If it is a creeper type Lantana, then it is there in my college garden in Delhi. Notice the yellow-white centre of the young unpollinated flowers that has disappeared in the older pollinated flowers. Many insects including bees and probably thrips that pollinate Lantana flowers, see in ultra-violet light and in UV light only the yellow- white centre is visible; rest of the flower apprears black. In the other common species of Lantana the young yellow flowers turn pink/red on pollination; red too appears black in UV light. Chitralekha
On Sep 17, 9:58 pm, Pankaj Kumar <[email protected]> wrote: > Lantana montevidensis (Spreng.) Briq., Annuaire Conserv. Jard. Bot. > Genève 7-8: 301 (1904). > > Synonyms: > Lippia montevidensis Spreng., Syst. Veg. 2: 751 (1825). > Camara montevidensis (Spreng.) Kuntze, Revis. Gen. Pl. 3(2): 250 (1898). > Lantana sellowiana Link & Otto, Icon. Pl. Select.: 107 (1826). > Lantana sellowiana f. planifolia Cham., Linnaea 7: 126 (1832). > Lantana sellowiana f. rugosa Cham., Linnaea 7: 126 (1832). > Lantana selloi Steud., Nomencl. Bot., ed. 2, 2: 8 (1841), orth. var. > Lantana sellowiana var. lanceolata Hook., Bot. Mag. 68: t. 3941 (1842). > Lantana decumbens Sellow ex A.DC. in A.P.de Candolle, Prodr. 11: 604 (1847). > Lantana delicatissima Poit., Rev. Hort., IV, 1: 461 (1852). > Camara sellowiana (Link & Otto) Kuntze, Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 504 (1891). > Lantana montevidensis f. albiflora Moldenke, Phytologia 2: 365 (1947). > > Family: VERBENACEAE > Distribution: Tropical America > Current Location: KFBG, Tai Po, New Territories, Hong Kong (from gardens) > Regards > Pankaj > > -- > *********************************************** > "Taxonomists getting Extinct and Species Data Deficient !!" > > Pankaj Kumar Ph.D. (Orchidaceae) > Conservation Officer > Flora Conservation Department > Kadoorie Farm and Botanic Garden (KFBG) Corporation > Lam Kam Road, Tai Po, New Territories, Hong Kong > > email: [email protected] > [email protected] > [email protected] > Phone: +852 2483 7128 (office - 8:30am to 5:30pm) > +852 5431 6094 (mobile) > > Slide60.JPG > 435KViewDownload > > Slide57.JPG > 840KViewDownload
