M.Backlund & Thulin |
Bibliography | Taxon 56: 323 (2007) |
Native Range | Sinai, Arabian Peninsula, s. Iran to s. Pakistan |
Primary Biome | Subtropical |
Habitat | rocky slopes |
Description | ramose, branchlets white, rigid, leaves minute, opposite, spathulate-linear, carnose, subterete, flowers 3-7, crowded in cyme, calyx plumose |
Size | 15-35cm |
Color | pale rose |
Bloom | early summer |
Ca | |
Type | subshrub |
Cultivation | sunny, dry, 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 basal cuttings in late summer |
Synonyms | Gaillonia aucheri (Guill.) Jaub. & Spach Jaubertia aucheri Guill. Neogaillonia aucheri (Guill.) Puff |
Territory | 3 Asia-Temperate 34 Western Asia (AFG Afghanistan, IRN Iran, SIN Sinai) 35 Arabian Peninsula (GST Gulf States, OMA Oman) 4 Asia-Tropical 40 Indian Subcontinent (PAK Pakistan) |