Lantana
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Authority
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
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Family
Verbenaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
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Description - Shrubs, or rarely herbs, with pubescent foliage, the stems sometimes armed with prickles. Leaves opposite, toothed. Flowers in dense peduncled heads or spikes. Calyx membranous, with a truncate or sinuate border. Corolla-tube slender, often curved, sometimes slightly dilated above, the limb more or less 2 -lipped, the lobes 4 or 5. Stamens 4, didynamous; filaments adnate to about the middle of the corolla-tube. Ovary 2-celled; stigma oblique; ovules solitary in each cavity. Fruit small, drupe-like. Nutlets 2-celled or separating into 2 one-seeded nutlets. ['Named from fancied similarity to Viburnum Lantana.] About 60 species, natives of tropical and warm regions. Type species: Lantana, Camara L.