Leucas
Leucas lavandulifolia
Description 2
Herbs erect, 0.2-1 m tall, much branched from base, mostly gray pubescent. Stems slender. Petiole short to almost absent; leaf blade oblong-linear, linear-lanceolate, or linear, 2.5-7 × 1.5-1.2 cm, pubescent, base cuneate-attenuate, margin entire or sparsely undulate-serrate, apex obtuse, lateral veins 2 or 3 pairs. Verticillasters many flowered, 1.5-2.5 cm in diam.; bracts linear, shorter than calyx tube, apex spinescent. Calyx obovoid, ca. 0.5 mm, densely pubescent outside, glabrous except for apex inside, veins inconspicuous, mouth oblique; teeth irregular, upper tooth largest. Corolla white, ca. 1.5 cm; tube ca. 9 mm, villous near enlarged throat outside, slightly villous annulate inside; lower lip horizontal, ca. 2 × as long as adaxial, slightly villous at base outside, glabrous inside, lateral lobes small. Nutlets brown, ovoid. Fl. Oct-Dec, fr. Dec-Jan.
Sources and Credits
- (c) Dinesh Valke, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-ND), https://www.flickr.com/photos/dinesh_valke/517437888/
- (c) Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Boulevard, St. Louis, MO, 63110 USA, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), http://eol.org/data_objects/4985232
More Info
- iNat taxon page
- African Plants - a photo guide
- Atlas of Living Australia
- Biodiversity Heritage Library
- BOLD Systems BIN search
- eFloras.org
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
- HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants
- IPNI (with links to POWO, WFO, and BHL)
- Kerala Plants
- SEINet Symbiota portals
- Tropicos
- World Flora Online
