Lantana

  • Authority

    Acevedo-Rodríguez, Pedro & collaborators. 1996. Flora of St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 78: 1-581.

  • Family

    Verbenaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Lantana

  • Description

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    Genus Description - Erect herbs or shrubs, sometimes with prickles. Leaves aromatic, simple, opposite or ternate, verticillate, petiolate, with entire, serrate, dentate, or crenate margins. Rowers bisexual, variously colored, sessile, subtended by a single bracteole, produced in axillary spikes or peduncled heads; calyx short-tubular, truncate, bilabiate or 4-5-toothed; corolla 4-merous, nearly trumpet-shaped, with spreading unequal lobes; stamens 4, the filaments in 2 pairs of unequal length, included; ovary bilocular, each locule with a single ovule, the style slender with an oblique stigma. Fruit drupaceous, with 2 1-seeded pyrenes.

    Distribution and Ecology - A genus of about 50 species, native to the tropics of the N e w World, introduced into the Old World.