Lamiaceae
Leucas

Leucas grandis Vatke

First published in Linnaea 53: 96 (1881)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is Kenya to Rwanda and N. Tanzania. It is a subshrub or shrub and grows primarily in the wet tropical biome.

Distribution

Native to:

Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania

Introduced into:

Comoros

Synonyms

Heterotypic Synonyms

Publications

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

  • Govaerts, R. (2003). World Checklist of Selected Plant Families Database in ACCESS: 1-216203. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  • Paton, A.J., Bramley, G., Ryding, O., Polhill, R., Harvey, Y., Iwarsson, M., Willis, F., Phillipson, P., Balkwill, K., Lukhoba, C., Otiend, D & Harley (2009). Lamiaceae (Labiatae). Flora of Tropical East Africa: 1-430.

Kew Backbone Distributions

  • Barthelat, F. (2019). La flore illustrée de Mayotte: 1-687. Biotope éditions.

Flora of Tropical East Africa

  • Blundell, Wild Fl. E. Afr.: 403, t. 136 (1987)
  • K.T.S.L.: 629 (1994)
  • Linnaea 53: 96 (1881)
  • Stuttgarter Beitr. Naturk., ser. A, 341: 115 (1980)
  • U.K.W.F. ed. 2: 286 (1994).

Other Data

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

Date Reference Identified As Barcode Type Status Has image?
Jan 1, 2009 Mwangoka [4593], Tanzania K000248577 No
Jan 1, 1976 Holst, C. [9100], Tanzania K000975958 neotype Yes
Johnston, H.H. [s.n.], Kenya Leucas leucotricha K000414860 Yes
Johnston, H.H. [s.n.], Kenya Leucas leucotricha K000193200 Unknown type material Yes
Jan 1, 1976 Scott Elliot, G.F. [6748], Kenya Leucas mollis K000193204 Unknown type material Yes

Sources

  • Flora of Tropical East Africa

    • Flora of Tropical East Africa
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Herbarium Catalogue Specimens

    • Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2023. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2022 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2023. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2022 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Science Photographs

    • Copyright applied to individual images