Verbena supina
L. Trailing VerbenaSp. Pl.: 21 (1753)
APNI Taxonomic status
Accepted
Occurrence status
Present
Establishment means
Introduced
Procumbent or erect herb, 0.1–0.5 m high, much-branched from base; branches laterally flattened to quadrangular, sparsely hairy. Leaves petiolate, triangular or ovate-cuneate in outline, pinnatifid or bipinnatifid to bipinnatisect, 2–4 cm long, 1.5–2.5 cm wide, with lobes bluntly toothed. Inflorescence terminal, with spikes slender. Bracts usually c. half length of calyx. Calyx 4-toothed, c. 3 mm long, minutely strigose; corolla lilac, c. 1.5 times as long as calyx, tube c. 1.5–2 mm long. Mericarps 2–2.5 mm long.
LoM, MuM, Wim, VVP, VRiv, MSB, RobP, MuF, Gold.
Source:
Conn, B.J. (1999). Verbenaceae. In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J., Flora of Victoria Vol. 4, Cornaceae to Asteraceae, pp. 411–418. Inkata Press, Melbourne.
Updated by: Val
Stajsic,
20 Feb. 2019
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