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Lantana rugosa
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By road from Tuli to Hwali River bridge
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By road from Tuli to Hwali River bridge
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By road from Tuli to Hwali River bridge
Photo: Bart Wursten
Besna Kobila Estate, Matobo Hills area.
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Besna Kobila Estate, Matobo Hills area.
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| Synonyms: |
Camara salviifolia (Jacq.) Kuntze Lantana salviifolia Jacq. Lippia caffra Sond. Lippia lupuliformis Moldenke |
| Common names: | Small lantana (English) |
| Frequency: | |
| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
Woody perennial or small shrub, up to 2 m tall but usually smaller. Stems and branches 4-angled, with more or less appressed, tubercle-based hairs mixed with sessile glands. Leaves usually opposite, rarely 3-whorled, ovate, ovate-oblong or lanceolate, up to 7 cm long, rounded at the base and cuneate into the petiole, with whitish tubercle-based hairs above, becoming rough with age, covered in short stiff hairs beneath, mixed with minute reddish sessile glands; venation impressed above giving the leaf a wrinkled look; margin shallowly crenate. Inflorescences solitary in the leaf axils on peduncles mostly at least half as long as the subtending leaf, sometimes longer than the leaf, particularly in fruit. Spikes subspherical to ovoid, up to 2 cm long when flowering, extending to 3 cm in fruit. Floral bracts broadly ovate to ovate-lanceolate, up to 7.5 mm long, green, appressed hairy mixed with reddish sessile glands; veining becoming somewhat more prominent in fruiting spikes; margin revolute in the upper half. Corollas pale rose, lilac to reddish-purple or violet with a yellow throat, rarely white. Drupes 2.5-3.5 mm long,purple to wine-coloured when ripe. |
| Notes: | |
| Derivation of specific name: | rugosa: with a wrinkled surface (rugose). |
| Habitat: | In riverine vegetation, along margins of dams and vleis, in mopane and miombo woodland, grassland, alluvial soils, Kalahari sand and on rocky outcrops. |
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| Worldwide distribution: | Angola, Botswana, Namibia, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Lesotho, Eswatini and Mpumalanga, Free State, KwaZulu-Natal, and Eastern Cape, South Africa. |
| Botswana distribution: | N,SW,SE |
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| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Literature: |
Bandeira, S., Bolnick, D. & Barbosa, F. (2007). Wild Flowers of Southern Mozambique Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, Maputo, Mozambique Page 174. (Includes a picture). Chapano, C. & Mugarisanwa, N.H. (2003). Plants of the Matobo District National Herbarium and Botanic Garden, Zimbabwe Page 23. Drummond, R.B. (1975). A list of trees, shrubs and woody climbers indigenous or naturalised in Rhodesia. Kirkia 10(1) Page 271. Fernandes, R. (2005). Verbenaceae Flora Zambesiaca 8(7) Pages 20 - 21. Kirby, G. (2013). Wild Flowers of Southeast Botswana Struik Nature, Cape Town South Africa Page 297. (Includes a picture). Mapaura, A. & Timberlake, J. (eds) (2004). A checklist of Zimbabwean vascular plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 33 Sabonet, Pretoria and Harare Page 82. Phiri, P.S.M. (2005). A Checklist of Zambian Vascular Plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 32 Page 101. Setshogo, M.P. (2005). Preliminary checklist of the plants of Botswana. Sabonet Report no. 37. Sabonet, Pretoria and Gaborone Page 110. Siebert, S. & Mössmer, M. (Editors) (2002). SABONET Southern Mozambique Expedition 2001; Provisional Plant Checklist of the Maputo Elephant Reserve (MER) and Licuati Forest Reserve (LFR) SABONET News 7(1) Page 29. Timberlake, J.R. & Childes, S.L. (2004). Biodiversity of the Four Corners Area: Technical Reviews Volume Two (Chapter 5-15) Appendix 5-1: Plant Checklist Occasional Publications in Biodiversity 15 Page 228. |
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