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This species is accepted, and its native range is Mauritius, Tropical & Subtropical Asia.

Native to:

Andaman Is., Assam, Bangladesh, China Southeast, East Himalaya, Hainan, India, Jawa, Lesser Sunda Is., Malaya, Mauritius, Myanmar, Nepal, New Guinea, Nicobar Is., Pakistan, Philippines, South China Sea, Sulawesi, Thailand, Vietnam, West Himalaya

Introduced into:

Eritrea

Leucas aspera (Willd.) Link appears in other Kew resources:

Date Reference Identified As Barcode Type Status
Jan 1, 2011 Bloembergen, S. [3073], Indonesia K000856473
Apr 1, 2009 Sumsubin [15], Malaysia K000610505
Jan 1, 1997 Barbon [1615], Philippines K000855658
Coode, M.J.E. [NGF32554], Papua New Guinea K000855705
Stevens, P. [LAE50333], Papua New Guinea K000855707
Hartley, T.G. [11612], Papua New Guinea K000855706
Henty, E.E. [NGF41962], Papua New Guinea K000855704
Elmer, A.D.E. [5626], Philippines K000855657
Junghuhn, F. [38], Indonesia K000856474
s.coll. [Cat. no. 2528] Leucas dimidiata K001116353
s.coll. [Cat. no. 2528] Leucas dimidiata K001116354
s.coll. [Cat. no. 2528] Leucas dimidiata K001116357
s.coll. [Cat. no. 2528] Leucas dimidiata K001116358
s.coll. [Cat. no. 2528] Leucas dimidiata K001116359
Wallich, N. [Cat. no. 2522], India Leucas plukenetii K001116343
s.coll. [Cat. no. 2522] Leucas plukenetii K001116342
s.coll. [Cat. no. 2522] Leucas plukenetii K001116344

First published in Enum. Hort. Berol. Alt. 2: 113 (1822)

Accepted by

  • Bramley, G.L.C. (2019). Flora Malesiana 23: 1-444. Noordhoff-Kolff N.V., Djakarta.
  • Khanam, M. & Hassan, M.A. (2008). Lamiaceae Flora of Bangladesh 58: 1-161. Bangladesh National Herbarium, Dhaka.
  • Hedberg, I., Kelbessa, E., Edwards, S., Demissew, S. & Persson, E. (eds.) (2006). Flora of Ethiopia and Eritrea 5: 1-690. The National Herbarium, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia & The Department of Systematic Botany, Upps.
  • Khanman, M. & Abul Hassan, M. (2005). A critical study of the genus Leucas R.Br. (Lamiaceae) from Bangladesh Bangladesh Journal of Plant Taxonomy 12: 1-10.
  • Tanaka, N., Koyama, T. & Murata, J. (2005). The flowering plants of Mt. Popa, central Myanmar - Results of Myanmar-Japanese joint expeditions, 2000-2004 Makinoa 5: 1-102.
  • Govaerts, R. (2003). World Checklist of Selected Plant Families Database in ACCESS: 1-216203. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

Literature

Kew Backbone Distributions

  • Bramley, G.L.C. (2019). Flora Malesiana 23: 1-444. Noordhoff-Kolff N.V., Djakarta.
  • Pandey, R.P. & Dilwakar, P.G. (2008). An integrated check-list flora of Andaman and Nicobar islands, India Journal of Economic and Taxonomic Botany 32: 403-500.
  • Hedberg, I., Kelbessa, E., Edwards, S., Demissew, S. & Persson, E. (eds.) (2006). Flora of Ethiopia and Eritrea 5: 1-690. The National Herbarium, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia & The Department of Systematic Botany, Upps.
  • Khanman, M. & Abul Hassan, M. (2005). A critical study of the genus Leucas R.Br. (Lamiaceae) from Bangladesh Bangladesh Journal of Plant Taxonomy 12: 1-10.

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Kew Backbone Distributions
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Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone
The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2021. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
© Copyright 2017 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0