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n. - Family of New World tropical and subtropical herbs and shrubs and trees.

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  • Verbenaceae syn: L. ukambensis Vatke (in Dale & Greenway 1961)
  • Other dominants include Rubiaceae of the genera Canthium and Gardenia, Pittosporum, Dodonaea, and Premna, and Verbenaceae genera.
  • Two other Verbenaceae, a curious Capparidea, caule laxo, foliis lineari-oblongis, basi hastato-cordatis, and a Ximenia are common.
  • Limestone forests near the coast of southern New Ireland and along the coast and interior of New Britain are dominated by Vitex cofassus (Verbenaceae).
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