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Lantana montevidensis

(Spreng.) Briq. (1904)

This name is accepted

Kingdom: Viridiplantae Phylum: Magnoliophyta Class/Clade: Eudicot-Asterids Order: Lamiales Family: Verbenaceae Genus: Lantana

trailing lantana, weeping lantana

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Description

Key Characters:

Growth Form: Malodorous, low subshrubs.

Stems: Stems lax and sprawling or decumbent, up to 4 m long, mat–forming and usually many branched, without prickles.

Roots: Rooting at nodes that touch the ground.

Leaves: Leaves simple. Opposite and decussate (pairs of leaves alternating 90 degrees between nodes) or ternate. Blades ovate to lanceolate or oblong–rhombic, 1.2–3.5 cm long, 0.8–1.6 cm wide. Upper surfaces reticulate–rugose and scabrous or hirsute; lower surfaces strigose on veins or densely tomentulose and densely resinous–glandular, blades fragrant when bruised. Margins crenate–serrate. Petioles 0.3–0.6 cm long. Stipules absent.

Flowers: Flowers in capitate, hemispherical heads arising in the leaf axils, much longer than subtending leaves; inflorescences becoming oblong in fruit; Peduncles filiform, 2–6 cm long, outer bracts broadly ovate to oblong–ovate, 5–8 mm long, inner ones conspicuously smaller. Flowers bisexual (perfect). Each flower subtended by an oblong to lanceolate or ovate bract. Calyx ca. 2 mm long. Corolla magenta or lilac to rose or purple, salverform, the tube 8–10 mm long, the lobes 3.5–8 mm long, imbricate. Stamens 4, in 2 pairs, inserted near middle of and included in corolla tube; anthers dithecal, opening by longitudinal slits. Ovary superior, 1-carpellate, 2-celled, placentation axile; ovules 1 per cell, erect, anatropous; style short; stigma thick, oblique or nearly lateral.

Fruit: Fruit dark violet; globose; drupaceous; ca. 4 mm in diameter. Seeds 1 per cell.

Ploidy: 2n = 36 (sterile) or 48 (wild form)

Habitat:

Elevation Range:

Historical Distribution

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Uses and Culture

USES

  • Yes

Natural History

Statewide Status

Naturalized

Island Status

Kaua'i Naturalized
O'ahu Only found in cultivation
Lana'i Naturalized
Maui Potentially naturalizing
Hawai'i Only found in cultivation

Dispersal Agents

Water/Ocean
Birds
Other Animals

Vegetative Reproduction

Pollinators

Notes

  • Description digitized by Joanne
  • Description digitized from the Manual of the Flowering Plants of Hawaii
  • first naturalized collection made in 1986

Bibliography

Name Published In: Annuaire Conserv. Jard. Bot. Genève 7-8: 301 (1904)

Other References

Wagner et al. 1990:1320 (L); Lorence et al. 1995:55 (K); Staples & Herbst 2005:564 (DESCR)

Occurrences

SNo. Scientific Name Locality Habitat Basis of Record Description Recorded By Record Number Island Source Date
1 Lantana montevidensis U.of Hawaii; Preserved_Specimen Krajina, V.J. Oahu BISH 1962-04-09
2 Lantana montevidensis W Maui, Lahaina District, Honokahua, Honoapiilani Hwy near Office Rd Growing on steep roadcut. Preserved_Specimen Prostrate plants w. purple flowers. Oppenheimer, H.L. 30121 Maui BISH 2001-03-13
3 Lantana montevidensis Honolulu, Kamehameha Girls' School Preserved_Specimen Judd Jr., A.F. Oahu BISH 1937-09-25
4 Lantana montevidensis Honolulu: Manoa Valley; University of Hawaii Manoa Campus Preserved_Specimen Krajina, V.J. Oahu BISH 1962-02-16
5 Lantana montevidensis Lanai City common, naturalized in weedy sites Preserved_Specimen Nagata, K.M. 3497 Lanai BISH 1986-06-02
6 Lantana montevidensis Honolulu: Manoa Valley; University of Hawaii Manoa Campus, Korean Studies Center in a bed; full sun Preserved_Specimen low, sprawling shrub. The foliage is fragrant. The corolla is mauve with canary withi the corolla tube and with a white ring between the canary and mauve. Lau, J. 1112 Oahu BISH 1985-06-18
7 Lantana montevidensis Lanai City, Queen's St., in abandoned scrub area on mauka side of road. Widespread in Lani City Naturalized. Growing with Olea europaea subsp. cuspidata, Eugenia uniflora, and Tithonia diversifolia. Preserved_Specimen Starr, F. 7040301 Lanai BISH 2007-04-03
8 Lantana montevidensis U.of Hawaii, #267 on map Preserved_Specimen aromatic, scandent shrub with purple flowers Herbst, D.R. 584 Oahu BISH 1967-09-10
9 Lantana montevidensis U.of Hawaii; Preserved_Specimen Low, vine-like shrub, fls lavender with magenta throat Fosberg, F.R. 8817 Oahu BISH 1932-09-12
10 Lantana montevidensis U.of Hawaii Preserved_Specimen Flower pink throat, white ringed and yellow within; small shrub, border plant St.John, H. 10514 Oahu BISH 1930-04-28
11 Lantana montevidensis Hawaii National Park, Park Residence Area Preserved_Specimen shrub 1', spreading; fls. lavender Fagerlund, G.O. 115 Hawaii BISH 1942-11-02
12 Lantana montevidensis Kokee area, Waimea canyon rim, old Porter house location Acacia ko-Medtrosideros Preserved_Specimen Shrub 1 meter height with purple flowers Perlman, S. 22462 Kauai BISH 2011-03-15
13 Lantana montevidensis U.of Hawaii, Gilmore Hall Preserved_Specimen trailing shrub; 1 - .5 m high; fl. lavender Woolford, H.A. Oahu BISH 1956-01-23
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