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Coleus amboinicus

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Name

Identification
Coleus amboinicus Lour. [family LAMIACEAE ] Plectranthus amboinicus (Lour.) Spreng. [family LAMIACEAE ] Verified by E. Launert, Plectranthus amboinicus (Lour.) Spreng. [family LAMIACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Somran Suddee, Coleus aromaticus Benth. [family LAMIACEAE ] Plectranthus aromaticus Roxb. [family LAMIACEAE ]
Related name
  • Plectranthus amboinicus
  • Plectranthus aromaticus
  • Plectranthus marrubioides
  • Coleus amboinicus
  • Coleus crassifolius
  • Coleus aromaticus

Flora

Entry for Coleus amboinicus Gürke var. violaceus [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 amboinicus Gürke var. violaceus [family LABIATAE], in Engl. Jahrb. xix. 210.
Coleus aromaticus Benth. [family LABIATAE], in DC. Prod. xii. 72; Lindl. in Bot. Reg. t. 1520; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. 625; Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 865.
Information
Stems shrubby at the base; branches thick, fleshy, pubescent. Leaves shortly petioled, ovate, acute, 1–2 in. long, rounded at the base, crenate, pubescent on both sides. Inflorescence racemose, long, lax, simple; whorls many-flowered; pedicels short; bracts ovate, acuminate. Calyx small, pubescent, campanulate, scarcely accrescent; upper tooth ovate-oblong, the others setaceous. Corolla violet or blue-violet, 1/3 in. long.
Range
Also in Tropical Asia.
Distribution
Angola Lower Guinea Loanda, Welwitsch, 5556!German East Africa Mozamb. Dist. Kilimanjaro; on the ridge of the crater at Lake Chala, 3000 ft., Volkens, 321! Usambara; at the foot of Rhinoceros Hill, by the ford of the Pangani, 2600 ft., Volkens, 487.

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