Leucas martinicensis

Life-forms

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: Leucas
Species: Leucas martinicensis
Name

Leucas martinicensis R.Br., 1810
Synonyms

Basionym
Clinopodium martinicense Jacq., Enum. Syst. Pl.: 25 (1760).
Homotypic
Phlomis martinicensis (Jacq.) Sw., Prodr. Veg. Ind. Occ.: 88 (1788).
Leonotis martinicensis (Jacq.) J.C.Manning & Goldblatt, Strelitzia 29: 809 (2012).
Heterotypic
Phlomis caribaea Jacq., Collectanea 1: 154 (1787).
Phlomis mollis Schumach. & Thonn. in C.F.Schumacher, Beskr. Guin. Pl.: 263 (1827).
Stachys fluminensis Vell., Fl. Flumin. 6: t. 1, 241 (1829).
Leonotis caribea (Jacq.) Raf., Fl. Tellur. 3: 88 (1837).
Leucas schimperi Hochst. ex A.Braun, Flora 24(1): 279 (1841), nom. nud.
Leucas elliotii Baker in D.Oliver & auct. suc. (eds.), Fl. Trop. Afr. 5: 477 (1900).
Leucas martinicensis var. schimperi Fiori, Nuovo Giorn. Bot. Ital., n.s., 20: 372 (1913).
Leucas ringoetii De Wild., Contr. Fl. Katanga: 169 (1921).

Distribution
Native distribution areas:

Continental: Tropical & Subtropical Old World
Angola, Assam, Bangladesh, Benin, Botswana, Burkina, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Provinces, Cape Verde, Central African Repu, Chad, China South-Central, Comoros, Djibouti, East Himalaya, Eritrea, Free State, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Gulf of Guinea Is., India, Ivory Coast, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nepal, Niger, Nigeria, Northern Provinces, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Socotra, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, West Himalaya, Yemen, Zambia, Zaïre, Zimbabwe
Introduced into:
Brazil Northeast, Brazil Southeast, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Leeward Is., Malaya, Queensland, Trinidad-Tobago, 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

Govaerts, R.H.A. 2003. World Checklist of Selected Plant Families Database in ACCESS: 1-216203. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. [unavailable for the public] Reference page.
Bramley, G.L.C. (2019). Flora Malesiana 23: 1-444. Noordhoff-Kolff N.V., Djakarta.

Links

Govaerts, R. et al. 2022. Leucas martinicensis in World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2022 Mar 27. Reference page.
Hassler, M. 2022. Leucas martinicensis. 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 27. Reference page.
Tropicos.org 2022. Leucas martinicensis. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 27 Mar 2022.
International Plant Names Index. 2022. Leucas martinicensis. Published online. Accessed: Mar 27 2022.
USDA, ARS, Germplasm Resources Information Network. Leucas martinicensis in the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN), U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service. Accessed: 07-Oct-06.

Vernacular names
English: whitewort Kreyòl
svenska: Bolldån
中文: 卵叶白绒草