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Leucas zeylanica - Flowers - Click to enlarge!

Flowers; Simpang Empat, West Sumatra, Indonesia; 8/1999 © Jörn Germer

Leucas zeylanica - Branch with flowers - Click to enlarge!

Branch with flowers; Simpang Empat, West Sumatra, Indonesia; 8/1999 © Jörn Germer

Leucas zeylanica - Habit - Click to enlarge!

Habit; Simpang Empat, West Sumatra, Indonesia; 8/1999 © Jörn Germer

Dataset

Identifier: 773
Date of entry: 10.04.2008
Last update: 11.01.2020

Common name

English: Ceylon slitwort

Mandarin: 绉面草 (zhou mian cao)

Classification

Kingdom: Plantae (2659)

  Phylum: Tracheophyta (2572)

    Class: Magnoliopsida (2167)

      Order: Lamiales (196)

        Family: Lamiaceae (97)(family description)

          Genus: Leucas (2)

            Epithet: zeylanica (L.) R.Br. (3)

zeylanica => from Sri Lanka (Ceylon)

Characteristics

Climate: tropical

Habitat: mesophytic

Habit: herb

Flower colour: white

External links

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World Flora Online, GBIF or IPNI

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