Lippia L.

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Diagnostic:

Habit: Shrub

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Rights holder/Author"G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram", India Biodiversity Portal
Sourcehttp://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/266128

Associations:

In Great Britain and/or Ireland:
Foodplant / saprobe
scattered, black pycnidium of Diplodina coelomycetous anamorph of Diplodina aloysiae is saprobic on dead twig (thin) of Aloysia citriodora
Remarks: season: 7-3

Foodplant / saprobe
scattered, immersed pycnidium of Phomopsis coelomycetous anamorph of Phomopsis citriodora is saprobic on dead, locally white spotted stem of Aloysia citriodora
Remarks: season: 6-7

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Sourcehttp://www.bioimages.org.uk/html/Aloysia_citriodora.htm

National NatureServe Conservation Status:
United States

Rounded National Status Rank: NNA - Not Applicable

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Description:

Erect shrubs, subshrubs or perennial herbs. Leaves opposite or in whorls of 3-4. Flowers small, sessile, in mostly pedunculate dense heads or spikes which sometimes elongate in fruit, 1-several heads per axil; each flower supported by a bract. Corolla white, greenish or creamy yellow; tube cylindric or funnel-shaped; limb ± 2-lipped. Stamens 4. Ovary 2-locular. Fruit dry, surrounded by the appressed calyx, separating into 2 pyrenes when mature.

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Rights holder/AuthorMark Hyde, Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings, Flora of Zimbabwe
Sourcehttp://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/genus.php?genus_id=1203

NatureServe Conservation Status:

Rounded Global Status Rank: GNR - Not Yet Ranked

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Miscellaneous Details:

"Notes: Western Ghats, Cultivated, Native of Tropical America"

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Rights holder/Author"G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram", India Biodiversity Portal
Sourcehttp://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/266157

Stem and Leaf: In French Guiana, a decoction is used in a lotion to remedy "pian rouge", a form of yaws.

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Rights holder/AuthorSmithsonian Institution, Robert A. DeFilipps, Shirley L. Maina, Juliette Crepin, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History Department of Botany
Sourcehttp://botany.si.edu/bdg/medicinal/index.html

Statistics of barcoding coverage:

Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) Stats
Specimen Records:44
Specimens with Sequences:85
Specimens with Barcodes:45
Species:11
Species With Barcodes:9
Public Records:11
Public Species:5
Public BINs:0

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Rights holder/AuthorSujeevan Ratnasingham, Paul D.N. Hebert, Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD)
Sourcehttp://www.boldsystems.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=204676

Common Names:

French Guiana: citronnelle. Guyana: lemon verbena.

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Rights holder/AuthorSmithsonian Institution, Robert A. DeFilipps, Shirley L. Maina, Juliette Crepin, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History Department of Botany
Sourcehttp://botany.si.edu/bdg/medicinal/index.html

Barcode data:

Access Published & Released Data: Download FASTA File

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