- Family:
- Lamiaceae Martinov
- Genus:
- Leonotis (Pers.) R.Br.
Leonotis leonurus (L.) R.Br.

[CPLC]
Bernal, R., Gradstein, S.R. & Celis, M. (eds.). 2015. Catálogo de plantas y líquenes de Colombia. Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá. http://catalogoplantasdecolombia.unal.edu.co
- Distribution
- Cultivada en Colombia; Alt. 2300 - 2800 m.; Andes.
- Morphology General Habit
- Arbusto
[UNAL]
Bernal, R., G. Galeano, A. Rodríguez, H. Sarmiento y M. Gutiérrez. 2017. Nombres Comunes de las Plantas de Colombia. http://www.biovirtual.unal.edu.co/nombrescomunes/
- Vernacular
- oreja de león
[UPB]
The Useful Plants of Boyacá project
- Ecology
- Alt. 2300 - 2800 m.
- Distribution
- Cultivated in Colombia.
- Conservation
- Not Evaluated.
- Morphology General Habit
- Shrub.
[UPFC]
- Distribution
- Biogeografic region: Andean. Elevation range: 2300–2800 m a.s.l. Cultivated in Colombia. Colombian departments: Boyacá, Cundinamarca.
- Habit
- Shrub.
- Ecology
- Habitat according IUCN Habitats Classification: forest and woodland, artificial - terrestrial.
[UPB]
- Use Medicines Unspecified Medicinal Disorders
- Medicinal (State of the World's Plants 2016).
- Use Social Unspecified Social Uses
- Social uses (State of the World's Plants 2016).
[UPFC]
- Use Environmental
- Environmental uses.
- Use Invertebrate Food
- Used as invertebrate food.
- Use Medicines
- Medical uses.
- Use Social
- Social uses.
Native to:
Cape Provinces, Free State, KwaZulu-Natal, Northern Provinces
Introduced into:
Burundi, Jawa, St.Helena
Leonotis leonurus (L.) R.Br. appears in other Kew resources:
Date | Reference | Identified As | Barcode | Type Status | Has image? |
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Jan 14, 1994 | Burchell, W.J. [5288], South Africa | K000193301 | Unknown type material | Yes | |
Jan 14, 1994 | Drege [4829], South Africa | K000414769 | Unknown type material | Yes | |
Jan 14, 1994 | Burchell, W.J. [108], South Africa | K000414770 | Yes | ||
Jan 14, 1994 | Sierra Leone | K000414773 | Yes | ||
Jan 14, 1994 | Nicholson [s.n.], South Africa | K000414771 | Yes | ||
Jan 14, 1994 | Forbes [s.n.], South Africa | K000414774 | Yes | ||
Jan 14, 1994 | South Africa | K000414775 | Yes | ||
Jan 14, 1994 | Drege [s.n.], South Africa | K000414778 | Yes | ||
Jan 14, 1994 | Wood, J.M. [164], South Africa | K000193300 | Unknown type material | Yes | |
Jan 14, 1994 | [Cayley] [s.n.], South Africa | K000414776 | Yes | ||
Jan 1, 1984 | Pappe [s.n.], South Africa | K000414777 | Yes | ||
Jan 1, 1984 | Ecklon [1828], South Africa | K000414772 | Yes |
First published in W.T.Aiton, Hortus Kew. 3: 410 (1811)
Accepted by
- Figueiredo, E. & Smith, G.F. (2008). Plants of Angola. Strelitzia 22: 1-279. National Botanical Institute, Pretoria.
- Govaerts, R. (2003). World Checklist of Selected Plant Families Database in ACCESS: 1-216203. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
- Iwarsson, M. & Harvey, Y. (2003). Monograph of the genus Leonotis (Pers.) R.Br. (Lamiaceae). Kew Bulletin 58: 597-645.
Literature
Catálogo de Plantas y Líquenes de Colombia
- Bernal, R., Gradstein, S.R. & Celis, M. (eds.). 2015. Catálogo de plantas y líquenes de Colombia. Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá. http://catalogoplantasdecolombia.unal.edu.co
Useful Plants of Boyacá Project
- Kew’s Economic Botany collection in The State of the World’s Plants Report–2016. (2016). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew https://stateoftheworldsplants.org/2016/
Kew Backbone Distributions
- Brown, L.C. (1982). The Flora and Fauna of St Helena: 1-88. Land Resources Development Centre, Surbiton, England.
Useful Plants and Fungi of Colombia
- Bernal, R., Gradstein, S.R., & Celis, M. (eds.). (2020). Catálogo de Plantas y Líquenes de Colombia. v1.1. Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Dataset/Checklist. https://doi.org/10.15472/7avdhn
- Diazgranados et al. (2021). Catalogue of plants of Colombia. Useful Plants and Fungi of Colombia project. In prep.
- Diazgranados, M., Allkin, B., Black N., Cámara-Leret, R., Canteiro C., Carretero J., Eastwood R., Hargreaves S., Hudson A., Milliken W., Nesbitt, M., Ondo, I., Patmore, K., Pironon, S., Turner, R., Ulian, T. (2020). World Checklist of Useful Plant Species. Produced by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Knowledge Network for Biocomplexity.
- GBIF.org (2021). GBIF species matching tool. https://www.gbif.org/tools/species-lookup
- GRIN (2021). Germplasm Resources Information Network from the United States Department of Agriculture. https://www.ars-grin.gov/
- Medicinal Plant Names Services (MPNS) v.10 (2021); http://mpns.kew.org/
- PROTA (2021). Plants Resources of Tropical Africa. https://prota4u.org/database/
- RBG, Kew (2021). Kew Economic Botany Collection. https://ecbot.science.kew.org/
- Ulian, T., Sacandé, M., Hudson, A., & Mattana, E. (2017). Conservation of indigenous plants to support community livelihoods: the MGU–Useful Plants Project. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management 60:668-683.
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