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Lantana lavandulacea

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Identification
Lantana lavandulacea unrecorded [family VERBENACEAE ] Lippia javanica (Burm.f.) Spreng. [family VERBENACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Verdecourt, B.,
Related name
  • Lippia capensis
  • Lantana lavandulacea
  • Lantana salvifolia
  • Lippia javanica
  • Lippia asperifolia
  • Lantana not on sheet
  • Lantana odorata

Flora

Entry for LIPPIA asperifolia Rich. [family VERBENACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 5, page 180, (1912) Author: By H. H. W. PEARSON.
Names
LIPPIA asperifolia Rich. [family VERBENACEAE], Cat. Hort. Med. Par. 67, ex H. B. & K. Nov. Gen. et Sp. ii. 265;—Kunth, Syn. ii. 54; Walp. Rep. iv. 47; Schauer in DC. Prod. xi. 583; Baker in Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. v. 280.
LIPPIA capensis Spreng. [family VERBENACEAE], Syst. Veg. ii. 751.
LIPPIA scabra Hochst. [family VERBENACEAE], in Flora, 1845, 68; Walp. l. c. 134.
Verbena globiflora L'Herit. [family VERBENACEAE], Stirp. Nov. 23, t. 12 (excl. syn.); Willd. Sp. Pl. i. 116.
Verbena capensis Thunb. [family VERBENACEAE], Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 447.
Zapania odoratissima Scop. [family ], Delic. i. 34, t. 15.
Zapania lantanoides Lam. [family ], Ill. i. 58.
Zapania odorata Pers. [family ], Syn. ii. 140.
Zapania globiflora Poir. [family ], in Lam. Encycl. viii. 840.
Lantana lavandulacea Willd. [family VERBENACEAE], Sp. Pl. iii. 319; Jacq. Hort. Schoenbr. iii. 59, t. 361; Walp. l. c. 64.
Information
an erect much-branched aromatic shrub, 4–5 ft. high (Gerrard); adult stems terete or subangular, striate, scabrid-pubescent; leaves opposite or in whorls of 3 or 4, shortly petioled or sessile, oblong or oblong-lanceolate, cuneate at the base, obtuse or subacute, serrate or crenate-serrate, rugose, with 4–7 ascending primary nerves on each side impressed above, prominent beneath, scabrid-pubescent above, pubescent on the veins beneath, 3/4–1 1/2 in. long, 1/3– 1/2 in. broad; spikes small, globose, with a pubescent axis, solitary or 2–4 together, up to 5 lin. long, 2–3 lin. in diam.; peduncle 1/4–1 3/4 in. long; bracts not exceeding the flower, broadly ovate, obovate or slightly obcordate, shortly and abruptly acuminate or caudate-acuminate, silky-pubescent and glandular beneath, glabrous above, 1–1 1/2 lin. long, 3/4–1 lin. broad; calyx 2-lobed, compressed, densely pubescent without, glabrous within, 3/4–1 lin. long; lobes shorter than the tube, subacute, obtuse or rounded; corolla white, glandular and pubescent without in the upper part (more densely so in the lateral regions) glabrous or minutely pubescent within, 1 1/4–2 lin. long; posterior lobe broadly triangular, somewhat cordate at the base, smaller than the anterior; pyrene oblong, plano-convex, flattened at the commissure. null
Range
Also in Tropical Africa and Tropical America.
Distribution
COAST REGION Albany Div.; in thickets near Grahamstown, MacOwan! King Williamstown Div.; on the banks of the Buffalo River, near King Williamstown, Pappe! Drège! in rough places on the mountains near King Williamstown, 1500 ft., Tyson in MacOwan and Bolus, Herb. Norm. Aust.-Afr., 848! Krantz Kloof, Kuntze. Keiskamma, Mrs. Hutton! Eastern frontier, MacOwan, 503! Hutton! British Kaffraria, Cooper, 156!EASTERN REGION Transkei; Kreilis Country, Bowker, 276! Natal; Inanda, 1800 ft., Wood, 32! coast land, Sutherland! at the edges of the woods around Durban Bay, Krauss, 247! between Durban and Maritzburg, Sanderson, 97! near Durban, Gerrard and McKen, 638! near the Tugela River, Gerrard, 635! and without precise locality, Cooper, 1006! Gerrard, 61! Grant!KALAHARI REGION Transvaal; near Lydenburg, Wilms, 1182!SOUTH AFRICA without precise locality, Drège!
Notes
Native name “Um-Suswane”; used medicinally (J. Medley Wood, Ann. Rep. Col. Herb. 1892). In British Kaffraria known as “Fever-tea.”

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