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Magnoliopsida
Lantana L.
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Isla de Pascua
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Holotype for Lantana glandulosissima var. grandis Moldenke
Catalog Number: US 1180703
Collection: Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Botany
Preparation: Pressed specimen
Collector(s): W. R. Maxon & A. Valentine
Year Collected: 1923
Locality: Btwn Chagres batteries & Fort San Lorenzo, Fort Sherman MiLitary Reservation., Panama, Central America
- Holotype: Moldenke, H. N. 1982. Phytologia. 52: 230.
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Whole plant: Plant is boiled, and the water drunk as an anti-tuberculosis, by the Guyana Patamona. Plant is boiled with water and used for an herbal bath and for washing the skin as treatment for chicken pox or for measles, by the Guyana Patamona. Plant is boiled and the water used as an anti-pruritic, by the Guyana Patamona. Root: Root is boiled with water and drunk as an anti-asthmatic, by the Guyana Patamona.
Leaf: Leaf is used for a calmative, stimulant, insecticide, febrifuge, pectoral and grippe remedy; mixed with leaves of Hedychium coronarium as a febrifuge; a decoction, bath or infusion as a febrifuge specifically for children. Mixed with leaves of Cymbopogon citratus in a tea to treat colds, hypertension and malarial fever. Vulnerary; sudorific tea from leaves is slightly bitter, cephalic and carminative; fortifying bath is prepared from cooled and boiled leaves. Decoction of leaves is injected for inflammations of the uterus. In a preparation inhaled for asthma. Leaves ingested for colic. In remedies for scabies, skin rashes, swellings, contusions, stomach pain, rheumatism, antiseptic on cuts, and in Surinam Saramaccan herbal baths. Leaves are boiled, and the water drunk as an anti-asthmatic, anti-malarial, anti-pyretic and as a treatment for whooping cough or for back pain, by the Guyana Patamona. Leaves are boiled, and the water used for washing the skin as a treatment for cold sweat or the water drunk for treating colds or coughs, by the Guyana Patamona. Macerated leaves are boiled with water and used for treating “bush yaws” and sores, by the Guyana Patamona. Leaf and Flower: In Guyana, a bitter tea made from the leaves and buds is used for treating influenza, and to cleanse the blood. Infusion with honey and tafia for coughs and pains. Used for coughs and colds, hemorrhage, and treating sores in NW Guyana. Part unspecified: Used as an anti-malarial by Amerindians at Kurupukari, Guyana.
Distribution: A native of trop. America, widely introduced and naturalized in many tropical and subtropical regions.
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Recolector del tipo: CT: (LINN-783.4). LT designated by Moldenke & Moldenke, Rev. Handb. Fl. Ceylon 4: 220 (1983); CT proposed by Jarvis, Taxon 41: 564 (1992).
Indigenous Information: The young stem is used as toothsticks. Fruits edible. Young leaves are used to cure fever. Sloth bear and monkeys observed eating the fruits.
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Himalaya (Nepal), India, Burma, China, Indo-China, Malaya. Native of America, widely naturalised in Nepal, India and other parts of Asia.
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"Most aggressive weed of disturbed ground. Plains from the coast to the hills. Native of tropical America, widely naturalized in tropics and subtropics."
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Flower attracts butterflies and moths. Birds disperse the seeds.
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Flower
In axillary dense spikes; brick red (plains) to pink (hills). Flowering throughout the year.
Fruit
A globose drupe, ripening dark black or blue; seed 1, reticulate. Fruiting throughout the year.
Field tips
Stem 4-angular, prickly.
Leaf Arrangement
Opposite-decussate
Leaf Type
Simple
Leaf Shape
Ovate-oblong
Leaf Apex
Acute
Leaf Base
Cuneate, rounded, cordate
Leaf Margin
Crenulate-crenate
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