Common name: Trailing Lantana
Lantana montevidensis (Spreng.) Briq. APNI* Synonyms: Lantana sellowiana Link & Otto APNI*
Description: Decumbent shrub, mostly < 0.3 m high, often forming low dense thickets; branches rooting at nodes, scabrous, prickles absent, ± hairy, often glandular on young parts.
Leaves with lamina ovate, 0.8–2.5 cm long, 5–16 mm wide; apex ± acute, base ± truncate, margins toothed, upper surface wrinkled and strigose, lower surface ± pubescent and with yellow to orange sessile glands; petiole 2–4 cm long.
Flower heads 1–2 cm diam.; peduncle 2–8 cm long; bracts broad-ovate, 4–7 mm long. Corolla 8–12 mm long, purplish.
Drupe 4–6 mm diam., purplish black.
Flowering: most of year.
Distribution and occurrence: Weed of wasteland, frequently in rocky sites; chiefly in coastal districts north from Sydney, also recorded from Tamworth. Native of trop. S Amer.
NSW subdivisions: *NC, *CC, *NWS
Other Australian states: *Qld
One cultivar is commonly grown as a garden plant. This species is suspected of being poisonous to stock.
Text by B. J. Conn
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 3 (1992)
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