Lepechinia

Lepechinia
Lepechinia calycina
Scientific classification Edit this 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]
  • Alguelaguen Feuillée ex Adans.
  • Alguelagum Kuntze
  • Astemon Regel
  • Chaunostoma Donn.Sm.
  • Mahya Cordem.
  • Neoeplingia Ramamoorthy, Hiriart & Medrano
  • Phytoxis Molina
  • Sphacele Benth.
  • Ulricia Jacq. ex Steud.

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]

  1. ^ "Genus: Lepechinia Willd". Germplasm Resources Information Network. United States Department of Agriculture. 2004-09-10. Retrieved 2011-02-17.
  2. ^ "Lepechinia Willd." Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 2024-02-23.
  3. ^ "Lepechinia Willd. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 17 October 2021.
  4. ^ "Lepechinia". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2011-02-17.
  5. ^ Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  6. ^ Hart, J. A. 1983. Systematic and evolutionary studies in the genus Lepechinia (Lamiaceae). Ph.D. thesis. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University.
  7. ^ Biota of North America Program 2013 county distribution maps
  8. ^ 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.
  9. ^ Drew, Bryan T. Sytsma, Kenneth J. 2011. Testing the Monophyly and Placement of Lepechinia in the Tribe Mentheae (Lamiaceae). Systematic Botany, 36: 1038-1049.