Lepechinia
Lepechinia | |
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Lepechinia calycina | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
(unranked): | Angiosperms |
(unranked): | Eudicots |
(unranked): | Asterids |
Order: | Lamiales |
Family: | Lamiaceae |
Subfamily: | Nepetoideae |
Tribe: | Mentheae |
Subtribe: | Salviinae |
Genus: | Lepechinia Willd.[1] |
Synonyms[2] | |
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Lepechinia is a genus of plants in the mint family, Lamiaceae. It includes several species of plants known commonly as pitchersages (also pitcher sages).[3] Plants of this genus can be found in Central and South America, Mexico, California, Hispaniola, and Hawaii, although the species in Hawaii is probably a human introduction.[2][4][5] Many of them bear attractive pitcher-shaped flowers, often in shades of purple. The genus was named for the Russian botanist Ivan Ivanovich Lepechin. Recently, the two monotypic genera Chaunostoma and Neoeplingia were shown to be part of Lepechinia.[6]
- Species[2]
- Lepechinia anomala Epling - southern Brazil
- Lepechinia bella Epling - Bolivia
- Lepechinia betonicaefolia (Lam.) Epling - Colombia, Ecuador
- Lepechinia bullata (Kunth) Epling - Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela
- Lepechinia calycina (Benth.) Epling ex Munz – pitcher sage, woodbalm - California (Coast Ranges + northern Sierra Nevada)
- Lepechinia cardiophylla Epling – Santa Ana pitcher sage - southern California, Baja California
- Lepechinia caulescens (Ortega) Epling - Mexico, Guatemala
- Lepechinia chamaedryoides (Balb.) Epling - Chile
- Lepechinia cocuyensis J.R.I.Wood - Colombia
- Lepechinia codon Epling - Peru
- Lepechinia conferta (Benth.) Epling - Colombia, Venezuela
- Lepechinia dioica J.A.Hart - Ecuador
- Lepechinia flammea Mart.Gord. & Lozada-Pérez - Guerrero
- Lepechinia floribunda (Benth.) Epling - Peru, Bolivia, Argentina
- Lepechinia fragrans (Greene) Epling – island pitcher sage, fragrant pitcher sage - southern California including offshore Channel Islands
- Lepechinia ganderi Epling – San Diego pitcher sage - southern California, Baja California
- Lepechinia glomerata Epling - Jalisco
- Lepechinia hastata (A.Gray) Epling – pakata - Baja California and Baja California Sur, including Revillagigedo Islands; naturalized in Hawaii
- Lepechinia heteromorpha (Briq.) Epling - Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia
- Lepechinia lamiifolia (Benth.) Epling - Ecuador, Peru
- Lepechinia lancifolia (Rusby) Epling - Bolivia
- Lepechinia marica Epling & Mathias - Peru
- Lepechinia mecistandrum (Donn.Sm.) H.K.Moon - Chiapas, Guatemala, El Salvador
- Lepechinia mexicana (S.Schauer) Epling - central + northeastern Mexico
- Lepechinia meyenii (Walp.) Epling - Peru, Bolivia, Argentina
- Lepechinia mollis (Epling) Epling - Peru
- Lepechinia mutica (Benth.) Epling - Ecuador
- Lepechinia nelsonii (Fernald) Epling - central + southern Mexico
- Lepechinia paniculata (Kunth) Epling - Ecuador
- Lepechinia radula (Benth.) Epling - Ecuador, Peru
- Lepechinia rossii S.Boyd & Mistretta – Ross' pitcher sage - southern California (Los Angeles + Ventura Counties)
- Lepechinia rufocampii Epling & Mathias - Ecuador
- Lepechinia salviae (Lindl.) Epling - Chile
- Lepechinia salviifolia (Kunth) Epling - Colombia, Venezuela
- Lepechinia schiedeana (Schltdl.) Vatke - Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela
- Lepechinia scobina Epling - Peru
- Lepechinia speciosa (A.St.-Hil. ex Benth.) Epling - southern Brazil
- Lepechinia tomentosa (Benth.) Epling - Peru
- Lepechinia urbani (Briq.) Epling - Hispaniola
- Lepechinia velutina J.R.I.Wood - Colombia
- Lepechinia vesiculosa (Benth.) Epling - Peru, Bolivia, Argentina
- Lepechinia vulcanicola J.R.I.Wood - Colombia
- Lepechinia yecorana Henrickson, Fishbein & T.Van Devender - Sonora
It is been suggested that the following species should be transferred to Lepechinia, however, to date (August 2014), no formal recombination statement has been published:[2][6]
- Neoeplingia leucophylloides Ramamoorthy, Hiriart & Medrano - Hidalgo
References
- ↑ "Genus: Lepechinia Willd.". Germplasm Resources Information Network. United States Department of Agriculture. 2004-09-10. Retrieved 2011-02-17.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
- ↑ "Lepechinia". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2011-02-17.
- ↑ Hart, J. A. 1983. Systematic and evolutionary studies in the genus Lepechinia (Lamiaceae). Ph.D. thesis. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University.
- ↑ Biota of North America Program 2013 county distribution maps
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Drew, Bryan T. Sytsma, Kenneth J. 2011. Testing the Monophyly and Placement of Lepechinia in the Tribe Mentheae (Lamiaceae). Systematic Botany, 36: 1038-1049.
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