An evergreen , scrambling perennial herb or shrub ; up to 2 m tall . Stems branched , wiry , tough , smooth near the base , covered in small glands higher up near the flowers . Leaves alternate , simple , 6-10 x 2-4 cm , ovate to ovate-elliptic , apex acute or shortly acuminate , base tapering into a short petiole , margins entire or undulate , glabrous . Inflorescences in terminal racemes , inflorescences axis with sessile glands , sticky ; bracts 4-5 mm , narrowly ovate with an acuminate tip , covered with sessile glands ; bracteoles similar but smaller c . 1 . 5-2 mm . Flowers white , small , delicate , very slightly scented ; calyx 12-14 mm , tubular , with 5 short lobes above , covered with stalked and sessile glands , sticky ; corolla white to white suffused with blue , tubular , 24-25 mm , 5-lobed above , lobes spreading ; tube 20-23 mm ; lobes 4-6 mm , obovate , often with an apiculate tip ; stamens included in the corolla tube ; ovary 1-locular , 1-ovulate ; style terminal , fikiform , c . 20 mm . Fruit
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Findlaya alba Bowdich
Molubda scandens (L.) Raf.
Plumbagidium scandens (L.) Spach
Plumbago americana Weigel
Plumbago viscosa Blanco
Plumbago zeylanica var. glaucescens Boiss.
Thela alba Lour.
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Ceylon Leadwort
Doctorbush
Wild Leadwort
White Plumbago
Wild Plumbago
Chitrak
Miller & Morris (1988) wrote that: "This plant grows throughout the wet mountains and is commonly found growing in the vicinity of old settlements as well as around the cave complexes where people and their herds used to live seasonally. It has various names, among them J: kefil d oṭin, which means 'companion to the Olea tree', in reference to the fact that it is frequently to be found growing around the boles of these trees. It is also called J: enșa in or enķi in, a word used to describe young boys (and J: enșa 'ot for girls), presumably referring to their predilection for plucking its white flowerets to suck out the droplets of nectar at the base. Or again, perhaps it refers to the common little bird called in J: si 'i which flocks around encampments, where this plant is also particularly common. The roots, and sometimes the
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*Ghazanfar, S. (2003). Flora of the Sultanate of Oman, vol.1: Piperaceae – Primulaceae. Meise, National Botanic Garden of Belgium (Scripta Botanica Begica, Vol. 25). ISBN 90-72619-55-2 ISSN 0779-2387. *https://en.wikipedia.org *Miller, A., Morris, M. (1988). Plants of Dhofar, the Southern Region of Oman: Traditional, Economic, and Medicinal Uses. Published by Office of the Adviser for Conservation of the Environment, Diwan of Royal Court, Sultanate of Oman; ISBN 10: 0715708082 ISSN 13: 9780715708088. *Pickering, H. Patzelt, A. (2008). Field Guide to the Wild Plants of Oman. Kew publishing, Royal Botanic Garden, Kew. ISBN 9781842461778. *POWO (2023). ""Plants of the World Online. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet; http://www.plantsoftheworldonline.org
