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Lantana subtracta

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Name

Identification
Lantana subtracta Hiern [family VERBENACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
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Flora

Entry for Lantana subtracta Hiern [family VERBENACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, page 273, (1900) Author: (by J. G. Baker and O. Stapf)
Names
Lantana subtracta Hiern [family VERBENACEAE], in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 828.
Information
A perennial herb, with sarmentose hispid stems 1–1 1/2 ft. long. Leaves opposite, mostly spreading, ovate-oblong or obovate, 1–1 1/2 in. long, rigidly herbaceous, obtuse, narrowed to the base, crenate, yellowish-green, scabrous. Heads solitary in the axils of the lower leaves, ovoid or globose, 1/3– 1/2 in. long; bracts ovate or elliptic, hispidulous on the back, the central ones 1/4 in. long. Calyx 1/20 in. long, compressed, keeled, not winged. Corolla white, 1/6 in. long. Fruit ovoid, rather compressed.
Distribution
Angola Lower Guinea Huilla; in hilly places and in thickets near Lopollo, Welwitsch, 5756!

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