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Leonotis

{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}}

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{{Automatic taxobox

| name = Leonotis (lion's-ear)

| image = Leonotis leonurus.jpg

| image_caption = Leonotis nepetifolia

| taxon = Leonotis

| authority = (C.H. Persoon) R.Br.

| type_species = Leonotis ocymifolia

| type_species_authority = (Burman f.) Iwarsson

| synonyms_ref =

| synonyms =

  • Leonurus Mill. 1754 not L. 1753
  • Hemisodon Raf.

}}

Leonotis is a genus of flowering plants in the family Lamiaceae.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}} 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.[http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=109426 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families]Mattias Iwarsson and Yvette Harvey. 2003. "Monograph of the genus Leonotis (Pers.) R.Br. (Lamiaceae)". Kew Bulletin 58(3):597-645.

Leonotis was named by Robert Brown in 1810 in Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae et Insulae Van Diemen.Robert Brown. 1810. Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae et Insulae Van Diemen:504. (see External links below). The name means "lion's ear".

The type for the genus is the specimen of Leonotis ocymifolia that was originally described as Leonotis leonitis.Leonotis In: Index Nominum Genericorum. In: Regnum Vegetabile (see External links below). It is a specimen of Leonotis ocymifolia var. ocymifolia.

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 subfamily Lamioideae. Leonotis might be paraphyletic or even polyphyletic because Leonotis leonurus is not closely related to the other species.Anne-Cathrine Scheen and Victor A. Albert. 2009. "Molecular Phylogenetics of the Leucas Group (Lamioideae; Lamiaceae)". Systematic Botany 34(1):173-181. In 2009, it was shown that Leonotis and 3 other genera are embedded in Leucas, a genus of about 100 species. If the 4 embedded genera were merged with Leucas, the expanded Leucas would have about 132 species.

References

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External links

{{Commons category|Leonotis}}

{{Wikispecies|Leonotis}}

  • [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/21871#372 Leonotis (page 504)] In: [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/21871#10 Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae et Insulae Van Diemen] At: [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/3678 bibliography/3678] At:[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org Biodiversity Heritage Library]
  • [http://botany.si.edu/ing/INGsearch.cfm?searchword=Leonotis Leonotis] At:[http://www.botany.si.edu/ing Index Nominum Genericorum] At: [http://www.botany.si.edu/index.htm?references References] At: [http://www.botany.si.edu/index.htm NMNH Department of Botany]
  • [http://plants.usda.gov/java/ClassificationServlet?source=profile&symbol=LEONO&display=63 Classification for Kingdom Plantae Down to Genus Leonotis], United States Department of Agriculture
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20071114065548/http://loewenohr.org/ German Lion's-Tail Forum]
  • [http://www.ipni.org/ipni/simplePlantNameSearch.do?find_wholeName=Leonotis IPNI Listing]

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Category:Lamiaceae

Category:Lamiaceae genera