''Phyla'' is a

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of eustarid

plant Plants are the eukaryotes that form the Kingdom (biology), kingdom Plantae; they are predominantly Photosynthesis, photosynthetic. This means that they obtain their energy from sunlight, using chloroplasts derived from endosymbiosis with c ...

s in the

verbena ''Verbena'' (), also known as vervain or verveine, is a genus in the family Verbenaceae. It contains about 150 species of annual and perennial herbaceous or semi-woody flowering plants. The majority of the species are native to the Americas ...

family Family (from ) is a Social group, group of people related either by consanguinity (by recognized birth) or Affinity (law), affinity (by marriage or other relationship). It forms the basis for social order. Ideally, families offer predictabili ...

Verbenaceae The Verbenaceae ( ), the verbena family or vervain family, is a family of mainly tropical flowering plants. It contains trees, shrubs, and herbs notable for heads, spikes, or clusters of small flowers, many of which have an aromatic smell. T ...

. The name is derived from the

Greek Greek may refer to: Anything of, from, or related to Greece, a country in Southern Europe: *Greeks, an ethnic group *Greek language, a branch of the Indo-European language family **Proto-Greek language, the assumed last common ancestor of all kno ...

word φυλή (''phyle''), meaning "tribe", and most likely refers to the tightly clustered flowers or the spreading, mat-like growth. Members of the genus are known generally as fogfruit or frogfruit. Species once classified in the genus '' Lippia'' may be known by the common name lippia. Some species, e.g. Aztec Sweet Herb ('' P. dulcis''), are used in cooking.

Selected species

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Phyla canescens ''Phyla canescens'' is a species of Perennial plant, perennial herbaceous plant in the family Verbenaceae, native to South America. It has been introduced to Australia as an ornamental plant and low-maintenance lawn, but has become naturalised an ...

'' (

Kunth Carl Sigismund Kunth (18 June 1788 – 22 March 1850) was a German botanist. He was also known as Karl Sigismund Kunth or anglicized as Charles Sigismund Kunth. He was one of the early systematic botanists who focused on studying the plants of th ...

) Greene – hairy frogfruit/fogfruit * ''

Phyla chinensis Phyla, the plural of ''phylum'', may refer to: * Phylum, a biological taxon between Kingdom and Class * by analogy, in linguistics, a large division of possibly related languages, or a major language family which is not subordinate to another Phy ...

'' Lour. * '' Phyla cuneifolia'' (Torr.) Greene – wedgeleaf frogfruit/fogfruit, wedgeleaf * '' Phyla dulcis'' ( Trevir.) Moldenke, – Aztec sweet herb, honeyherb, ''hierba dulce'' (

Spanish Spanish might refer to: * Items from or related to Spain: **Spaniards are a nation and ethnic group indigenous to Spain **Spanish language, spoken in Spain and many countries in the Americas **Spanish cuisine **Spanish history **Spanish culture ...

), ''tzopelic-xihuitl'' (

Nahuatl Nahuatl ( ; ), Aztec, or Mexicano is a language or, by some definitions, a group of languages of the Uto-Aztecan language family. Varieties of Nahuatl are spoken by about Nahuas, most of whom live mainly in Central Mexico and have smaller popul ...

) * '' Phyla fruticosa'' ( Mill.) Kennedy – diamondleaf frogfruit/fogfruit * '' Phyla × intermedia'' Moldenke – intermediate frogfruit/fogfruit * '' Phyla lanceolata'' ( Michx.) Greene – lanceleaf frogfruit/fogfruit * '' Phyla nodiflora'' ( L.) Greene – turkey tangle, sawtooth frogfruit/fogfruit * '' Phyla stoechadifolia'' (L.)

Small Small means of insignificant size Size in general is the Magnitude (mathematics), magnitude or dimensions of a thing. More specifically, ''geometrical size'' (or ''spatial size'') can refer to three geometrical measures: length, area, or ...

– southern frogfruit/fogfruit

References

External links

* * Verbenaceae genera {{Verbenaceae-stub