Coleus aconitiflorusWelw. ex Hiern [family LAMIACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
Plectranthus hereroensis
Isodon unrecorded
Coleus aconitiflorus
Flora
Entry for Coleus aconitiflorus Welw. ex Hiern [family LABIATAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 5, page 332, (1900) Author: (by J. G. Baker)
Names
Coleus aconitiflorusWelw. ex Hiern [family LABIATAE], in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 866.
Information
A tall much-branched herb, 3–4 ft. high, with square glabrous stems and ascending branches. Leaves long-petioled, oblong, membranous, crenate, glabrous, cuneate and entire at the base, the lower 3–4 in. long, 1 1/2–2 in. broad at the middle. Branches each bearing at the end a long lax narrow panicle, with several flowers crowded at the end of the short erecto-patent branchlets; pedicels very short; bracts minute. Calyx campanulate, pubescent, 1/12– 1/8 in. long; teeth ovate, small, subequal. Corolla 1/2 in. long; tube slender, much longer than the calyx.
Distribution
Angola Lower Guinea province of Huilla; at Lopollo, Welwitsch, 5495!
