Family: Verbenaceae
Kingdom: Plantae Rank: Family Parent: Lamiales Status: Valid
Common Names:
- Verbenaceae - English, United States of America
Vegetative Morphology
Habit: Herbs, shrubs, lianas, and trees.
Branch: Stems sometimes quadrangular, sometimes with spines.
Leaves: Leaves simple, sessile or petiolate, palmately or trifoliately compound, opposite or verticillate, rarely alternate; some genera with glands at the base of the lamina or on the petiole.
Reproductive Morphology
Fruit: Fruit a berry or drupe, sometimes with the calyx persistent in the form of a cupule, or a schizocarp.
Infructescence: Infructescence axillary or terminal.
Other
Notes: Plants sometimes aromatic, especially in the genera of herbs and shrubs.