External links to taxonomic opinions:
- IPNI Life Sciences Identifier (LSID)
- urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:68282-1
- Publication
- Flora Indica; or Descriptions of Indian Plants, by the Late William Roxburgh. Edited by William Carey, D.D., to Which are Added Descriptions of Plants More Recently Discovered by Nathaniel Wallich. Serampore, West Bengal, India
- Collation
- 2: 468
- Family as entered in IPNI
- Leeaceae
Type Information
- Distribution Of Types
- Nepal (Indian Subcontinent, Asia-Tropical)
Nomenclatural Notes
Status: nom. inval. provisional name (protologue: I have found a shrub in various parts of Nipal growing both on mountains and on valleys, and blossoming in the rainy season, which on the one hand approaches to L. crispa, and on the other to L. hirta. With the former it agrees in having somewhat crispate stem and branches and distinct anthers; with the latter in having villous, rather scabrous leaves. In my Mss. flora of Nipal I call it L. aspera, and may perhaps prove it to be a distinct species when I shall have an opportunity of comparing all the three shrubs together in this garden; but the genus labours under too many difficulties to warrant my increasing them by any doubtful addition.)