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Identification
Coleus mirabilis Briq. [family LAMIACEAE ]
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Entry for Coleus mirabilis Briquet [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 mirabilis Briquet [family LABIATAE], in Engl. Jahrb. xix. 183.
Information
A tall shrub, with robust branches clothed with grey down. Leaves petioled, lanceolate, 2–3 in. long, acute, narrowed to the base, regularly crenate, green and pubescent above, clothed with white tomentum beneath. Inflorescence racemose, long; whorls close, peduncled; bracts chartaceous, ovate, acuminate, imbricate in bud. Calyx violet, 1/4 in. long in the flowering stage; tube campanulate; upper tooth lanceolate, the others short, ovate-lanceolate. Corolla dark blue, protruding above 1/2 in. from the throat of the calyx; lower lip 1/3 in. long. Stamens included or shortly exserted.
Distribution
Angola Lower Guinea at Lumsuneya Brook, between Malange and the River Kuango, Mechow; in a swamp at Malange, Mechow, 489; in a moorland waste below Moma, near Malange, Buchner, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85.Congo South Central Lunda; by the Lulua River, Pogge, 350.
Notes
Briquet, l. c. 184, describes 4 varieties—viz., mechowianus (Mechow, no number); poggeanus (Pogge, 350); hypisodontus (Mechow, 489); and buchnerianus (Buchner, 81 to 85).

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