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Coleus rupestris

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Name

Identification
Plectranthus rupestris Vatke ex Baker [family LABIATAE ] (stored under name); Coleus rupestris Hochst. [family LABIATAE ]
Related name
  • Coleus rupestris
  • Plectranthus rupestris
  • Coleus schweinfurthii

Flora

Entry for Plectranthus rupestris Baker [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
Plectranthus rupestris Baker [family LABIATAE]
Coleus rupestris Hochst. [family LABIATAE], in Schimp. Pl. Abyss. No. 2172.
Information
Stems with a shrubby base, densely hairy. Leaves distinctly petioled, cordate-ovate, membranous, deeply crenate, densely pubescent, 1 1/2–2 in. long. Inflorescence racemose, lax, terminal, 3–5 in. long; whorls many-flowered; rhachis and pedicels densely pubescent, the latter longer than the calyx; bracts minute, deciduous. Calyx 1/8– 1/6 in. long, pubescent; tube campanulate; upper tooth ovate, as long as the tube; lateral and lower large, lanceolate. Corolla twice as long as the calyx.
Distribution
Abyssinia Nile Land near Bellaka, 5000–7000 ft., Schimper, 2172!Somaliland Nile Land Ahl Mountains, near Maid, 3500 ft., Hildebrandt, 1430! and cultivated specimen!
Notes
Near P. madagascariensis, Benth.

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