Lamiaceae
Leucas

Leucas vestita Benth.

First published in N.Wallich, Pl. Asiat. Rar. 1: 61 (1830)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is Bangladesh, S. India. It is an annual or subshrub and grows primarily in the seasonally dry tropical biome.

Distribution

Native to:

Bangladesh, India

Synonyms

Homotypic Synonyms

Accepted Infraspecifics

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.
  • Khanam, M. & Hassan, M.A. (2008). Lamiaceae. Flora of Bangladesh 58: 1-161. Bangladesh National Herbarium, Dhaka.
  • 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.

Kew Backbone Distributions

  • 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.

Other Data

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

Date Reference Identified As Barcode Type Status Has image?
Jan 1, 1924 Wight, R. [2551] K000929530 Yes
s.coll. [Cat. no. 2039] K001114954 Yes
De Silva, F. [Cat. no. 2039] K001114953 Yes
Wight, R. [2530], India K000929531 Unknown type material Yes
s.coll. [Cat. no. 2039], India K001114955 Yes

Sources

  • 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