Lantana swynnertonii Moldenke

Species

Angiosperms > Lamiales > Verbenaceae > Lantana

Characteristics

Leaves usually all 3-whorled, less often also opposite or 4-whorled in the same plant, more rarely all opposite, petiolate; lamina (2)3–5.5(7.5) × (1)2–3.5(5.5) cm, ovate to broadly ovate or lanceolate, acute at the apex, rounded at the base and sometimes the middle part of the rounded base cuneate and somewhat decurrent into the petiole, closely crenate or crenate-serrate on the margins and 16–24 shallowly toothed on each side, somewhat coriaceous when mature becoming rigid when dry, deep green, concolorous or somewhat darker above, hispid on upper surface with ± scattered tubercle-based bristles, becoming ± scabrid with the tubercle-bases persisting in older leaves, hispidulous-pubescent to somewhat tomentose beneath with bristles mainly on the raised venation, indumentum intermixed with sessile glands; venation somewhat impressed above and raised beneath; petiole 0.5–0.7 cm long.
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Flowering spikes 1–2(2.5) cm in diameter, hemispheric, elongating and ± cylindrical in fruit; lower bracts 5–8(10) × 3–5(6) mm, ovate or lanceolate to elliptic, acute to acuminate-cuspidate at apex, flat on the margins, appressed pubescent on both surfaces; upper bracts successively smaller and ± lanceolate, acuminate-cuspidate at apex; spike-axes 1–3.3(5) cm long and slender in fruit with closely-spaced scars.
Peduncles 1 per leaf axil, slender, ascending, hispid-pubescent with bristles usually spreading, (4)6–12.5(14.5) cm long at anthesis, usually 1.5–2.5 times longer than the subtending leaf, rarely shorter than the leaf, increasing to 14.5 cm long in fruit.
Branches usually simple with internodes 3–10 cm long; hispid with long white ± patent tubercle-based hairs, or ± weakly strigose with ± short tubercle-based hairs usually curving or ± appressed antrorse, usually with sessile glands intermixed.
Corolla pinkish-mauve to purplish, greatly exceeding the bracts especially in the upper flowers; tube 5–7.5(8) mm long, ± ventricose; lower lip 4–5.5(6) mm broad.
Calyx c. 1.5 mm long, cylindric, truncate, thinly membranous and appressed puberulous.
Shrub up to 2.5 m tall, or bushy subshrub to 1.5 m.
Drupes 2–3 mm long, bright purple.
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Mature height (meter) 2.5
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Germination duration (days) 42 - 60
Germination temperacture (C°) 21 - 23
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Germination treatment soaking
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Conservation status

Lantana swynnertonii threat status: Least Concern

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:863463-1
WFO ID wfo-0000223419
COL ID 99PP9
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Synonyms

Lantana swynnertonii