Lantana L.
EOL Text
United States
Origin: Exotic
Regularity: Regularly occurring
Currently: Unknown/Undetermined
Confidence: Confident
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Arbusto, hasta 3 m de altura.
Ramas con o sin aguijones, hirsutas; hojas opuestas o ternadas, ovado-oblongas, de 1,5-9,5 por 2-4,5 cm, aserradas, ápice acuminado, base redondeada y decurrente o casi cordada, pubescentes; pecíolos de 5 a 15 mm de largo. Inflorescencias en cabezuelas; pedúnculos de 3 a 10 cm de largo; brácteas lanceoladas o espatuladas, de setosas a pubescentes; cáliz de 2 a 3 mm de largo, de truncado a sinuado-dentado; corola con el tubo de 5 a 12 mm de largo, limbo de 3 a 10 mm de largo, amarilla, anaranjada o rojo purpúreo. Frutos negro-azul al madurar.Unripe fruit contains belladone alkaloids causing intoxication in children, and lantadenes A and B (triterpenic acids) causing gastrointestinal or liver problems and photosensitivity. Lantana poisoning in an animal may damage its liver, gall bladder, and kidneys. Seed-oil is anthelmintic. Leaf contains lantanine.
"Maharashtra: Ahemdnagar, Pune, Thane Karnataka: Belgaum, Chikmagalur,Hassan, Mysore, N. Kanara, Shimoga, S. Kanara Kerala: All districts Tamil Nadu: All districts"
Holotype for Lantana horrida f. inermis Moldenke
Catalog Number: US 571793
Collection: Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Botany
Preparation: Pressed specimen
Collector(s): G. Gaumer
Locality: Yucatán, Mexico, North America
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The following is a representative barcode sequence, the centroid of all available sequences for this species.
"Most aggresive weed of disturbed ground from plains to the hills. Native of tropical America, widely naturalised in tropics and subtropics."
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Isotype for Lantana scandens Moldenke
Catalog Number: US 1824989
Collection: Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Botany
Verification Degree: Original publication and alleged type specimen examined
Preparation: Pressed specimen
Collector(s): G. B. Hinton
Year Collected: 1938
Locality: Pto. del Aire, Villa Victoria., Coalcoman, Michoacán, Mexico, North America
- Isotype: Moldenke, H. N. 1941. Phytologia. 2: 18.
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Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLDS) Stats
Public Records: 11
Specimens with Barcodes: 56
Species With Barcodes: 1
Nile region (Aswan).
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