Leonotis

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. pole-evansiiL. ocymifolia

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)

References

Iwarsson, M. & Harvey, Y. (2003) Monograph of the genus Leonotis (Pers.) R.Br. (Lamiaceae), Kew Bulletin 58: 597–645.
Govaerts, R. et al. 2014. Leonotis in World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2014 June 12. Reference page.
Tropicos.org 2014. Leonotis. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2014 June 12.
International Plant Names Index. 2014. Leonotis. Published online. Accessed: June 12 2014.

Vernacular names
Deutsch: Löwenohren
suomi: Leijonankorvat
հայերեն: Առյուծականջ

Leonotis is a genus of flowering plants in the family Lamiaceae.[2] One species, Leonotis nepetifolia, is native to tropical Africa and 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]

Species

Leonotis decadonta Gürke - southeast Africa from Burundi + Tanzania south to Mozambique
Leonotis goetzei Gürke - Tanzania
Leonotis grandis Iwarsson & Y.B. Harvey - Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia
Leonotis leonurus (L.) Robert Brown - South Africa, Angola; naturalized in Burundi, Java, St. Helena
Leonotis myricifolia Iwarsson & Y.B. Harvey - Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia
Leonotis myrothamnifolia Iwarsson & Y.B. Harvey - Malawi, Zambia
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
Leonotis ocymifolia (Burman f.) Iwarsson - eastern Africa from Sudan + Eritrea south to Transvaal
Leonotis pole-evansii Hutch. - Zambia

Taxonomy

Leonotis is a member of the subfamily Lamioideae.[2] Leonotis might be paraphyletic or even 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

Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
Raymond M. Harley, Sandy Atkins, Andrey L. Budantsev, Philip D. Cantino, Barry J. Conn, Renée J. Grayer, Madeline M. Harley, Rogier P.J. de Kok, Tatyana V. Krestovskaja, Ramón Morales, Alan J. Paton, and P. Olof Ryding. 2004. "Labiatae" pages 167-275. In: Klaus Kubitzki (editor) and Joachim W. Kadereit (volume editor). The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants volume VII. Springer-Verlag: Berlin; Heidelberg, Germany. ISBN 978-3-540-40593-1
Mattias Iwarsson and Yvette Harvey. 2003. "Monograph of the genus Leonotis (Pers.) R.Br. (Lamiaceae)". Kew Bulletin 58(3):597-645.
Robert Brown. 1810. Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae et Insulae Van Diemen:504. (see External links below).
Leonotis In: Index Nominum Genericorum. In: Regnum Vegetabile (see External links below).
Anne-Cathrine Scheen and Victor A. Albert. 2009. "Molecular Phylogenetics of the Leucas Group (Lamioideae; Lamiaceae)". Systematic Botany 34(1):173-181.