- Family:
- Lamiaceae Martinov
Lavandula L.
[FSOM]
M. Thulin et al. Flora of Somalia, Vol. 1-4 [updated 2008] https://plants.jstor.org/collection/FLOS
- Morphology General Habit
- Shrubs or perennial herbs, with branched and/or simple hairs
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
- Inflorescences spicate (in Somali species), lax or dense, terminal at the end of a long axis; bracts irregularly arranged along the rhachis (in Somali species), much smaller and distinct from the leaves; bracteoles absent (in Somali species)
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx
- Calyx shortly 5-lobed, 15-veined (in Somali species)
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
- Corolla 5-lobed, slightly or indistinctly 2-lipped; upper lip 2-lobed, almost flat; 2 lower lobes ± longer than the upper 3 lobes
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Androecium Stamens
- Stamens not protruding beyond the mouth of the tube
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Gynoecium Style
- Style not protruding beyond the mouth of the corolla-tube, with short and broad branches
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
- Nutlets oblong or narrowly elliptic, with a ± distinct areole at the scar.
- Distribution
- Genus with about 48 species, from the Atlantic Is, through the Mediterranean region to Arabia, North-East Africa and India. The five species in Somalia all belong to sect. Subnudae Chaytor.
[LKGF]
Harley, R.M. et al. (2004). Labiatae, in The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants (K. Kubitzki, ed. in chief) VI: 167-275. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York.
- Morphology General Habit
- Shrubs, subshrubs or short lived herbs, usually strongly aromatic, glabrous or indumentum variable, sometimes stellate
- Morphology Leaves
- Leaves entire or dissected
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
- Inflorescence a congested terminal spiciform thyrse, occasionally with coma of coloured bracts, usually distinctly pedunculate, simple or branched, verticillaster either a 3-9-flowered cincinnus with minute bracteoles or cyme 1-flowered, usually ebracteol
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences Bracts
- Bracts persistent, opposite or spirally arranged
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences Bracteoles
- Bracteoles minute or absent
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers
- Flowers sessile or pedicellate
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx
- Calyx persistent, ovoid-cylindrical, actinomorphic to 2-lipped, 5-lobed (3/2), lobes ± equal or posterior lip larger or modified into an appendage, tube 8-, 13- or 15- nerved, nerves to anterior lobes reaching and sometimes anastomosing at apex
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
- Corolla weakly or strongly 2-lipped, 5-lobed (2/3), blue-violet to purple or white, rarely blackish purple or yellowish, lobes spreading, variable in size, corolla-tube either just exceeding or up to 3 x longer than calyx
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Androecium Stamens
- Stamens 4, declinate, usually didynamous, included within tube, anterior pair longer
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Androecium Stamens Anthers
- Filaments glabrous, anthers reniform, confluent
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Gynoecium Stigma
- Stigma-lobes, if present, often complanate or stigma capitate
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
- Nutlets variable in shape, colour and size, with either small basal abscission scar or lateral scar (areole) 0.25 to 0.75 x length of nutlet, usually mucilaginous.
- Note
- 2n=18, 24, 30, 36, 42, 54. Circa 36 species. A revised infrageneric classification of three subgenera and seven sections has been proposed (Upson 1997).
- Distribution
- From Macaronesia, Mediterranean basin, Northern and Northeastern Africa, Southwestern Asia, Arabian Peninsula, Central and Southern India. Introduced to Eastern Europe, Australia and New Zealand
[FTEA]
Lamiaceae (Labiatae), A.J. Paton, G. Bramley, O. Ryding, R.M. Polhill, Y.B. Harvey, M. Iwarsson, F. Willis, P.B. Phillipson, K. Balkwill, C.W. Lukhoba, D.F. Otieno, & R.M. Harley. Flora of Tropical East Africa. 2009
- Morphology General Habit
- Subshrubs
- Morphology Leaves
- Leaves entire or dissected
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
- Inflorescence a congested terminal spike-like thyrse, sometimes with a coma of brightly coloured bracts; verticils 2–many-flowered
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx
- Calyx actinomorphic or 2-lipped, 5-lobed with lobes equal or with posterior lobe larger
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
- Corolla weakly or strongly 2-lipped; lobes spreading
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Androecium Stamens
- Stamens 4, declinate, included in corolla tube.
[LKGF]
- Use
- A number of species, principally L. angustifolia Mill. and L. x intermedia Emeric ex Loisel., are commercially important for their essential oils, used in the perfumery and fragrance industry, aromotherapy and as ornamentals.
[FTEA]
- Use
- Native to Mediterranean climates from Macaronesia to South India, widely cultivated as an ornamental, for essential oils and for medicinal use
Native to:
Algeria, Baleares, Bangladesh, Canary Is., Cape Verde, Chad, Corse, Cyprus, Djibouti, East Aegean Is., Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, France, Greece, Gulf States, India, Iran, Italy, Kriti, Lebanon-Syria, Libya, Madeira, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Niger, Oman, Palestine, Portugal, Sardegna, Saudi Arabia, Sicilia, Sinai, Socotra, Somalia, Spain, Sudan, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkey-in-Europe, Western Sahara, Yemen
Introduced into:
Austria, Azores, Bulgaria, Krym, Marianas, New York, New Zealand North, New Zealand South, Norfolk Is., Venezuela, Vermont, West Himalaya, Yugoslavia
- Lavandula × alportelensis P.Silva, Fontes & Myre
- Lavandula angustifolia Mill.
- Lavandula antineae Maire
- Lavandula aristibracteata A.G.Mill.
- Lavandula atriplicifolia Benth.
- Lavandula austroapennina N.G.Passal., Tundis & Upson
- Lavandula bipinnata (Roth) Kuntze
- Lavandula bramwellii Upson & S.Andrews
- Lavandula buchii Webb & Berthel.
- Lavandula × cadevallii Sennen
- Lavandula canariensis Mill.
- Lavandula × cavanillesii D.Guillot & Rosselló
- Lavandula citriodora A.G.Mill.
- Lavandula coronopifolia Poir.
- Lavandula dentata L.
- Lavandula dhofarensis A.G.Mill.
- Lavandula erythraeae (Chiov.) Cufod.
- Lavandula galgalloensis A.G.Mill.
- Lavandula gibsonii J.Graham
- Lavandula × ginginsii Upson & S.Andrews
- Lavandula hasikensis A.G.Mill.
- Lavandula × heterophylla Viv.
- Lavandula × intermedia Emeric ex Loisel.
- Lavandula lanata Boiss.
- Lavandula latifolia Medik.
- Lavandula × limae Rozeira
- Lavandula × losae Sánchez-Gómez, Alcaraz & García Vall.
- Lavandula macra Baker
- Lavandula mairei Humbert
- Lavandula maroccana Murb.
- Lavandula minutolii Bolle
- Lavandula multifida L.
- Lavandula nimmoi Benth.
- Lavandula nooruddinii A.Patzelt & A.Al Hinai
- Lavandula pedunculata (Mill.) Cav.
- Lavandula pinnata Lundmark
- Lavandula pubescens Decne.
- Lavandula qishnensis Upson & S.Andrews
- Lavandula rejdalii Upson & Jury
- Lavandula rotundifolia Benth.
- Lavandula saharica Upson & Jury
- Lavandula samhanensis Upson & S.Andrews
- Lavandula setifera T.Anderson
- Lavandula somaliensis Chaytor
- Lavandula stoechas L.
- Lavandula sublepidota Rech.f.
- Lavandula subnuda Benth.
- Lavandula tenuisecta Coss. ex Ball
- Lavandula viridis L'Hér.
Lavandula L. appears in other Kew resources:
First published in Sp. Pl.: 572 (1753)
Accepted by
- Govaerts, R. (2003). World Checklist of Selected Plant Families Database in ACCESS: 1-216203. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Literature
Flora of Somalia
- Flora Somalia, (2000) Author: by O. Ryding [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
- Miller in Notes Roy. Bot. Gard. Edinburgh 42: 503–528 (1985)
- Upson & Andrews, The genus Lavandula (2004).
Flora of Tropical East Africa
- Andrews, S. (2004).
- Gunther, E. (1949). The essential oils. Individual essential oils of the plant families Rutaceae and Labiatae, vol. 3.
Lamiaceae Key Genus Fact Sheets
- Chaetostachys Benth. in N.Wallich, Pl. Asiat. Rar. 2: 19 (1830)., (1831).
- Chaytor, J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 51: 153-204 (1937)
- Fabricia Adans., Fam. Pl. 2: 188 (1763).
- Harley RM, Atkins S, Budantsev AL, Cantino PD, Conn BJ, Grayer R, Harley MM, de Kok RPJ, Krestovskaja T, Morales R, Paton AJ, Ryding O, and Upson T. 2004. Labiatae, in The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants (K. Kubitzki, ed. in chief) VI: 167-275. Sp
- Isinia Rech.f., Oesterr. Bot. Z. 99: 47 (1952).
- Lavandula L., Sp. Pl. 2: 572 (1753)
- Lavendula L., Syst. Nat. (1735), orth. var.
- Sabaudia Buscal. & Muschl., Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 49: 491 (1913).
- Stoechas Mill., Gard. Dict. Abr. ed. 4 (1754).
- Styphonia Medik., Staatsw. Vorles. Churpf. Phys. Oek. Ges. 1: 230 (1791).
- Upson, doctoral thesis, Reading U., unpublished (1997).
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