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Verbena family

Flowers , fruit and (right) leaves
of a Lantana cultivar

Scientific classification

Kingdom:	Plantae
Division:	Magnoliophyta
Class:	Magnoliopsida
Subclass:	Asteridae
(unranked):	Euasterids I
Order:	Lamiales
Family:	Verbenaceae Jaume Saint-Hilaire

Genera

About 35-90 depending on circumscription (see text)

The verbena family or vervain vamily, Verbenaceae, is a family of mainly tropical plants. They are trees, shrubs and herbs notable for heads, spikes, or clusters of small flowers, many of which have an aromatic smell.^[1]

1 Selected genera
2 Footnotes
3 References
4 External links

Depending on circumscription, it includes some 35 to 90^{[citation needed]} genera up to nearly 2,000 species.^{[citation needed]}. Many genera have been moved from the Verbenaceae to the Lamiaceae (Labiatae or mint family) in the late 20th century and early 21st century. Avicennia, sometimes placed in Verbenaceae or in its own family, Avicenniaceae^{[citation needed]}, has rather confidently been placed in Acanthaceae^[1]. On the other hand, core Verbenaceae have proven to be more closely related to other members of the Lamiales in the wide sense than to Lamiaceae, indicating that many of the earlier moves were premature^{[citation needed]}.

Economically important Verbenaceae include:

Beautyberries (Callicarpa), cultivated in gardens
Lemon Verbena (Aloysia triphylla), grown for aroma or flavoring
Teak trees (Tectona), grown for lumber
Verbenas or vervains (Verbena), some used in herbalism, others grown in gardens