Lantana montevidensis (Spreng.) Briq.

Taxonomy: Plantae > Tracheophyta > Magnoliopsida > Lamiales > Verbenaceae > Lantana > L. montevidensis

Description: Horizontally growing scandent undershrub 3-10 ft long with a slender stem, which may not root at nodes. Branches are 4-angular form dense thickets or mats of about 1 ft, with thick rigid hairs. Leaves opposite, simple, ovate-oblong, 1-3 x 0.5-1.5 cm across, base truncate or rounded, margin dentate, apex acute, coarse chartaceous, rough with very short rigid hairs, lower surface covered with soft white hairs slightly lighter and has yellow glands, aromatic, lateral veins 4-6 on either side of the midrib, Petiole about 0.3-0.8 cm long, exstipulate. Inflorescence cylindric spike, head or subumbellate, axillary 1 x 1-2.5 cm, Peduncle slender 1-7 cm long, Bracts ovate about 5 mm long. Flowers: sessile, zygomorphic, Calyx copular, subentire, membranous pubescent. Corolla hypocrateriform, 4-5 lobed, 2 lipped, yellow, white, purple lower and midlobes subrotund, lateral lobes obtuse, Corolla tube narrow curved, pubescent. Stamens 4, didynamous, filaments about 1 mm long, anthers yellowish, ovoid about 0.5 mm long, Ovary conical about 1 mm long, style stout about 3 mm long, stigma obliquely subcapitate. Fruit drupe ovoid or ellipsoid, about 0.3-0.4 mm in diameter, green and fleshy reddish brown when ripe.

Flowering and Fruiting : Blooms throughout the year

Uses: Used as an ornamental

Cultivation : Cultivated

References

http://www.plantsoftheworldonline.org

https://indiabiodiversity.org