• Family : VERBENACEAE
  (Verbena Or Vervain Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : SAGVAN FAMILY (सागवान फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : VERBENACEAE
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Lantana veronicifolia Hayek
• Habit : Undershrub
• Habitat : Plains and foothills
• Comments / notes : Occasional along the foothills across the ghats
• Flower, Fruit : May-February
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Kurnool district, Guntur district
  • Karnataka : Kolar district
  • Tamil Nadu : Salem district (Salem district), Sirumalai Hills (Dindigul district)
• Native : India
• Endemism : Peninsular India
• World Distribution : India
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2011 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 4; Karuppusamy 2014; N.P.Singh, 1988. Flora of Eastern Karnataka; Matthew, K.M., The Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (1). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983.
• Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Raja K Swamy, Deepak Kumar, Arun Singh R. and K. Gopalakrishna Bhat (2019). Flora of Peninsular India. http://peninsula.ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Lantana wightiana. Downloaded on 14 November 2024.

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