Isodon lophanthoides(Buch.-Ham. ex D.Don) H.Hara

WFO wfo-0000217900 Accepted WFO 2026-06 6 photographs CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–f · 1 observation

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 1 time, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Isodon lophanthoides, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. a Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2015-10-25 / obs. 181178864
Isodon lophanthoides, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. b Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 181178866
Isodon lophanthoides, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. c Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 181178868
Isodon lophanthoides, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. d Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 181178869
Isodon lophanthoides, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. e Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 181178870
Isodon lophanthoides, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. f Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 181178872

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Native range 15 botanical countries

Regions where Isodon lophanthoides is native: China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Tibet, Assam, Bangladesh, East Himalaya, India, Laos, Malaya, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, Vietnam, West Himalaya China North-CentralChina South-CentralChina SoutheastTibetAssamBangladeshEast HimalayaIndiaLaosMalayaMyanmarNepalThailandVietnamWest Himalaya
Native distribution of Isodon lophanthoides, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Assam ASS ASIA-TROPICAL
Bangladesh BAN
East Himalaya EHM
India IND
Laos LAO
Malaya MLY
Myanmar MYA
Nepal NEP
Thailand THA
Vietnam VIE
West Himalaya WHM
China North-Central CHN ASIA-TEMPERATE
China South-Central CHC
China Southeast CHS
Tibet CHT

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 39 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Hyssopus lophanthoides Buch.-Ham. ex D.Don
  • Isodon lophanthoides var. brachyanthus (Hook.f.) B.G.Kulk., Lakshmin. & Das Das
  • Isodon lophanthoides var. gerardianus (Hand.-Mazz.) H.Hara
  • Isodon lophanthoides var. kerrii (Doan) A.L.Budantzev
  • Isodon lophanthoides var. micranthus (C.Y.Wu) H.W.Li
  • Isodon shimizuanus (Murata) H.Hara
  • Isodon striatus (Benth.) Kudô
  • Isodon volkensianus (Muschl.) Murata
  • Orthosiphon bodinieri Vaniot
  • Orthosiphon glabrescens Vaniot
  • Plectranthus esquirolii H.Lév.
  • Plectranthus fangii Y.Z.Sun
  • Plectranthus gerardianus Benth.
  • Plectranthus gerardianus var. brachyanthus Hook.f.
  • Plectranthus gerardianus var. graciliflorus (Benth.) Hook.f.
  • Plectranthus graciliflorus Benth.
  • Plectranthus hispidus var. glabrior Benth.
  • Plectranthus lophanthoides (Buch.-Ham. ex D.Don) Grierson & D.G.Long
  • Plectranthus lophanthoides var. gerardianus (Hand.-Mazz.) Bennet
  • Plectranthus lophanthoides var. graciliflorus (Benth.) Bennet
  • Plectranthus oblongifolius Wall. ex Benth.
  • Plectranthus stocksii Hook.f.
  • Plectranthus striatus Hook.f. & Thomson
  • Plectranthus striatus Benth.

and 15 more.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.