⚠ Version 1 of The Plant List has been superseded.

You should refer instead to the current version of The Plant List.

The genus Leucas is in the family Lamiaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Leucas

• Jump to species starting with:
• A
• B
• C
• D
• E
• F
• G
• H
• I
• J
• K
• L
• M
• N
• O
• P
• R
• S
• T
• U
• V
• W
• Z

See "Status", "Confidence level", "Source" for definitions.

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Leucas abyssinica (Benth.) Briq.	Accepted		WCSP
Leucas aequistylosa Sebald	Accepted		WCSP
Leucas aggerestris (Wild) Sebald	Accepted		WCSP
Leucas alba (Forssk.) Sebald	Accepted		WCSP
Leucas alluaudii Sacteux	Accepted		WCSP
Leucas anandaraoana Umam.Rao & P.Daniel	Accepted		WCSP
Leucas angularis Benth.	Accepted		WCSP
Leucas angustissima Sedgw.	Accepted		WCSP
Leucas argentea Gürke	Accepted		WCSP
Leucas aspera (Willd.) Link	Accepted		WCSP
Leucas bakeri Hiern	Accepted		WCSP
Leucas beddomei (Hook.f.) Sunojk. & P.Mathew	Accepted		WCSP
Leucas biflora (Vahl) R.Br. ex Sm.	Accepted		WCSP
Leucas bracteosa Gürke	Accepted		WCSP
Leucas calostachys Oliv.	Accepted		WCSP
Leucas capensis (Benth.) Engl.	Accepted		WCSP
Leucas cephalotes (Roth) Spreng.	Accepted		WCSP
Leucas chinensis (Retz.) R.Br. ex Sm.	Accepted		WCSP
Leucas ciliata Benth.	Accepted		WCSP
Leucas clarkei Hook.f.	Accepted		WCSP
Leucas collettii Prain	Accepted		WCSP
Leucas cuneifolia Baker	Accepted		WCSP
Leucas decemdentata (Willd.) Sm.	Accepted		WCSP
Leucas deflexa Hook.f.	Accepted		WCSP
Leucas densiflora Vatke	Accepted		WCSP
Leucas deodikarii Billmore & Hemadri	Accepted		WCSP
Leucas dhofarensis Hedge & Sebald	Accepted		WCSP
Leucas diffusa Benth.	Accepted		WCSP
Leucas discolor Sebald	Accepted		WCSP
Leucas ebracteata Peyr.	Accepted		WCSP
Leucas eriostoma Hook.f.	Accepted		WCSP
Leucas flagellifera (Balf.f.) Gürke	Accepted		WCSP
Leucas glabrata (Vahl) R.Br. ex Sm.	Accepted		WCSP
Leucas grandis Vatke	Accepted		WCSP
Leucas hagghierensis Al-Gifri & Cortés-Burns	Accepted		WCSP
Leucas helferi Hook.f.	Accepted		WCSP
Leucas helianthemifolia Desf.	Accepted		WCSP
Leucas helicterifolia Haines	Accepted		WCSP
Leucas hephaestis (Wild) Sebald	Accepted		WCSP
Leucas hirta (B.Heyne ex Roth) Spreng.	Accepted		WCSP
Leucas hirundinaris Sebald	Accepted		WCSP
Leucas hyssopifolia Benth.	Accepted		WCSP
Leucas inflata Benth.	Accepted		WCSP
Leucas jamesii Baker	Accepted		WCSP
Leucas kishenensis (Radcl.-Sm.) Sebald	Accepted		WCSP
Leucas lamiifolia Desf.	Accepted		WCSP
Leucas lanata Benth.	Accepted		WCSP
Leucas lanceifolia Desf.	Accepted		WCSP
Leucas lavandulifolia Sm.	Accepted		WCSP
Leucas longifolia Benth.	Accepted		WCSP
Leucas macrantha Blatt. & Hallb.	Accepted		WCSP
Leucas manipurensis N.P.Singh	Accepted		WCSP
Leucas marrubioides Desf.	Accepted		WCSP
Leucas martinicensis (Jacq.) R.Br.	Accepted		WCSP
Leucas masaiensis Oliv.	Accepted		WCSP
Leucas menthifolia Baker	Accepted		WCSP
Leucas milanjiana Gürke	Accepted		WCSP
Leucas minimifolia Chiov.	Accepted		WCSP
Leucas montana (Roth) Spreng.	Accepted		WCSP
Leucas mukerjiana Subba Rao & Kumari	Accepted		WCSP
Leucas mwingensis Sebald	Accepted		WCSP
Leucas nepetifolia Benth.	Accepted		WCSP
Leucas neufliseana Courbai	Accepted		WCSP
Leucas nubica Benth.	Accepted		WCSP
Leucas nutans (Roth) Spreng.	Accepted		WCSP
Leucas nyassae Gürke	Accepted		WCSP
Leucas oligocephala Hook.f.	Accepted		WCSP
Leucas ovata Benth.	Accepted		WCSP
Leucas pearsonii Sebald	Accepted		WCSP
Leucas pechuelii (Kuntze) Baker	Accepted		WCSP
Leucas penduliflora Al-Gifri & Cortés-Burns	Accepted		WCSP
Leucas pilosa Benth.	Accepted		WCSP
Leucas prostrata (Hook.f.) Gamble	Accepted		WCSP
Leucas pubescens Benth.	Accepted		WCSP
Leucas rosmarinifolia Benth.	Accepted		WCSP
Leucas royleoides (Benth.) Gürke	Accepted		WCSP
Leucas ruspoliana Gürke	Accepted		WCSP
Leucas samhaensis Cortés-Burns & A.G.Mill.	Accepted		WCSP
Leucas schliebenii Sebald	Accepted		WCSP
Leucas sebaldiana Sunojk.	Accepted		WCSP
Leucas sexdentata Skan	Accepted		WCSP
Leucas sivadasaniana Sunojk.	Accepted		WCSP
Leucas somalensis Vatke	Accepted		WCSP
Leucas songeana Sebald	Accepted		WCSP
Leucas spiculifolia (Balf.f.) Gürke	Accepted		WCSP
Leucas stachydiformis (Benth.) Hochst. ex Briq.	Accepted		WCSP
Leucas stelligera Wall. ex Benth.	Accepted		WCSP
Leucas stormsii Gürke	Accepted		WCSP
Leucas stricta Benth.	Accepted		WCSP
Leucas subarcuata Sebald	Accepted		WCSP
Leucas suffruticosa Benth.	Accepted		WCSP
Leucas teres Benth.	Accepted		WCSP
Leucas tettensis Vatke	Accepted		WCSP
Leucas tomentosa Gürke	Accepted		WCSP
Leucas tsavoensis Sebald	Accepted		WCSP
Leucas urticifolia (Vahl) R.Br. ex Sm.	Accepted		WCSP
Leucas urundensis Robyns & Lebrun	Accepted		WCSP
Leucas usagarensis Gürke	Accepted		WCSP
Leucas vestita Benth.	Accepted		WCSP
Leucas virgata Balf.f.	Accepted		WCSP
Leucas volkensii Gürke	Accepted		WCSP
Leucas welwitschii Gürke	Accepted		WCSP
Leucas wightiana Wall. ex Benth.	Accepted		WCSP
Leucas wilsonii Sebald	Accepted		WCSP
Leucas zeylanica (L.) W.T.Aiton	Accepted		WCSP

Statistics

The Plant List includes 237 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Leucas. Of these 105 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 91 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Leucas. We do not intend The Plant List to be complete for names of infraspecific rank. These are primarily included because names of species rank are synonyms of accepted infraspecific names.

Species names

The status of the 237 species names for the genus Leucas recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	105	44.3%
◕	Synonym	120	50.6%
◕	Unplaced	5	2.1%
◕	Unassessed	7	3.0%

All names

The status of the 328 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Leucas recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	143	43.6%
◕	Synonym	172	52.4%
◕	Unplaced	5	1.5%
◕	Unassessed	8	2.4%

Of these names,

• 5 are recorded as invalid
• 6 are recorded as illegitimate

The confidence with which the status of the 237 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Leucas, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	105	115	0	0	220	92.8%
	Medium confidence	0	5	0	0	5	2.1%
	Low confidence	0	0	5	7	12	5.1%

The source of the species name record found in The Plant List for the genus Leucas, are as follows: