Leucosceptrum

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| image_caption = Leucosceptrum canum

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| genus = Leucosceptrum

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| species = canum

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  • Clerodendrum leucosceptrum D.Don
  • Teucrium leucosceptrum (D.Don) Voigt
  • Teucrium macrostachyum Wall. ex Benth.
  • Comanthosphace nepalensis Kitam. & Murata

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Leucosceptrum is a genus of flowering plant in the family Lamiaceae, first described in 1806. It contains only one known species, Leucosceptrum canum, native to south-western China (Sichuan, Tibet, Yunnan),the eastern Himalayas (Nepal, Bhutan, Assam, Nagaland, Bangladesh), and northern Indochina (Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam).[http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=112072 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families][http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=200019780 Flora of China Vol. 17 Page 245 米团花 mi tuan hua Leucosceptrum canum Smith, Exot. Bot. 2: 113. 1805. ]

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Category:Lamiaceae

Category:Monotypic Lamiaceae genera

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