7145.000 Lippia
Ilunga wa Ilunga, E. & Meerts, P. (2024) Verbenaceae Flore d'Afrique Centrale Nouvelle Serie Jardin Botanique Meise, Belgique
Description of the genus
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. Derivation of name: after A. Lippi (1678-1705) a French naturalist with Italian origins Worldwide: c. 200 species in tropical America and Africa Malawi: 5 taxa. |
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| Species | FZ divisions | Content |
| baumii Gürke var. nyassensis R. Fern. [End] | N | |
| javanica (Burm.f.) Spreng. | N,C,S | Description, Image |
| plicata Baker | N,C,S | Description, Image |
| praecox Mildbr. ex Moldenke var. nyikensis (R. Fern.) G.V. Pope [End] | N | |
| woodii Moldenke | Description, Image |
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