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|accepted_name=Plumeria
|accepted_authority=Linnaeus
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sp. Pl.
|place=1: 209. 1753
|year=1753
}}
|common_names=Frangipani
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=I
|label=Introduced
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|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Apocynaceae;Plumeria
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Apocynaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Plumeria]]</div></div>
|etymology=For Charles Plumier, 1646–1704, French botanist who collected extensively in the West Indies
|volume=Volume 14
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Trees,</b> small or medium-sized; latex clear. <b>Stems</b> erect, unarmed, glabrous or eglandular-pubescent especially on younger growth. <b>Leaves</b> deciduous, alternate, petiolate; stipular colleters intrapetiolar; laminar colleters absent. <b>Inflorescences</b> terminal or subterminal, thyrsiform, pedunculate. <b>Flowers</b>: calycine colleters absent; corolla white with yellow eye [yellow, orange, pink, red, magenta], salverform, aestivation sinistrorse; corolline corona absent; androecium and gynoecium not united into a gynostegium; stamens inserted near base of corolla tube; anthers not connivent, not adherent to stigma, connectives not appendiculate or enlarged, locules 4; pollen free, not massed into pollinia, translators absent; nectary absent. <b>Fruits</b> follicles, paired, pendulous, brown, slender, terete or slightly compressed, truncate, surface smooth or striate, glabrous. <b>Seeds</b> narrowly ovate, flattened, winged basally, not beaked, not comose, not arillate. <b>x</b> = 9.</span><!--

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|distribution=Florida;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;n South America;cultivated widely in warmer regions of the world.
|introduced=true
|discussion=<p>Species ca. 10 (1 in the flora).</p><!--
--><p>Although it honors Plumier, the genus name has always been written as here treated.</p><!--
--><p>Plumeria rubra Linnaeus, a native of Mexico and Central America, is often cultivated in frost-free regions of Arizona, California, Florida, and Texas and can be distinguished by its more open, corymbose inflorescence of pink, red, magenta, orange, or yellow (rarely white) flowers.</p>
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name=Plumeria
|author=David E. Lemke
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Apocynaceae
|distribution=Florida;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;n South America;cultivated widely in warmer regions of the world.
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=Sp. Pl.
|publication year=1753
|special status=Introduced
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|genus=Plumeria
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