Neoeplingia

Neoeplingia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Asterids
Order: Lamiales
Family: Lamiaceae
Genus: Neoeplingia
Ramamoorthy, Hiriart & Medrano
Species: N. leucophylloides
Binomial name
Neoeplingia leucophylloides
Ramamoorthy, Hiriart & Medrano

Neoeplingia is a genus of flowering plant in the Lamiaceae family, first described in 1982. It contains only one known species, Neoeplingia leucophylloide, endemic to the State of Hidalgo in central Mexico.[1]

N. leucophylloides has been transferred to Lepechinia.[1][2][3]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  2. Drew, Bryan T. Sytsma, Kenneth J. 2011. Testing the Monophyly and Placement of Lepechinia in the Tribe Mentheae (Lamiaceae). Systematic Botany, 36: 1038-1049.
  3. Drew, Bryan T.; Cacho, N. Ivalú; Sytsma, Kenneth J. 2014. The transfer of two rare monotypic genera, Neoeplingia and Chaunostoma, to Lepechinia (Lamiaceae), and notes on their conservation. Taxon, Volume 63, Number 4, pp. 831-842(12)