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Leonotis is a genus of flowering plants in the family Lamiaceae. One species, Leonotis nepetifolia, is native to tropical Africa and southern India. It is naturalized throughout most of the tropics. The other species are endemic to southern + eastern Africa.
Leonotis was named by Robert Brown in 1810 in Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae et Insulae Van Diemen. The name means "lion's ear".
The type for the genus is the specimen of Leonotis ocymifolia that was originally described as Leonotis leonitis. It is a specimen of Leonotis ocymifolia var. ocymifolia.
Leonotis leonurus and Leonotis nepetifolia seem to be mildly psychoactive, similar to cannabis albeit producing a far less potent and less intense "high"




Species


Leonotis decadonta Gürke - southeast Africa from Burundi + Tanzania south to Mozambique
Leonotis goetzei Gürke - Tanzania
Leonotis grandis Iwarsson & Y.B. Harvey - Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia
Leonotis leonurus (L.) Robert Brown - South Africa, Angola; naturalized in Burundi, Java, St. Helena
Leonotis myricifolia Iwarsson & Y.B. Harvey - Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia
Leonotis myrothamnifolia Iwarsson & Y.B. Harvey - Malawi, Zambia
Leonotis nepetifolia (L.) Robert Brown - sub-Saharan Africa from Ethiopia west to Senegal and south to Transvaal, also Indian subcontinent; naturalized in Morocco, Canary Islands, Southeast Asia, New Caledonia, French Polynesia, much of Latin America; West Indies
Leonotis ocymifolia (Burman f.) Iwarsson - eastern Africa from Sudan + Eritrea south to Transvaal
Leonotis pole-evansii Hutch. - Zambia




Taxonomy


Leonotis is a member of the subfamily Lamioideae. Leonotis might be paraphyletic or even polyphyletic because Leonotis leonurus is not closely related to the other species. In 2009, it was shown that Leonotis and 3 other genera are embedded in Leucas, a genus of about 100 species. If the 4 embedded genera were merged with Leucas, the expanded Leucas would have about 132 species.




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External links



Leonotis (page 504) In: Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae et Insulae Van Diemen At: bibliography/3678 At:Biodiversity Heritage Library
Leonotis At:Index Nominum Genericorum At: References At: NMNH Department of Botany
Classification for Kingdom Plantae Down to Genus Leonotis, United States Department of Agriculture
German Lion's-Tail Forum
IPNI Listing

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• Zimbabwe
• Lamiaceae
• Leonotis leonurus
• Leonotis
• Leonotis nepetifolia
• Leonurus cardiaca
• Leonotis ocymifolia
• Dagga
• Docosatetraenoylethanolamide
• Leonurine
• Lamiaceae
• List of Lamiaceae of South Africa