Leonotis

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Leonotis (lion's-ear)
Leonotis nepetifolia
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Lamiales
Family: Lamiaceae
Subfamily: Lamioideae
Genus: Leonotis
(
R.Br.
Type species
Leonotis ocymifolia
Synonyms[1]
  • Leonurus Mill. 1754 not L. 1753
  • Hemisodon Raf.

Leonotis is a

southern India. It is naturalized throughout most of the tropics. The other species are endemic to southern + eastern Africa.[1][3]

Leonotis was named by

Robert Brown in 1810 in Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae et Insulae Van Diemen.[4]
The name means "lion's ear".

The type for the genus is the specimen of Leonotis ocymifolia that was originally described as Leonotis leonitis.[5] It is a specimen of Leonotis ocymifolia var. ocymifolia.[3]

Leonotis leonurus and Leonotis nepetifolia seem to be mildly psychoactive, similar to cannabis albeit producing a far less potent and less intense "high"

Species

  1. Leonotis decadonta Gürke - southeast Africa from Burundi + Tanzania south to Mozambique
  2. Leonotis goetzei Gürke - Tanzania
  3. Leonotis grandis Iwarsson & Y.B. Harvey      - Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia
  4. Leonotis leonurus (L.) Robert Brown - South Africa, Angola; naturalized in Burundi, Java, St. Helena
  5. Leonotis myricifolia Iwarsson & Y.B. Harvey - Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia
  6. Leonotis myrothamnifolia Iwarsson & Y.B. Harvey - Malawi, Zambia
  7. Leonotis nepetifolia (L.) Robert Brown - sub-Saharan Africa from Ethiopia west to Senegal and south to Transvaal, also Indian subcontinent; naturalized in Morocco, Canary Islands, Southeast Asia, New Caledonia, French Polynesia, much of Latin America; West Indies
  8. Leonotis ocymifolia (Burman f.) Iwarsson - eastern Africa from Sudan + Eritrea south to Transvaal
  9. Leonotis pole-evansii Hutch. - Zambia

Taxonomy

Leonotis is a member of the

polyphyletic because Leonotis leonurus is not closely related to the other species.[6] In 2009, it was shown that Leonotis and 3 other genera are embedded in Leucas,[6] a genus of about 100 species.[2]
If the 4 embedded genera were merged with Leucas, the expanded Leucas would have about 132 species.

References

  1. ^ a b Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  2. ^
    ISBN 978-3-540-40593-1
  3. ^ a b Mattias Iwarsson and Yvette Harvey. 2003. "Monograph of the genus Leonotis (Pers.) R.Br. (Lamiaceae)". Kew Bulletin 58(3):597-645.
  4. ^ Robert Brown. 1810. Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae et Insulae Van Diemen:504. (see External links below).
  5. Regnum Vegetabile
    (see External links below).
  6. ^ a b Anne-Cathrine Scheen and Victor A. Albert. 2009. "Molecular Phylogenetics of the Leucas Group (Lamioideae; Lamiaceae)". Systematic Botany 34(1):173-181.

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