Lippia
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Authority
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
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Family
Verbenaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Description - Perennial herbs, or shrubs, with opposite, or rarely alternate leaves, an 1 small bracted flowers, in spikes or heads. Calyx small, ovoid, campauulate or compressed and 2-winged, 2-4-toothed or 2-4-cleft. Corolla-tube cylindric, the limb oblique, somewhat 2-lipped, 4-cleft. Stamens 4, didynamous; anthers ovate, not appendagod, the sacs nearly parallel. Ovary 2-celled; ovules 1 in each cavity; style short; stigma oblique or recurved. Fruit dry, with a membranous exocarp, at length separating into 4 nutlets. [Named in honor of Auguste Lippi, 1678-1703, a French naturalist.] About 100 species, most abundant in tropical America. Type species: Lippia americana L.