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Verbenaceae

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Short description: Family of flowering plants comprising vervains

Verbenaceae
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Flowers, fruit and leaves (on the right) of a Lantana cultivar
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Lamiales
Family: Verbenaceae
J.St.-Hil.
Synonyms[1]
  • Durantaceae J.Agardh
  • Petreaceae J.Agardh

The Verbenaceae (/ˌvɜːrbəˈneɪsi.iː/ VUR-bə-NAY-see-ee), the verbena family or vervain family, is a family of mainly tropical flowering plants. It contains trees, shrubs, and herbs notable for heads, spikes, or clusters of small flowers, many of which have an aromatic smell.[2]

The family Verbenaceae includes 32 genera and 800 species.[3] Phylogenetic studies[4] have shown that numerous genera traditionally classified in Verbenaceae belong instead in Lamiaceae. The mangrove genus Avicennia, sometimes placed in the Verbenaceae[5] or in its own family, Avicenniaceae,[6] has been placed in the Acanthaceae.[7]

Economically important Verbenaceae include:

  • Lemon verbena (Aloysia triphylla), grown for aroma or flavoring
  • Verbenas or vervains (Verbena), some used in herbalism, others grown in gardens

Taxonomy

Golden dew drops (Duranta erecta)
Frog fruit (Phyla nodiflora)
Glandularia pulchella in Kerala

Tribes and genera in the family[8] and their estimated species numbers:[3]

Casselieae (Schauer) Tronc.

Citharexyleae Briq.

Duranteae Bent.

Lantaneae Endl.

  • Aloysia Palau (beebrushes) - 36 species
  • Burroughsia Moldenke - 2 species
  • Coelocarpum Balf.f. - 6 species
  • Diphyllocalyx (Griseb.) Greuter & R.Rankin - 6 species
  • Isidroa Greuter & R.Rankin - 1 species
  • Lantana L. (shrub verbenas, lantanas) - 100 species
  • Lippia L. - 140 species
  • Nashia Millsp. - 1 species
  • Phyla Lour. (frogfruits) - 5 species

Neospartoneae Olmstead & N.O'Leary

Petreeae Briq.

  • Petrea L. (sandpaper vines) - 12 species

Priveae Briq.

Verbeneae Dumort.

Unassigned

Excluded genera

Various genera formerly included in the family Verbenaceae are now treated under other families:[9]

Moved to Acanthaceae
Moved to Lamiaceae
Moved to Oleaceae
Moved to Orobanchaceae
Moved to Phrymaceae
Moved to Stilbaceae

References

  1. ↑ "Family: Verbenaceae J. St.-Hil., nom. cons.". Germplasm Resources Information Network. United States Department of Agriculture. 2007-04-12. http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/family.pl?1176. 
  2. ↑ Stevens, P. F. (July 12, 2012). "Verbenaceae". Angiosperm Phylogeny Website. http://www.mobot.org/MOBOT/Research/APWeb/orders/Lamialesweb.htm#Verbenaceae. Retrieved September 24, 2013. 
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Cardoso PH, O'Leary N, Olmstead RG, Moroni P, Thode VA (2021). "An update of the Verbenaceae genera and species number". Plant Ecology and Evolution 154 (1): 80–86. doi:10.5091/plecevo.2021.1821. 
  4. ↑ Cantino, P.D., Harley, R.M. & Wagstaff, S.J. 1992. Genera of Labiatae: status and classification. Pp. 511-522. In Harley, R.M. & Reynolds, T. (eds) Advances in Labiate Science. Richmond, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  5. ↑ Grandtner, Miroslav M. (2005). Elsevier's Dictionary of Trees: With Names in Latin, English, French, Spanish and Other Languages. 1. Elsevier. p. 88. ISBN 978-0-444-51784-5. https://books.google.com/books?id=yjc5ZYWtkNAC. 
  6. ↑ Nelson, Gil (1994). The Trees of Florida: a Reference and Field Guide. Pineapple Press. p. 52. ISBN 978-1-56164-055-3. https://books.google.com/books?id=Wzmo7cHvhZkC. 
  7. ↑ "Angiosperm Phylogeny Website - Lamiales". Missouri Botanical Garden. http://www.mobot.org/mobot/research/APweb/orders/lamialesweb.htm#Lamiales. 
  8. ↑ Marx H, O’Leary N, Yuan Y, Lu-Irving P, Tank DC, Múlgura ME, Olmstead, RG (2010). "A molecular phylogeny and classification of Verbenaceae". American Journal of Botany 97 (10): 1647–1663. doi:10.3732/ajb.1000144. PMID 21616800. 
  9. ↑ "GRIN genera sometimes placed in Verbenaceae". Germplasm Resources Information Network. United States Department of Agriculture. http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/gnothlist.pl?1176. 

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