Lantana
Inflorescences of Lantana variety ( Lantana camara )
The lantana ( Lantana, Syn: .. Kamara Adans, Riedelia Cham ) is a plant genus of the family of the verbena family ( Verbenaceae ).
Description
In Lantana species are mostly woody plants: shrubs or climbing plants; rarely small trees or herbaceous plants. Often the plants are rough or slightly prickly.
The always simple, stalked leaves are opposite, sometimes lively and three to four, located at the quadrangular when young, branches. The leaf margin is often notched, and the leaf blade is heavily wrinkled in most species.
The flowers are in dense heads, the individual flowers are more than short-stalked, oval to lance-shaped and the bract rises above the small, skin-like sepals. The calyx is short. The corolla is almost radial symmetry and very slightly two-lipped; they may be lobed or four - fünfzählig. On colors of the petals almost everything seems: white, yellow, red, blue and violet. Some species also have two colored crowns. Often the corolla discolored with age, with some species more than once. It's just a circle with four stamens present. The stamp does not protrude from the corolla tube.
There are one-to two-seeded drupes are formed, they are red when ripe, purple to metallic black. They spread by birds.
Dissemination
Most of the approximately 150 species come from tropical and sub-tropical America, a few also from tropical Africa and South Africa. Some species have been kidnapped but to warmer areas in the world.
Types (selection)
- Lantana ( Lantana camara L.)
- Lantana indica Roxb.
- Lantana involucrata L.
- Lantana montevidensis ( Spreng. ) Briq.
- Lantana rugulosa Kunth
- Lantana tiliifolia Cham.
- Lantana trifolia L.
Pictures
Lantana montevidensis