Entry for Coleus Penzigii Dammann [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 PenzigiiDammann [family LABIATAE], in Gartenfl. 1892, 525. —Gard. Chron. xiv. (1893) 616; Notizb. König. bot. Gart. Berlin, 1895, 7.
Information
A perennial herb, with stoutish stems, clothed with fine spreading white hairs. Leaves ovate, crenate, membranous, finely hairy, especially below, narrowed suddenly to a petiole which is winged down to the base, the lower 3–4 in. long. Whorls simple, lax, 8-flowered, forming a lax long racemose panicle; bracts small, deciduous; pedicels unequal, hairy, the longest 1/4– 1/3 in. long Calyx 1/6 in. long; tube campanulate, very hairy; teeth deltoid, longer than the tube, the two lateral ones smaller than the others. Corolla-tube twice as long as the calyx; lower lip deeply cymbiform, bright lilac, 1/4 in. long. Stamens included in the lower lip.
Distribution
Eritrea Nile Land Chagali, 3200 ft., Schweinfurth & Riva, 1070! Acrur, 6000 ft., Schweinfurth & Riva, 1230! cultivated specimen, Penzig!
Notes
Described from a plant that flowered at KeW in November 1893.
