Lepechinia is a genus of plants in the mint family, Lamiaceae.[3] It includes several species of plants known commonly as pitchersages (also pitcher sages).[4] 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.[5][6][7] Many of them bear attractive pitcher-shaped flowers, often in shades of purple. The genus was named for the Russian botanist Ivan Ivanovich Lepechin.[8] In 2011, the two monotypic genera Chaunostoma and Neoeplingia were shown to be part of Lepechinia.[9]
Lepechinia | |
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Lepechinia calycina | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Asterids |
Order: | Lamiales |
Family: | Lamiaceae |
Subfamily: | Nepetoideae |
Tribe: | Mentheae |
Genus: | Lepechinia Willd.[1] |
Synonyms[2] | |
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Species
editAs of February 2024[update], Plants of the World Online accepted the following species:[2]
- Lepechinia annae (Taub. ex Schwacke) Brade
- Lepechinia anomala Epling - southern Brazil
- Lepechinia bella Epling - Bolivia
- Lepechinia betonicifolia (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 chilensis (Molina) R.Morales
- 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 graveolens (Regel) Epling
- 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 leucophylloides (Ramamoorthy, Hiriart & Medrano) B.T.Drew, Cacho & Sytsma - Hidalgo
- Lepechinia marica Epling & Mathias - Peru
- Lepechinia mecistandra (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 nubigena J.R.I.Wood & J.M.Mercado
- 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 rufocampi 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
References
edit- ^ "Genus: Lepechinia Willd". Germplasm Resources Information Network. United States Department of Agriculture. 2004-09-10. Retrieved 2011-02-17.
- ^ a b "Lepechinia Willd." Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 2024-02-23.
- ^ "Lepechinia Willd. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 17 October 2021.
- ^ "Lepechinia". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2011-02-17.
- ^ Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
- ^ 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
- ^ Burkhardt, Lotte (2018). Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen – Erweiterte Edition [Index of Eponymic Plant Names – Extended Edition] (pdf) (in German). Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2018. ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5. S2CID 187926901. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
- ^ Drew, Bryan T. Sytsma, Kenneth J. 2011. Testing the Monophyly and Placement of Lepechinia in the Tribe Mentheae (Lamiaceae). Systematic Botany, 36: 1038-1049.
External links
edit- Media related to Lepechinia at Wikimedia Commons
- Data related to Lepechinia at Wikispecies
- USDA Plants Profile: Lepechinia