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tube, 1.5 to 2.5 cm long, slender, greenish-red, 5-lobed, lobes up to 1 cm long, deep red
to scarlet or crimson distally, the limb spreading or reflexed, to 2 cm broad; stamens and
style, long-exserted, pale green; fruit, a drupe, glossy, black, with a brilliant red aril
uniting the 4 pyrenes; seeds, 4, nutlets. Planted ornamental. 3(58794), 5, 6, 7(27817).
Duranta repens L. "golden dewdrops", "golden eardrops"
D. erecta L. ; D. plumieri Jacq.
Recent introduction. Trop. America. Rare. Erect perennial shrub or small tree, up
to 4 m or higher, with slender, arching, drooping or trailing branchlets and sometimes
bearing axillary or suppressed spines; leaves, 1.5 to 7 cm long and 0.5 to 4 cm wide,
opposite or in whorls of 3, elliptic or ovate, rarely elliptic-obovate, obtuse to acute to
acuminate or apiculate, base cuneate, entire or distally serrate, usually thin-textured,
glabrate on both surfaces; petioles, 1 to 8 mm long, slender; inflorescences, axillary or
terminal, erect or recurved, loose, many-flowered paniculate clusters or racemes, 5 to 30
cm long; pedicels, 1 to 5 mm long; bracteoles, minute or occasionally subfoliaceous;
calyx, 3 to 4.5 mm long at anthesis, tubular, angular, minutely toothed or subulate;
corolla, about 8 mm long, surpassing calyx by about 2 to 5 mm, tubular, 5-lobed, 7 to
14 mm across the limb, pale purple to bluish-purple, 2 slightly smaller lobes with a
purple stripe and 3 slightly larger plain lobes, fragrant, puberulent on both surfaces;
stamens 4; fruit, 6 to 12 mm in diameter, a globose, 8-seeded drupe, juicy, yellow to
orange, enclosed by the enlarged, curved-beaked, yellowish calyx. Planted ornamental. 5,
6, 7.
Lantana camara L. var. aculeata (L.) Mold.
magiroa (N); te kai buaka (K); kaipuaka (T)
"lantana"
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Pre-World War I1 introduction . Trop. America. Occasional. Erect or rambling,
more or less pungent-odorous, perennial shrub, 1 to 5 m high, the stems and branches
usually armed with short, recurved prickles; leaves, 2 to 12 cm long and 2 to 6 cm wide,
opposite, decussate or whorled, ovate to oblong-ovate, acute to short-acuminate, base
abruptly rounded and cuneate, crenate-serrate, stiff chartaceous, reticulate-rugose and
scabrous above, downy or hispid,below, pinnately nerved, spicy pungent if rubbed;
petioles 0.7 to 2 cm long; inflorescences, axillary, crowded, hemispherical, manyflowered,
corymbose heads, 2 to 4 cm across; peduncle, 2 to 9 cm long, slender;
bracteoles, 4 to 9 mm long and 1 to 1.5 cm wide, oblong to lanceolate, acute to subulate
at apex; calyx, about 3 mm long, 2-lobed, inconspicuous; corolla, 10 to 12 mm long,
tubular or hypocrateriform, 4 to 5-lobed, 5 to 8 mm across the limb, pubescent internally
_)-) white pink, orange and red with a darker ey-e, the youngest flowers central, pale, the--_older
flowers orange, the oldest ones red (or white); stamens 4; fruit, 3 to 4 mm in
diameter, a fleshy, slightly juicy drupe, purple-black; seeds 1, a 2-celled pyrene with an
air cavity between the cells. Planted ornamental; naturalized in ruderal sites and in
unmined open plateau forest; occasional in older revegetated strip-mined sites. Flowers