Verbenaceae
Verbena
Verbena officinalis

Verbena officinalis var. africana (R.Fern. & Verdc.) Munir

First published in J. Adelaide Bot. Gard. 20: 82 (2002)
This variety is accepted
The native range of this variety is W. Medit., NE. Tropical to S. Africa to Australia. It is an annual or perennial and grows primarily in the seasonally dry tropical biome.

Distribution

Native to:

China South-Central, China Southeast, Eritrea, Ethiopia, France, Japan, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Morocco, Nansei-shoto, New South Wales, Northern Provinces, Northern Territory, Philippines, Queensland, Rwanda, Somalia, South Australia, Sudan, Taiwan, Tanzania, Tasmania, Thailand, Uganda, Victoria, Zambia, Zaïre, Zimbabwe

Introduced into:

Free State, New Zealand North, New Zealand South

Synonyms

Homotypic Synonyms

Heterotypic Synonyms

Publications

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

  • Retief, E. & Meyer, N.L. (2017). Plants of the Free State inventory and identification guide. Strelitzia 38: 1-1236. National Botanical Institute, Pretoria.

An alternative taxonomy had been proposed by the following authorities:

  • Govaerts, R. (2004). World Checklist of Monocotyledons Database in ACCESS: 1-54382. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. [Cited as Verbena officinalis subsp. africana.]
  • O'Leary, N., Múlgura, M.E. & Morrone, O. (2010). Revisión taxonómica de las especies del género Verbena (Verbenaceae). II: serie Verbena. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 97: 365-424. [Cited as Verbena officinalis var. natalensis.]

Kew Backbone Distributions

  • O'Leary, N., Múlgura, M.E. & Morrone, O. (2010). Revisión taxonómica de las especies del género Verbena (Verbenaceae). II: serie Verbena. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 97: 365-424.
  • Retief, E. & Meyer, N.L. (2017). Plants of the Free State inventory and identification guide. Strelitzia 38: 1-1236. National Botanical Institute, Pretoria.

Other Data

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

Sources

  • Flora Zambesiaca

    • Flora Zambesiaca
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Flora of Somalia

    • Flora of Somalia
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2023. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2023. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0