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Coleus montanus

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Name

Identification
Coleus tenuicaulis Hook. f. [family LABIATAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet, Isotype of Coleus montanus Gürke [family LABIATAE ] Verified by Not on sheet,
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  • Coleus montanus
  • Coleus tenuicaulis

Flora

Entry for Coleus montanus Gürke [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 montanus Gürke [family LABIATAE], in Engl. Jahrb. xix. 218.
Information
Stems branched, pubescent, 1 1/2–2 ft. long. Leaves oblong or ovate-oblong, 1–1 1/2 in. long, the upper sessile, the lower shortly stalked, acute, rounded or narrowed to the base, crenate, pubescent on both sides, dotted with black glands beneath. Inflorescence racemose, lax; cymes long-peduncled, 3–5-flowered; bracts broadly ovate; pedicels 1/8– 1/5 in. long. Fruit-calyx 1/6 in. long, glandular-pubescent outside, naked on the throat inside; upper tooth round-ovate, obtuse; lateral teeth rather shorter, lanceolate, acuminate; lower longer, almost subulate.
Distribution
Cameroons Upper Guinea near Buea, 7000 ft., Preuss, 1012.

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