Verbenaceae

Priva Adans.

First published in Fam. Pl. 2: 505 (1763)
This genus is accepted
The native range of this genus is Tropical & S. Africa to Myanmar, Tropical & Subtropical America.

Distribution

Native to:

Angola, Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Aruba, Assam, Bahamas, Bangladesh, Belize, Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil West-Central, Cape Provinces, Cayman Is., Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Djibouti, Dominican Republic, DR Congo, East Himalaya, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Florida, Free State, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, India, Jamaica, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Leeward Is., Madagascar, Malawi, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Netherlands Antilles, Nicaragua, Northern Provinces, Oman, Pakistan, Panamá, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Rwanda, Socotra, Somalia, Southwest Caribbean, Sri Lanka, Sudan-South Sudan, Suriname, Tanzania, Texas, Trinidad-Tobago, Turks-Caicos Is., Uganda, Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles, Windward Is., Yemen, Zimbabwe

Introduced into:

Galápagos, Gulf of Guinea Is.

Synonyms

Homotypic 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.

Flora of West Tropical Africa

  • Moldenke in Fedde Rep. 41: 1—76 (1936).
  • —F.T.A. 5: 285

Flora Zambesiaca

  • Atkins in Kadereit (ed.), Fam. Gen. Vasc. Pl. (Kubitzki, ed. in chief) VII: 464 (2004).
  • Bot. Helvetica 95 , 1: 33–45 (1985).
  • Fam. Pl. 2: 505 (1763).
  • Kadereit (ed.), Fam. Gen. Vasc. Pl. (Kubitzki, ed. in chief) VII : 464 (2004).
  • Moldenke in Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 41: 1–76 (1936).
  • R. Fernandes in Bot. Helvetica 95, 1: 33–45 (1985).
  • Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 41 : 1–76 (1936).

Flora of Somalia

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

Flora of Tropical East Africa

  • Fam. Pl. 2: 505 (1763)
  • Moldenke in F.R. 41: 1–76 (1936)
  • R. Fernandes in Bot. Helv. 95: 33–45 (1985)

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

  • 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