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Lantana rugosa
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By road from Tuli to Hwali River bridge
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By road from Tuli to Hwali River bridge
Photo: Bart Wursten
By road from Tuli to Hwali River bridge
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| Synonyms: |
Camara salviifolia (Jacq.) Kuntze Lantana salviifolia Jacq. Lippia caffra Sond. Lippia lupuliformis Moldenke |
| Common names: | Small lantana (English) |
| Frequency: | |
| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
Woody perennial or small shrub, up to 2 m tall but usually smaller. Stems and branches 4-angled, with more or less appressed, tubercle-based hairs mixed with sessile glands. Leaves usually opposite, rarely 3-whorled, ovate, ovate-oblong or lanceolate, up to 7 cm long, rounded at the base and cuneate into the petiole, with whitish tubercle-based hairs above, becoming rough with age, covered in short stiff hairs beneath, mixed with minute reddish sessile glands; venation impressed above giving the leaf a wrinkled look; margin shallowly crenate. Inflorescences solitary in the leaf axils on peduncles mostly at least half as long as the subtending leaf, sometimes longer than the leaf, particularly in fruit. Spikes subspherical to ovoid, up to 2 cm long when flowering, extending to 3 cm in fruit. Floral bracts broadly ovate to ovate-lanceolate, up to 7.5 mm long, green, appressed hairy mixed with reddish sessile glands; veining becoming somewhat more prominent in fruiting spikes; margin revolute in the upper half. Corollas pale rose, lilac to reddish-purple or violet with a yellow throat, rarely white. Drupes 2.5-3.5 mm long,purple to wine-coloured when ripe. |
| Notes: | |
| Derivation of specific name: | rugosa: with a wrinkled surface or rugose. |
| Habitat: | In riverine vegetation, along margins of dams and vleis, in mopane and miombo woodland, grassland, alluvial soils, Kalahari sand and on rocky outcrops. |
| Altitude range: | 100 - 1550 m |
| Flowering time: | |
| Worldwide distribution: | Angola, Botswana, Namibia, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Lesotho, Swaziland and Mpumalanga, Free State, KwaZulu-Natal, and Eastern Cape, South Africa. |
| Mozambique distribution: | GI,M |
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| Endemic status: | |
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| Insects (whose larvae eat this species): | |
| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Literature: |
Fernandes, R. (2005). Verbenaceae FZ 8(7) Pages 20 - 21. Mapaura, A & Timberlake, J. (eds) (2004). A checklist of Zimbabwean vascular plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 33 Sabonet, Pretoria and Harare Page 82. Phiri, P.S.M. (2005). A Checklist of Zambian Vascular Plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 32 Page 101. |
Other sources of information about Lantana rugosa:
African Plant Database: Lantana rugosaBiodiversity Explorer (Biodiversity of southern Africa): Lantana rugosa
ePIC (electronic Plant Information Center): Lantana rugosa
Flora Zambesiaca web site: Lantana rugosa
Google: Web - Images - Scholar
GRIN (Germplasm Resources Information Network) taxonomy for plants report for Lantana rugosa
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Lantana rugosa
JSTOR Plant Science: Lantana rugosa
Kew Herbarium catalogue: Lantana rugosa
Tropicos: Lantana rugosa
West African Plants database: Lantana rugosa
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