Lantana montevidensis (Cultivated)

Lantana montevidensis (Spreng.) Briq., Annuaire Conserv. Jard. Bot. Genève 7-8: 301 1904. (syn: Camara montevidensis (Spreng.) Kuntze; Camara sellowiana (Link & Otto) Kuntze; Lantana decumbens Sellow ex A.DC.; Lantana delicatissima Poit.; Lantana montevidensis f. albiflora Moldenke; Lantana selloi Steud. [Spelling variant]; Lantana sellowiana Link & Otto; Lantana sellowiana var. lanceolata Hook.; Lantana sellowiana f. planifolia Cham.; Lantana sellowiana f. rugosa Cham.; Lippia montevidensis Spreng.);

S. Trop. America as per WCSP;

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Common name: Trailing lantana, Weeping lantana, Creeping lantana, {Samballei, Nongballei, Thirei} (Manipuri), Raimu niya राईमुनिया (Hindi), உன்னிச்செடி Unnichedi (Tamil), तणतणी tantani (Marathi)

Lantana montevidensis is a species of lantana known by many common names, such as: trailing lantana, weeping lantana, creeping lantana, small lantana, purple lantana or trailing shrubverbena.

This lantana is native to South America.

Lantana montevidensis is a small strongly scented flowering low shrub with oval-shaped green leaves. With support it has a climbing ‘vine‘ form, when on edge a trailing form, and on the flat a groundcover form..

The inflorescence is a circular head of several purple to lavender to white funnel-shaped flowers with lobed corollas each nearly a centimeter wide. Reports of yellow flowered Lantana montevidensis are based on the misidentification of Lantana depressa var. depressa, a Florida endemic taxon more closely related to Lantana camara.^[1]

The fruit consists of a pair of nutlets surrounded by flesh somewhat like a berry.

Lantana montevidensis is also cultivated as an ornamental plant for its plentiful colorful lavender to purple flowers and as a drought tolerant groundcover, woody vine, and trailing plant for containers and in the ground.

In temperate climates there are flowers most the year, with yellow blooming and variegated leaved cultivars also available.

The plant is present nearly worldwide as an introduced species of garden and landscape plant, and in some areas, such as parts of Australia and Hawaii, now a noxious weed and invasive species. This plant is toxic to livestock.

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Lantana montevidensis from California-GS19102020-1 : 1 post by 1 author. Attachments (4)

Lantana montevidensis

Common name: Trailing Lantana

A very distinctive species with trailing habit, smaller leaves and small clusters of purple flowers with large broadly ovate bracts.

Also included is image with comparison of leaves and flower clusters with two cultivars of Lantana camara, ‘Gold Mound’ and ‘Red Dallas’

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Lamiaceae (Incl. Verbenaceae) Fortnight: Lantana montevidensis ? from Panipat- NS May 100/100 : 3 posts by 3 authors. Attachments (5)
This was recorded from Panipat, planted in a community park..
Is this Lantana montevidensis ?

It does look like Lantana montevidensis. I have attached two photos of the plant that was growing in my college garden in Delhi and which I had got identified by this group.

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Violet lantana flowers : Attachments (1). 11 posts by 7 authors.

Violet lantana flowers

Place : Karjat, near Mumbai.
Date : Dec. 2009

This is Lantana indica

Looks like Lantana indica; yet floral bracts are needed to confirm

This is Lantana indica

I think this should be Trailing Lantana (Lantana montevidensis)
http://www.floridata.com/ref/l/lant_m.cfm
http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/showimage/12473/
http://www.flowersofindia.TrailingLantana.html
native to South America.

It is a low-growing, creeping plant, rather than a shrub, and is popularly used as ground cover.

Just a small doubt. The lantana came to India probably during the Second World War. The how can there be a Lantana indica?

The plant we call common lantana is Lantana camara – that is the plant which came from outside and is invasive. Lantana indica is a different species, which is native to the Indian subcontinent.

Is it not Lantana sellowiana?

…, Lantana sellowiana is a synonym of Lantana montevidensis, I think the plant here is what you think it is.

Thanks … I am not a botanist, so I do not have much knowledge of plants or the synonyms. I always appreciate such information/corrections

Lamiaceae & Verbenaceae Week: Lantana montevidensis-060711MN:

Sending photos of Lantana montevidensis. This is also known as trailing lantana. Very showy, aromatic and used for borders.

Place : Karjat, Maharashtra
Date : 20.9.2009
Time : 10.00 a.m.
Habitat : Cultivated

VERBENACEAE: Lantana montevidensis (Spreng.) Briq.:

Lantana montevidensis (Spreng.) Briq., Annuaire Conserv. Jard. Bot. Genève 7-8: 301 (1904).

Synonyms:
Lippia montevidensis Spreng., Syst. Veg. 2: 751 (1825).
Camara montevidensis (Spreng.) Kuntze, Revis. Gen. Pl. 3(2): 250 (1898).
Lantana sellowiana Link & Otto, Icon. Pl. Select.: 107 (1826).
Lantana sellowiana f. planifolia Cham., Linnaea 7: 126 (1832).
Lantana sellowiana f. rugosa Cham., Linnaea 7: 126 (1832).
Lantana selloi Steud., Nomencl. Bot., ed. 2, 2: 8 (1841), orth. var.
Lantana sellowiana var. lanceolata Hook., Bot. Mag. 68: t. 3941 (1842).
Lantana decumbens Sellow ex A.DC. in A.P.de Candolle, Prodr. 11: 604 (1847).
Lantana delicatissima Poit., Rev. Hort., IV, 1: 461 (1852).
Camara sellowiana (Link & Otto) Kuntze, Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 504 (1891).
Lantana montevidensis f. albiflora Moldenke, Phytologia 2: 365 (1947).

Family: VERBENACEAE
Distribution: Tropical America
Current Location: KFBG, Tai Po, New Territories, Hong Kong (from gardens)

is this also found in India

It’s grown in gardens!!

If it is a creeper type Lantana, then it is there in my college garden in Delhi.
Notice the yellow-white centre of the young unpollinated flowers that has disappeared in the older pollinated flowers. Many insects including bees and probably thrips that pollinate Lantana flowers, see in ultra-violet light and in UV light only the yellow- white centre is visible; rest of the flower apprears black. In the other common species of Lantana the young yellow flowers turn pink/red on pollination; red too appears black in UV light.