Leonotis

Leonotis nepetifolia

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Lamiales
Classification System: APG IV Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Plantae Cladus: Angiosperms Cladus: Eudicots Cladus: Core eudicots Cladus: Asterids Cladus: Lamiids Ordo: Lamiales

Familia: Lamiaceae
Subfamilia: Lamioideae
Tribus: Leucadeae
Genus: Leonotis
Species: L. decadonta – L. goetzei – L. grandis – L. leonurus – L. myricifolia – L. myrothamnifolia – L. nepetifolia – L. ocymifolia – L. pole-evansii

Name

Leonotis (Pers.) R.Br., Prodr. Fl. Nov. Holl.: 504 (1810)

• Type species: Leonotis ocymifolia (Burm.f.) Iwarsson, Fl. S. Afr. 28: 32 (1985) Lecotypified as synonym Leonotis leonitis (L.) R.Br. in W.T.Aiton, Hortus Kew. 3: 410 (1811), nom. inval.

Synonyms

• Basionym
  • Phlomis subgen. Leonotis Pers. Syn. Pl. 2: 127. (1806)
• Heterotypic
  • Leonurus Mill., Gard. Dict. Abr. ed. 4 (1754), nom. illeg.
  • Hemisodon Raf., Fl. Tellur. 3: 88 (1837)

Distribution

Native distribution areas:

Continental: Africa & Indian Subcontinent Angola, Bangladesh, Benin, Botswana, Burkina, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Provinces, Central African Repu, Chad, Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Free State, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Gulf of Guinea Is., India, Ivory Coast, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Nepal, Niger, Nigeria, Northern Provinces, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zaïre, Zimbabwe Introduced into: Alabama, Aldabra, Argentina Northeast, Bahamas, Bermuda, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Cambodia, Canary Is., China South-Central, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Hawaii, Honduras, Jamaica, Jawa, Leeward Is., Malaya, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Morocco, Netherlands Antilles, New Caledonia, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Seychelles, Society Is., Southwest Caribbean, St.Helena, Sumatera, Suriname, Trinidad-Tobago, Turks-Caicos Is., Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles, Vietnam, Windward Is. References: Brummitt, R.K. 2001. TDWG – World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2nd Edition

References

Primary references

• Brown, R. 1810. Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae et Insulae Van Diemen. pp. i–viii + 145–590, Londini: R.Taylor. BHL Reference page. : 504

Additional references

• Iwarsson, M. & Harvey, Y. 2003. Monograph of the genus Leonotis (Pers.) R.Br. (Lamiaceae), Kew Bulletin 58: 597–645. DOI: 10.2307/4111146 JSTOR Reference page. 

Links

• Govaerts, R. et al. 2022. Leonotis in World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2022 Mar 26. Reference page. 
• Hassler, M. 2022. Leonotis. World Plants: Synonymic Checklists of the Vascular Plants of the World In: Roskovh, Y., Abucay, L., Orrell, T., Nicolson, D., Bailly, N., Kirk, P., Bourgoin, T., DeWalt, R.E., Decock, W., De Wever, A., Nieukerken, E. van, Zarucchi, J. & Penev, L., eds. 2022. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life. Published online. Accessed: 2022 Mar 26. Reference page. 
• Tropicos.org 2022. Leonotis. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 26 Mar 2022.
• International Plant Names Index. 2022. Leonotis. Published online. Accessed: Mar 26 2022.

Vernacular names

Deutsch: Löwenohren
suomi: Leijonankorvat
հայերեն: Առյուծականջ

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