Lantana camara L.
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Lantana camara L.
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Lantana camara
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Lantana camara L.
Aromatic shrub; stems upright to spreading, or almost scrambling to c. 2-(3) m high, usually with recurved prickles. Petioles to 2 cm long. Lamina 3-13 × 1.5-7 cm, ovate or oblong-ovate, crenate or crenate-serrate, densely hispidulous or scabrid above, the hairs usually dense but soft below; glandular scales minute; base cuneate to subcordate; apex acute to short-acuminate. Infls corymbose; fls fragrant. Peduncles 3-10 cm long, moderately slender; bracts 1/4-3/4 length of corolla tube, linear-lanceolate, densely hairy but eglandular. Calyx 1.5-2.5 mm long, ciliate. Corolla densely puberulent outside; tube c. 1 cm long, narrow-cylindric; limb 6-10-(14) mm diam., when fresh, rather flat except for ± recurved lobes, usually initially cream or pale yellow, changing to pink to rose, rarely deep yellow or orange. Drupe c. 5 mm diam., globular, black or blue-black.
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1 January 2000
24 September 2015