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Lantana
camara L.
Synonym
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Camara vulgaris
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Family
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Verbenaceae
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Local name
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English
- Lantana
Malayalam
- Arippoochedi
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Flowering and fruiting period
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April-June
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Distribution
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Native of Tropical America, widely naturalised in the
tropics and subtropics
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Distribution in kerala
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All Districts
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Habitat
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Introduced as ornamental plant; now naturalised as weed
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Endemic/Exotic
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Exotic
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Uses
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Lantana leaves can
display antimicrobial, fungicidal and insecticidal properties.
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Key
Botanical Characters :
Much branched scandent
shrubs; stem 4-angled, armed with short thorns. Leaves simple, opposite, 3-6
x 2-4 cm, ovate or elliptic-ovate, apex acute to shortly acuminate, base
subcordate or truncate, margin creneate-serrate, scabrous above, puberulous
below, veins impressed above; petiole to 1.5 cm long. Inflorescence terminal
and axillary condensed spikes; peduncle 3-4 cm long, shortly prickly.Flowers
sessile, orangish-red, changing to deep red on ageing; bracts closely imbricating.Calyx
truncate.Corolla salver-shaped; tube 0.8-1 cm long, slender, cylindric, bent
and inflated over stamens; lobes 5, obscurely 2-lipped. Stamens 4
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