Leonotis is a genus of flowering plants in the family Lamiaceae.

[2] One species, Leonotis nepetifolia, is native to tropical Africa and southern India.

The other species are endemic to southern + eastern Africa.

[1][3] Leonotis was named by Robert Brown in 1810 in Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae et Insulae Van Diemen.

[6] In 2009, it was shown that Leonotis and 3 other genera are embedded in Leucas,[6] a genus of about 100 species.