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Lantana Camara

Flowering Plants

Lantana camara, or common lantana, is a flowering shrub in the verbena family native to the American tropics, adaptable enough to inhabit a wide range of ecosystems between about 45 degrees north and south latitude. Carried out of the Americas by Dutch explorers who cultivated it widely in Europe before it spread through Asia and Oceania, and separately introduced to Goa by the Portuguese, it has since become invasive in roughly fifty countries, where it outcompetes native plants, poisons livestock that graze on it, and can form dense thickets that suppress both pasture grasses and cultivated crops.

Facts

Classification

Diet

Photosynthetic Autotroph 1

System (Realm)

Terrestrial 2

Relationship to People

Agricultural or Structural Pest 1

Relationship to People

Invasive or Introduced Species 1

Comparison

NatureServe Rank

G5 Secure 3

CITES Appendix

Not Listed 4

Scientific Name

Lantana camara 1

Conservation Status

Not Evaluated 5

Connections

Child Taxon Of

Source Wikidata: Lantana Camara

In Ecosystem

Source Lantana camara (Wikipedia)

Source Lantana camara (Wikipedia)

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Sources

1. Lantana camara (Wikipedia)

Wikipedia

Description section, species name
Lantana camara
has become an invasive species...established itself as a notorious weed
invades agricultural areas...reduce the productivity of farmland
lead sentence (diet), EntityId 286019
Lantana camara (common lantana) is a species of flowering plant in the verbena family (Verbenaceae), native to the tropics of the Americas.
In Ecosystem: Galapagos, Distribution and habitat
The range of L. camara is still increasing, shown by the fact that it has invaded many islands on which it was not present in 1974, including the Galapagos Islands, Saipan and the Solomon Islands.
In Ecosystem: Western Ghats, As an invasive species
While a study in the Western Ghats, did not find significant impacts of L. camara invasion on a few native plant indicators, many other studies have found substantial impacts of its invasion on various biodiversity indicators.

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2. World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS)

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3. NatureServe Explorer: Lantana camara

NatureServe ExplorerGlobal rank (roundedGRank)

Quote, Global rank (roundedGRank)

"roundedGRank": "G5"

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4. UNEP-WCMC Species+ database (CITES Secretariat): Species+: Lamiales

UNEP-WCMC Species+ database (CITES Secretariat)Species+ taxon_concepts, id 12396

Quote, Species+ taxon_concepts, id 12396

"cites_listing":"II/III/NC","eu_listing":"B/C/NC","higher_taxa":{"kingdom":"Plantae","phylum":null,"class":null,"order":"Lamiales","family":null},"synonyms":[],"common_names":[],"cites_listings":[]

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5. GBIF Backbone Taxonomy (IUCN Red List category): IUCN Red List category of Lantana camara

GBIF Backbone Taxonomy (IUCN Red List category)iucnRedListCategory record

Quote, iucnRedListCategory record

"category": "NOT_EVALUATED"

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IUCN Red List of Threatened Species

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Wikidata: Lantana Camara

Wikidata Q332469, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)
Child Taxon Of: Lantana, Wikidata P171 (parent taxon) claim, rank=normal, target=Q1096635 (Lantana)

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UNEP-WCMC Species+ database (CITES Secretariat): Species+: Verbenaceae

UNEP-WCMC Species+ database (CITES Secretariat)Species+ taxon_concepts, id 12457

Quote, Species+ taxon_concepts, id 12457

"active":true,"cites_listing":"NC"

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