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Genus: Lantana Life
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> Asterids > Euasterid I > Order:
Lamiales> Family:
Verbenaceae
About 150 species,
native to tropical America and Africa. There are seven indigenous species in
southern Africa, three species naturalised and a further two species that are cultivated in the region.
Species native to southern Africa
List from
Plants
of Southern Africa - an Online Checklist (SANBI),
Flora of Zimbabwe
and Flora of
Mozambique.
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Lantana angolensis
[= Lantana viburnoides]
See
Flora of Zimbabwe.
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Lantana dinteri |
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Lantana mearnsii |
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Lantana moldenkei
Recorded from Zimbabwe.
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Lantana ukambensis
[= Lantana rhodesiensis]
Recorded from Zimbabwe.
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Lantana rugosa |
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Lantana swynnertonii
Recorded from Zimbabwe and
Mozambique. See
Flora of Zimbabwe.
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Species naturalised in southern Africa
List from
Plants
of Southern Africa - an Online Checklist (SANBI) and
Flora of Zimbabwe.
Other species, cultivated in southern Africa
List from
Glen (2002).
Lantana montevidensis (Purple or
creeping lantana) Native from Brazil to Argentina. |
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Lantana viburnoides
Native from tropical Africa to Arabia. |
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Herbivores in southern Africa
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