- Family : VERBENACEAE
(Verbena Or Vervain Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : SAGVAN FAMILY (सागवान फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : Verbenaceae
- Basionym : Lantana alba Mill.
- Synonym(s) : Camara alba (Mill.) Kuntze; Lantana alba Mill.; Lantana alba f. rubella Moldenke; Lantana cuneatifolia Klotzsch ex Walp.; Lantana geminata (Kunth) Spreng.; Lantana lippioides Hook. & Arn.; Lantana malabarica Hayek; Lantana mollissima Desf.; Lantana odorata (Pers.) Weigelt ex Cham.; Lippia alba var. carterae Moldenke; Lippia alba var. globiflora (L'Hér.) Moldenke
- Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Lippia alba (Mill.) N.E.Br. ex Britton & P.Wilson
- Habit : Shrub
- Habitat : Roadsides and wastelands, also in the plains
- Key identification features : Gregarious shrubs, strongly aromatic; branches hairy; Leaves ovate-lanceolate or lanceolate, acute, crenulate or crenate-serrate, rugose, pubescent beneath; Inflorescence subcapitate spike; Flowers pink, fragrant; Fruits dry, splitting into 1-2 seeded pyrenes.
- Flower, Fruit : Throughout the year
- Distribution :
- Kerala : Alappuzha district
- Arunachal Pradesh : Arunachal Pradesh
- Native : Argentina, Bahamas, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Cayman Islands, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Florida, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Leeward Islands, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panamá, Paraguay,
- Exotic/Native : Intoduced
- Literature :
- Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI.
- G.S Giri., A.Pramanik., H.J. Chowdhery., G.D Pal and S.K. Das (2008). Materials for Arunachal Pradesh, Vol (2), Pg: 267
- Read more :
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Lippia alba. Downloaded on 7 September 2024.
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India Distribution
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World Distribution
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