Verbenaceae

] 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.

Recent phylogenetic studies have shown that numererous genera traditionally classified in Verbenaceae belong instead in Lamiaceae. The new narrowly circumscribed Verbenaceae family includes some 35 genera and 1,200 species. Avicennia, sometimes placed in Verbenaceae or in its own family, Avicenniaceae, has rather confidently been placed in Acanthaceae.

Economically important Verbenaceae include: Lemon Verbena (Aloysia triphylla), grown for aroma or flavoring
Verbenas or vervains (Verbena), some used in herbalism, others grown in gardens

Genera

The genera in the new narrowly circumscribed family:

Acantholippia
Aloysia – beebrushes
Baillonia
Bouchea
Burroughsia
Casselia
Chascanum
Citharexylum – fiddlewoods
Coelocarpum
Diostea
Dipyrena
Duranta
Glandularia
Hierobotana
Junellia
Lampayo
Lantana – shrub verbenas, lantanas
Nashia
Neosparton
Parodianthus
Petrea – sandpaper vines
Phyla – fogfruits and lippias (includes Lippia)
Pitraea
Priva
Recordia
Rehdera
Rhaphithamnus
Stachytarpheta
Stylodon
Tamonea
Ubochea
Urbania
Verbena – verbenas/vervains
Verbenoxylum
Xeroaloysia
Xolocotzia

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The genera formerly included in Verbenaceae but now moved to Lamiaceae include:

Amasonia
Callicarpa – beautyberries
Caryopteris – bluebeards
Clerodendrum – glorybowers, bagflowers, "bleeding-hearts"
Congea
Cornutia
Garrettia
Gmelina
Holmskioldia
Hymenopyramis
Oxera
Premna
Schnabelia
Sphenodesme
Symphorema
Tectona – teak trees
Tsoongia

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Translation

The word "Verbenaceae" occurs as such in the following languages: English, Spanish, French, Indonesian, Italian, Javanese, Latin, Portuguese, Romanian.

Translation(s) in other languages: Arabic: أرثدية, Bulgarian: Върбинкови, Catalan: Verbenàcia, Danish: Jernurt-familien, German: Eisenkrautgewächse, Esperanto: Verbenacoj, Korean: 마편초과, Upper Sorbian: Twjerdźenkowe rostliny, Hebrew: ורבניים, Kazakh: Вербеналықтар, Lithuanian: Verbeniniai, Hungarian: Vasfűfélék, Dutch: IJzerhardfamilie, Japanese: クマツヅラ科, Norwegian (Bokmål): Jernurtfamilien, Polish: Werbenowate, Russian: Вербеновые, Finnish: Rautayrttikasvit, Swedish: Verbenaväxter, Telugu: వెర్బినేసి, Vietnamese: Họ Cỏ roi ngựa, Chinese: 马鞭草科.