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Lippia chevalieri - Inflorescence - Click to enlarge!

Inflorescence; Ayeniah, Greater Accra, Ghana; 11/2008 © Jörn Germer

Lippia chevalieri - Inflorescence, side view - Click to enlarge!

Inflorescence, side view; Ayeniah, Greater Accra, Ghana; 11/2008 © Jörn Germer

Lippia chevalieri - Upper and lower surface of leaf - Click to enlarge!

Upper and lower surface of leaf; Ayeniah, Greater Accra, Ghana; 11/2008 © Jörn Germer

Lippia chevalieri - Leaf insertion - Click to enlarge!

Leaf insertion; Ayeniah, Greater Accra, Ghana; 11/2008 © Jörn Germer

Lippia chevalieri - Branch - Click to enlarge!

Branch; Ayeniah, Greater Accra, Ghana; 11/2008 © Jörn Germer

Lippia chevalieri - Habit - Click to enlarge!

Habit; Ayeniah, Greater Accra, Ghana; 11/2008 © Jörn Germer

Lippia chevalieri - Habit - Click to enlarge!

Habit; Ayeniah, Greater Accra, Ghana; 11/2008 © Jörn Germer

Dataset

Identifier: 1008
Date of entry: 07.02.2009
Last update: 11.01.2020

Common name

English: Gambian teabrush

Classification

Kingdom: Plantae (2728)

  Phylum: Tracheophyta (2642)

    Class: Magnoliopsida (2226)

      Order: Lamiales (201)

        Family: Verbenaceae (15)(family description)

          Genus: Lippia (1)

            Epithet: chevalieri Moldenke (1)

chevalieri => in honor of Auguste Jean Baptiste Chevalier (1873-1956), French botanist, taxonomist and explorer

Characteristics

Climate: tropical

Habitat: mesophytic

Habit: shrub

Flower colour: yellow, white

External links

Check for Lippia chevalieri at

World Flora Online, GBIF or IPNI

Literature

  • [18] Arbonnier, M. (2004): Trees, shrubs and lianas of West African dry zones. CIRAD, Paris, France; Margraf, Weikersheim, Germany; MNHN, Paris, France.

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