Leucosceptrum canum Sm.

A honey plant.

Plants 1.5-7 m tall, bark gray-yellow or brown, exfoliating; branches densely gray or yellowish tomentose when young, brownish, puberulent or subglabrous with age. Petiole 1.5-3(-4.5) cm, densely yellowish tomentose; leaf blade elliptic-lanceolate, 10-23 × 5-9 cm, papery, densely gray or yellowish tomentose-stellate/floccose when young, adaxially glabrescent or puberulent on midrib, base cuneate, margin serrate or sometimes crenate, apex acuminate. Spikes 10-13 cm, dense, cylindric, densely stellate-tomentose; verticillasters 6- to many flowered; bracts acute, margin entire or irregularly crenate, deciduous in fruit. Pedicel ca. 1 mm. Calyx 6-8 mm, densely yellowish stellate-tomentose, tuberculate, glabrous inside, teeth to 1.5 mm. Corolla 8-9 mm, stellate-tomentose outside. Nutlets smooth abaxially, with sparse ± transparent tubercles adaxially. Fl. Nov-Mar, fr. Mar-May.

Hinmalaya (Kumaun to Bhutan), Assam, Burma, S. W. China(Yunnan).

Sichuan, Xizang, Yunnan [Bhutan, India, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Vietnam]

1000-2800 m

Dry open waste areas, forest margins, valley streamsides, second growth forests, thickets; 1000-2600 m.

Clerodendrum leucosceptrum D. Don; Comanthosphace nepalensis Kitamura & Murata; Teucrium macrostachyum Wallich ex Bentham.

Leucosceptrum canum là một loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Hoa môi. Loài này được Sm. mô tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1806.

米团花（学名：Leucosceptrum canum）为唇形科米团花属下的一个种。