Leucas linifolia
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Description
Erect, fetid, annual herb, 30-80 cm, often much-branched.
Leaves herbaceous, linear-lanceolate, rarely lanceolate, 4-6 by c. 0.5 cm, subsessile, acuminate, base attenuate, entire, margin elsewhere subentire or remotely and sparingly serrate.
Flowers shortly pedicelled, in terminal and axillary, always leafy verticillasters, often congested towards apex and forming a cluster or clusters 1.5-2 cm Ø.
Distribution
Asia-Temperate, Asia-Tropical: India present; New Guinea present, Bawean I present, Borneo mainland present, Lesser Sunda Is, Mascarenes present, Misool I present, Morobe Distr present, continental Asia present
Continental Asia (India to China) and throughout Malesia, though not yet collected in the Lesser Sunda Is.; once collected in Bawean I., and very rare in Borneo mainland and New Guinea (in Misool I. and once in Morobe Distr.). According to MERRILL also in the Mascarenes.
Notes
Smith's name is illegitimate as a superfluous name since he cited Leonurus indicus L. as a synonym. Leonurus indicus can no longer be transferred to Leucas, because of L. indica R.Br, ex Spreng., based on Phlomis indicus L.
Citation
J. SM. 1918: Sp. Blanc.: 336
BLANCO 1837: Fl. Filip.: 475
FOSBERG& SACHET 1981 – In: Smithson. Contr. Bot.: 25
KENG 1978 – In: Fl. Males.: 338
Bl. 1878 – In: Fl. Filip., ed. 3: 248
Bl. 1826: Bijdr.: 829
VIDAL 1885: Phan. Cuming. Philip.: 136
VIDAL 1886: Rev. Pl. Vasc. Filip.: 214
COSTERUS & 1922 – In: J.J. SM. Ann. Jard. Bot. Btzg: 29
BACK. & BAKH.F. 1965 – In: Fl. Java: 623
Hook.f. 1885 – In: Fl. Br. Ind.: 690
Koord. 1912 – In: Exk. Fl. Java: 146
J. SM. 1917: Int. Rumph.: 457
J. SM. 1973: Atlas: t. 529
ZOLL. 1845 – In: Nat. Geneesk. Arch. N. I.: 591
Bl. 1845: Fl. Filip., ed. 2: 331
BTH. 1835: Lab. Gen. Sp.: 744
BTH. 1848 – In: DC., Prod. 12: 533
BTH. 1834: Lab. Gen. Sp.: 617
BTH. 1835: Lab. Gen. Sp.: 744
Merr. 1923 – In: En Philip.: 411
QUIS. 1951: Medic. Pl. Philip.: 820
STEEN. 1932: Arch. Hydrobiol.: 323
Ridl. 1923 – In: Fl. Mal. Pen.: 650
F.-VILL. 1880: Nov. App.: 165
PRAIN 1907 – In: J. As. Soc. Beng.: 719
BTH. 1834: Lab. Gen. Sp.: 617
KENG 1969 – In: Gard. Bull. Sing.: 103
BURK. 1935: Dict.: 1338
Miq. 1859 – In: Fl. Ind. Bat.: 983
MUKERJEE 1940 – In: Rec. Bot. Surv. India: 167
HASSK. 1844: Cat. Hort. Bog.: 133
BACK. 1931: Onkr. Suiker.: 557
Merr. 1912: Fl. Manila: 412