Verbenaceae

Lippia L.

First published in Sp. Pl.: 633 (1753)
This genus is accepted
The native range of this genus is Tropical & S. Africa, Tropical & Subtropical America.

Distribution

Native to:

Angola, Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Bahamas, Belize, Benin, Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Burkina, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Provinces, Cayman Is., Central African Republic, Chad, Chile Central, Chile North, Colombia, Congo, Costa Rica, Cuba, Djibouti, Dominican Republic, DR Congo, Ecuador, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Florida, Free State, French Guiana, Gabon, Galápagos, Gambia, Ghana, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Leeward Is., Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Mozambique, Namibia, New Mexico, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Northern Provinces, Panamá, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Southwest Caribbean, Sudan-South Sudan, Suriname, Tanzania, Texas, Togo, Trinidad-Tobago, Turks-Caicos Is., Uganda, Uruguay, Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles, Windward Is., Zambia, Zimbabwe

Introduced into:

Andaman Is., Assam, Bangladesh, Central American Pacific Is., East Himalaya, India, Madeira, Portugal, Queensland, West Himalaya

Synonyms

Heterotypic Synonyms

Accepted Species

Classification

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Publications

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

  • Govaerts, R. (2003). World Checklist of Selected Plant Families Database in ACCESS: 1-216203. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  • Mirra, F., Moroni, P., De Egea, J. & O'Leary, N. (2024). Taxonomic revision of Lippia in Paraguay. Annals from the Missouri Botanical Garden 109: 428-489. MBG press.
  • O'Leary, N., Denham, S.., Salimena, F. & Múlgura, M.E. (2012). Species delimination in Lippia section Goniostachyum (Verbenaceae) using the phylogenetic species concept. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 170: 197-219.

Flora of West Tropical Africa

  • —F.T.A. 5: 278, partly.

Flora Zambesiaca

  • Atkins in Kadereit (ed.), Fam. Gen. Vasc. Pl. (Kubitzki, ed. in chief) VII: 462 (2004).
  • Bol. Soc. Brot., sér. 2, 59 : 245–272 (1987).
  • F.T.E.A., Verbenaceae: 27–37 (1992).
  • Gen. Pl., ed. 5: 282 (1754).
  • Kadereit (ed.), Fam. Gen. Vasc. Pl. (Kubitzki, ed. in chief) VII : 462 (2004).
  • Moldenke in Phytologia 12, 13 (1965–1966) (numerous contributions).
  • Phytologia 12 , 13 (1965–1966) (numerous contributions).
  • R. Fernandes in Bol. Soc. Brot., sér. 2, 59: 245–272 (1987).
  • Sp. Pl.: 633 (1753)
  • Verdcourt in F.T.E.A., Verbenaceae: 27–37 (1992).

Flora of Somalia

  • Flora Somalia, (2000) Author: by M. Thulin [updated by M. Thulin 2008]

Flora of Tropical East Africa

  • L., Gen. Pl., ed. 5: 282 (1754)
  • Moldenke in Phytologia 12, 13 (1965–1966) (numerous contributions)
  • R. Fernandes in Bol. Soc. Brot., sér. 2, 59: 245–272 (1987)
  • Sp. Pl.: 633 (1753)

Other Data

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

Sources

  • EBC Common Names

    • Common Names from Kew's Economic Botany Collection https://www.kew.org/science/collections-and-resources/collections/economic-botany-collection

  • 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

  • Flora of Tropical East Africa

    • Flora of Tropical East Africa
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Flora of the Cayman Islands

    • Flora of the Cayman Islands
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2026. 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 2026. 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

  • Neotropikey

    • Milliken, W., Klitgard, B. and Baracat, A. (2009 onwards), Neotropikey - Interactive key and information resources for flowering plants of the Neotropics.
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0