Ilunga wa Ilunga, E. & Meerts, P. (2024) Verbenaceae Flore d'Afrique Centrale Nouvelle Serie Jardin Botanique Meise, Belgique
Erect shrubs, subshrubs or perennial herbs. Leaves opposite or in whorls of 3-4. Flowers small, sessile, in mostly pedunculate dense heads or spikes which sometimes elongate in fruit, 1-several heads per axil; each flower supported by a bract. Corolla white, greenish or creamy yellow; tube cylindric or funnel-shaped; limb ± 2-lipped. Stamens 4. Ovary 2-locular. Fruit dry, surrounded by the appressed calyx, separating into 2 pyrenes when mature. Derivation of name: after A. Lippi (1678-1705) a French naturalist with Italian origins Worldwide: c. 200 species in tropical America and Africa DRC: 6 taxa. |
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| Species | Botanical divisions | Content |
| abyssinica (Otto & A.Dietr.) Cufod. | III,V,VII,VIII,IX | |
| javanica (Burm.f.) Spreng. | XI | Description, Image |
| multiflora Moldenke | I,II,III,IV,V,VI,VII,VIII | Description |
| plicata Baker | IV,V,IX,XI | Description, Image |
| praecox Mildbr. ex Moldenke var. praecox | XI | |
| woodii Moldenke | XI | Description, Image |