Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Lamiales Bromhead
Family
Labiatae Juss.
 Subordinate Taxa
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Leonurus L., Sp. Pl. 584 (1753)
 Description

Biennial or perennial herbs, sometimes rhizomatous. Lvs digitately lobed or undivided. Infl. spike-like, of many-flowered dense verticels, in crowded or distant axillary whorls. Bracts leaflike. Calyx campanulate, not gibbous at base, 5- or 10-nerved; teeth 5, spinose, subequal. Corolla 2-lipped; tube < calyx; throat not dilated; upper lip hooded, hairy on back; lower lip 3-lobed. Anthers parallel or divergent; cells opening by a common slit. Style gynobasic, its branches equal. Nutlets trigonous; apex truncate.

[From: Webb et al. (1988) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 4.]

 Biostatus
Exotic
Number of species in New Zealand within Leonurus L.
CategoryNumber
Exotic: Fully Naturalised1
Exotic: Casual1
Total2
 Bibliography
Linnaeus, C. 1753: Species Plantarum. Impensis Laurentii Salvii, Stockholm.
Mabberley, D.J. 2008: Mabberley's plant book, a portable dictionary of plants, their classification and uses. Edition 3. Cambridge University Press.