Entry for COLEUS glandulosus Hook. f. [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 glandulosusHook. f. [family LABIATAE], in Journ. Linn. Soc. vii. 211. —Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 361.
Information
A branched herb, with erect pubescent slender stems 5–6 ft. long. Leaves sessile or nearly sessile, ovate, crenate, pubescent, not at all fleshy, densely gland-dotted, 1–1 1/2 in. long. Panicles racemose, of few distant many-flowered globose whorls; bracts small, foliaceous; pedicels short. Fruit-calyx 1/4 in. long, pilose; upper tooth ovate; 4 lower narrow, acute. Corolla 1/4– 1/3 in. long; lips nearly or quite as long as the tube.
