Lepechinia
| Lepechinia | |
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| Lepechinia calycina | |
| Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae | 
| Clade: | Tracheophytes | 
| Clade: | Angiosperms | 
| Clade: | Eudicots | 
| Clade: | Asterids | 
| Order: | Lamiales | 
| Family: | Lamiaceae | 
| Subfamily: | Nepetoideae | 
| Tribe: | Mentheae | 
| Genus: | Willd.[1]  | 
| Synonyms[2] | |
 
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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]
Species
As of February 2024, Plants of the World Online accepted the following species:[2]
- Lepechinia annae (Taub. ex Schwacke) Brade
 - Lepechinia anomala Epling - southern Brazil
 - Lepechinia bella Epling - Bolivia
 - Lepechinia betonicifolia (Lam.) Epling - Colombia, Ecuador
 - Lepechinia bullata (Kunth) Epling - Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela
 - Lepechinia calycina (Benth.) Epling ex Munz – pitcher sage, woodbalm - California (Coast Ranges + northern Sierra Nevada)
 - Lepechinia cardiophylla Epling – Santa Ana pitcher sage - southern California, Baja California
 - Lepechinia caulescens (Ortega) Epling - Mexico, Guatemala
 - Lepechinia chilensis (Molina) R.Morales
 - Lepechinia cocuyensis J.R.I.Wood - Colombia
 - Lepechinia codon Epling - Peru
 - Lepechinia conferta (Benth.) Epling - Colombia, Venezuela
 - Lepechinia dioica J.A.Hart - Ecuador
 - Lepechinia flammea Mart.Gord. & Lozada-Pérez - Guerrero
 - Lepechinia floribunda (Benth.) Epling - Peru, Bolivia, Argentina
 - Lepechinia fragrans (Greene) Epling – island pitcher sage, fragrant pitcher sage - southern California including offshore Channel Islands
 - Lepechinia ganderi Epling – San Diego pitcher sage - southern California, Baja California
 - Lepechinia glomerata Epling - Jalisco
 - Lepechinia graveolens (Regel) Epling
 - Lepechinia hastata (A.Gray) Epling – pakata - Baja California and Baja California Sur, including Revillagigedo Islands; naturalized in Hawaii
 - Lepechinia heteromorpha (Briq.) Epling - Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia
 - Lepechinia lamiifolia (Benth.) Epling - Ecuador, Peru
 - Lepechinia lancifolia (Rusby) Epling - Bolivia
 - Lepechinia leucophylloides (Ramamoorthy, Hiriart & Medrano) B.T.Drew, Cacho & Sytsma - Hidalgo
 - Lepechinia marica Epling & Mathias - Peru
 - Lepechinia mecistandra (Donn.Sm.) H.K.Moon - Chiapas, Guatemala, El Salvador
 - Lepechinia mexicana (S.Schauer) Epling - central + northeastern Mexico
 - Lepechinia meyenii (Walp.) Epling - Peru, Bolivia, Argentina
 - Lepechinia mollis (Epling) Epling - Peru
 - Lepechinia mutica (Benth.) Epling - Ecuador
 - Lepechinia nelsonii (Fernald) Epling - central + southern Mexico
 - Lepechinia nubigena J.R.I.Wood & J.M.Mercado
 - Lepechinia paniculata (Kunth) Epling - Ecuador
 - Lepechinia radula (Benth.) Epling - Ecuador, Peru
 - Lepechinia rossii S.Boyd & Mistretta – Ross' pitcher sage - southern California (Los Angeles + Ventura Counties)
 - Lepechinia rufocampi Epling & Mathias - Ecuador
 - Lepechinia salviae (Lindl.) Epling - Chile
 - Lepechinia salviifolia (Kunth) Epling - Colombia, Venezuela
 - Lepechinia schiedeana (Schltdl.) Vatke - Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela
 - Lepechinia scobina Epling - Peru
 - Lepechinia speciosa (A.St.-Hil. ex Benth.) Epling - southern Brazil
 - Lepechinia tomentosa (Benth.) Epling - Peru
 - Lepechinia urbani (Briq.) Epling - Hispaniola
 - Lepechinia velutina J.R.I.Wood - Colombia
 - Lepechinia vesiculosa (Benth.) Epling - Peru, Bolivia, Argentina
 - Lepechinia vulcanicola J.R.I.Wood - Colombia
 - Lepechinia yecorana Henrickson, Fishbein & T.Van Devender - Sonora
 
References
- ^ "Genus: Lepechinia Willd". Germplasm Resources Information Network. United States Department of Agriculture. 2004-09-10. Retrieved 2011-02-17.
 - ^ a b "Lepechinia Willd." Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 2024-02-23.
 - ^ "Lepechinia Willd. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 17 October 2021.
 - ^ "Lepechinia". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2011-02-17.
 - ^ Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
 - ^ Hart, J. A. 1983. Systematic and evolutionary studies in the genus Lepechinia (Lamiaceae). Ph.D. thesis. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University.
 - ^ Biota of North America Program 2013 county distribution maps
 - ^ 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.
 - ^ Drew, Bryan T. Sytsma, Kenneth J. 2011. Testing the Monophyly and Placement of Lepechinia in the Tribe Mentheae (Lamiaceae). Systematic Botany, 36: 1038-1049.
 
External links
 Media related to Lepechinia at Wikimedia Commons
 Data related to Lepechinia at Wikispecies- USDA Plants Profile: Lepechinia
 
