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Lantana rugosa

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Name

Identification
Lantana wightiana Wall. [family VERBENACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet, Lantana rugosa Thunb. [family VERBENACEAE ] Verified by H.N.Moldenke, 1960
Related name
  • Lippia not on sheet
  • Lantana wightiana
  • Lantana salvifolia
  • Lantana salviifolia
  • Lantana rugosa
  • Lantana annua
  • Lippia lupuliformis
  • Lantana reptans

Flora

Entry for LANTANA salvifolia Jacq. [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
LANTANA salvifolia Jacq. [family VERBENACEAE], Hort. Schoenbr. iii. 18, t. 285;—Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. 2, 875; Thunb. Prodr. 98, and Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 459; Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 827; Baker in Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. v. 276 partly.
LANTANA alba Mill. ex Link [family VERBENACEAE], Enum. Pl. Hort. Berol. ii. 126; Walp. Rep. iv. 63; Schauer in DC. Prod. xi. 606.
LANTANA salviæfolia E. Meyer [family VERBENACEAE], Comm. 273; Drège in Linnæa xx. 202; Walp. Rep. iv. 64; Schauer in DC. Prod. xi. 605.
LANTANA rugosa Thunb. [family VERBENACEAE], Prodr. 98, and Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 459.
LANTANA indica Roxb. [family VERBENACEAE], Hort. Beng. 46; Wight, Ic. Pl. t. 1464; Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. 562.
Lippia caffra Sonder [family VERBENACEAE], in Linnæa, xxiii. 88.
Camara salviæfolia O. Kuntze [family VERBENACEAE], Rev. Gen. Pl. iii. 250.
Camara salviæfolia O. Kuntze var. transvalensis [family VERBENACEAE], l. c.
Information
an erect, much-branched, aromatic shrub, 3–6 ft. high; branches unarmed, tetragonal, scabrid, densely pubescent or villous in the younger parts; leaves opposite, or in whorls of 3 or 4, shortly petiolate, oblong-ovate, rounded or subcordate at the base, more or less decurrent on the petiole, obtuse or subacute, coarsely crenate or crenate-serrate, scabrid-pubescent or pubescent and more or less rugose above, villous-tomentose, pubescent, scabrid-pubescent or -puberulous on the veins beneath, profusely punctate-glandular, with 4–5 ascending primary nerves on each side impressed above, prominent beneath, 3/4–1 1/2 in. long, 1/3–1 in. broad; petiole 1–4 lin. long; spike pedunculate, axillary, subglobose, becoming cylindric, 1/4– 1/3 in. in diam., up to 1 in. long; peduncle acutely tetragonal, scabrid-pubescent, shorter or longer than the leaves; bracts herbaceous, imbricate, becoming separated in fruit by the elongation of the internodes of the axis, deciduous, the lower ones frequently barren, sessile, broadly oblong-ovate, acuminate, obtuse, with entire revolute or flat margins, 5–7-nerved at the base, profusely punctate-glandular, puberulous or pubescent, 2–6 lin. long, 1–3 1/2 lin. broad; calyx tubular, loosely investing the base of the corolla-tube, obscurely 2-lobed or 4-toothed, glandular, glabrous within, more or less distinctly 4-nerved, pubescent without and on the margin, 3/4–1 lin. long; corolla-tube straight, slightly dilated about the middle, pubescent and glandular without above the middle, glabrous within, 1/4– 1/2 in. long; ovary and style glabrous, about 1 lin. long; drupe subglobose, purple, with a sweet edible pulp, glabrescent, about 2 lin. long, 1 1/4 lin. broad; endocarp hard, bony, deeply furrowed; pyrene ovoid, acute, flattened at the commissure, 1 1/2–1 3/4 lin. long, 3/4–1 lin. broad. null
Range
Also in Tropical Africa and India.
Distribution
CENTRAL REGION Beaufort West Div.; near Rhenoster Kop, 3000 ft., Drège. Graaff Reinet Div.; near Graaff Reinet, on rugged hills, 2600 ft., Bolus, 52! Drège. Cradock Div.; near Cradock, Kuntze. Somerset Div.; Modder Fontein, near Brak River, 2500 ft., Drège!COAST REGION Mossel Bay Div.; on dry hills on the eastern side of Gauritz River, Burchell, 6413! Uitenhage Div.; near the Zwartkops River, between Villa Paul Maria and Uitenhage, 50–500 ft., Zeyher, 1373! Ecklon & Zeyher! in thickets near Uitenhage, MacOwan, Herb. Aust.-Afr., 1385! amongst other shrubs near the Zwartkops River, Zeyher, 454! near brooks at the foot of Winterhoek Mountains, Krauss, 1134, and without precise locality, Pappe! Alexandria Div.; Oliphants Hoek, Pappe! Albany Div.; Fish River Heights, Hutton! near Grahamstown, Bolton! and without precise locality, Williamson! Fort Beaufort Div.; on grassy hills near the Kat River, Drège, and without precise locality, Cooper, 416! 453! British Kaffraria, Cooper, 143! Eastern Frontier, Hutton!EASTERN REGION Transkei; near the Bashee River, 500 ft., Drège. Krelis Country, Bowker, 9! near Butterworth, Bowker, 387! Tembuland; Qumancu River, Baur, 473! Natal; near Pietermaritzburg, Wilms, 2207! near Greytown, Wilms, 2208! near Durban. Sanderson, 147! Gerrard & McKen, 42! 599! 634! 637! Inanda, Wood, 246! on the hills between Umzimculu River and Umkomanzi River, among tall grasses, below 500 ft., Drège, and without precise locality, Harvey! Cooper, 1237! 3017! Delagoa Bay; Rikatla, Junod, 65.KALAHARI REGION Hay Div.; on the Asbestos Mountains, near the Kloof Village, Burchell, 2055! Bechuanaland; plains between “Olive Tree Station and Last Water Station, Burchell, 2325! on Maadji Mountain, Burchell, 2368! Orange River Colony, Vaal River, Burke! Transvaal; hills above Aapjes River, Rehmann, 4260! Zeyher (October) ! Houtbosch, Rehmann, 6183! near Pretoria, Wilms, 1177! Johannesburg, Kuntze.SOUTH AFRICA without precise locality, Harvey, 572! Zeyher, 1370! 1371! Masson! Alexander!
Notes
The berries are used for food in Zululand in times of scarcity; native names “Uguguvama” and (?) “Umpema” (Kew Bulletin, 1898, 53). This species, as defined above, is very variable; in thus treating it I have followed Hiern and Baker. Jacquin's type (which I have seen) is finely silky-tomentose (or pubescent) on the under surfaces of the leaves which are hardly rugose. A Durban specimen (Sanderson, 147) exactly represents this typical form which, however, is not confined to Natal. Kuntze distinguishes his var. transvalensis by its narrow leaves which are not rugose; although the material examined includes specimens possessing these characters, I cannot regard them as constituting a definite variety; the relative length and breadth and the rugosity of the leaves often vary considerably in the same specimen. The plant upon which Sonder founded his Lippia caffra (Aapjes River, Zeyher) is very small and imperfect; it is, however, exactly matched by a fruit-bearing specimen from Bechuanaland (Burchell, 2325 in Herb. Kew.) which is merely a villous form of Lantana salvifolia.

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