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(Last Modified On 5/10/2013)
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(Last Modified On 5/10/2013)
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Species
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Lantana maxima Hayek
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PlaceOfPublication
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Feddes Repert. 2: 164. 1906.
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Description
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Herbaceous perennials or small, low, rounded bushes or shrubs, 0.5-2.6 m high, aromatic; stems and branches tetragonal, unarmed, densely spreading- villous, -hirsute, or -hispid, the branches divaricate. Leaves numerous, decussate- opposite, ternate, or quaternate, short-petiolate, the blades ovate or ovate-lanceo- late, firm-textured and heavy when dry, 5-8 cm long and 3-4.5 cm wide, regularly serrate, acute apically, acuminate basally and prolonged into the petiole, usually conspicuously rugose-nervose, hirtellous or hirsute-hispid above, densely villous- tomentose beneath with canescent trichomes. Inflorescences axillary; heads at first ovate-globose, soon elongating and cylindric-spiciform, 2-5 cm long and ca. 1 cm wide; peduncles slender, 5-6 cm long, densely villous to hirsute-hispid; bractlets conspicuous, ovate-lanceolate, 7-8 mm long and 2-3 mm wide, cuspidate- acuminate apically, densely appressed- or spreading-villous. Flowers with the corolla pink or rose to mauve, lavender, violet, lilac, or purple, yellowish-white basally, the tube ca. 8 mm long, narrow-cylindric, subpuberulent. Drupes fleshy, deep-pink, red, or magenta to purple or finally black.
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Distribution
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On grassy plains and slopes, burned-over savannas, and coastal banks, in clearings of forests, brushy second-growth, and cultivated ground, and along canals and roadsides, in shade or in full exposure to the sun, from Trinidad and Panama throughout northern South America to Peru and Paraguay.
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Common
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cariaquito morado maliz de zorro
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Common
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pajarito venturosa
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Note
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This species is often difficult to distinguish from Lantana trifolia fo. hirsuta, but in L. maxima the pubescence is mostly long and rather shaggy, stiffy spread- ing at right angles over all or at least the upper parts of the plant, and the leaf- blades are characteristically densely hairy beneath. In the southernmost parts of its range in South America it merges into L. fiebrigii Hayek.
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Specimen
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CHIRIQUI: Finca Lerida to Boquete, 1300-1700 m, Woodson et al. 1125 (NY). Llanos Francia, vicinity of Boquete, 3300 ft, Stern et al. 1190 (MO, US). Tole, Tyson et al. 4231 (MO). COCLE: Road to El Cope from Pan American Highway, Burch et al. 1386a (MO). PANAMA: Second growth and culled forest on SE slope, Cerro Trinidad, Kirkbride & Duke 1675 (US). SAN BLAS: Mainland Point opposite Isla Mosquito, Duke 8984 (BMIC, MO).
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