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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 trifolia L.
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Sp. P1. 626. 1753.
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Synonym
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Lippia purpurea Armano ex Dum. Cours., Bot. Cult., ed. 2. 7: 131. 1814. Lantana pilosa H.B.K., Nov. Gen. Sp. P1., ed. folio. 2: 210. 1817. Lantana celtidifolia H.B.K., loc. cit. 2: 210. 1817. Lantana albo-purpurea Desf., Cat. Hort. Paris, ed. 3. 292. 1829. Camara trifolia (L.) Kuntze, Rev. Gen. P1. 1: 504. 1891. Camara trifolia var. normalis Kuntze, loc. cit. 1: 504. 1891. Lantana trifolia var. vulgata Briq., Annuaire Conserv. Jard. Bot. Geneve 7/8: 303. 1904.
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Description
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Perennial herbs with woody underground stems or subshrubs to 2.5 m high; stems usually appressed-pubescent or strigose, the trichomes short and closely appressed or subappressed to the upper part of the stems. Leaves mostly ternate, usually membranous, oblong-lanceolate to elliptic-lanceolate or ovate, petiolate, 5-12 cm long, acute or acuminate apically, crenate-serrate, attenuate basally and decurrent into the petiole, often reticulate-rugose above and scabrous or more or less strigose-pubescent, densely resinous-punctate and scattered-puberulent or -strigillose beneath. Inflorescences spicate, subcapitate when young, later cylin- dric and elongating to 4.5 cm long, densely many-flowered; spikes at first sub- globose, 1-1.5 cm in diameter; peduncles slender, usually shorter than or equaling the subtending leaves, 2-10.5 cm long, densely strigose-pubescent, solitary in each leaf-axil; bractlets herbaceous, green, lanceolate or ovate, the lowest to 10 mm long and 3 mm wide, cuspidate-acuminate apically, 5-nerved, strigose above, loosely imbricate, the upper with the cusp about equaling the corolla-tube. Flowers with the corolla pink, lavender, lilac, or purple, the tube 5-6 mm long. Drupes fleshy, purple or lavender, 2-3 mm in diameter.
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Habit
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herbs
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Distribution
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In hedges, thickets, and well-drained grasslands; widely distributed through- out tropical America from Mexico and Cuba to Argentina, Bolivia, and Peru; polymorphic and variable.
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Specimen
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BOCAS DEL TORO: Almirante, along road to "Bomba," Blum 1333 (MO). Bocas del Toro, Carleton 148 (NY). Up the hill from "Bomba," W of Almirante, Blum 1412 (MO). Edge of river and railway and adjacent rainforest, Changuinola and Teribe, 100-200 ft, Lewis et al. 838 (LL). Vicinity of Chiriqui Lagoon, von Wedel 1303 (MO). Isla Colon, von Wedel 2962 (MO). Old Bank Island, von Wedel 2072 (MO). Water Valley, von Wedel 1643, 2659 (both MO). CANAL ZONE: Vicinity of Miraflores Lake, White 146 (MO, NY). CHIuQUI': Pastures and forested riverbanks E of Gualaca, 500 ft, Allen 5037 (MO).
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