Plectranthrus cylindraceusHochst. ex Benth. [family LAMIACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Ryding,O., Plectranthus marrubioidesHochst. ex Benth. [family LAMIACEAE ]
Related name
Plectranthus amboinicus
Plectranthus cylindriceus
Plectranthus cylindraceus
Plectranthus montanus
Plectranthrus cylindraceus
Plectranthus marrubioides
Coleus amboinicus
Plectranthus pseudomarrubioides
Flora
Entry for Plectranthus marrubioides Hochst. [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 marrubioidesHochst. [family LABIATAE], Benth. in DC. Prod. xii. 60. —A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 181; Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 127; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 358.
Information
A shrubby perennial, with finely pubescent stems. Leaves small, subsessile, pubescent, oblong, crenate, with an entire cuneate base. Branches of the panicle laxer than in P. cylindraceus, the end one 5–6 in. long, one or few to a stem; flowers in dense globose whorls; pedicels very short; bracts small, ovate, pubescent. Flower-calyx 1/12 in. long, densely clothed with short white hairs; tube campanulate; teeth subequal, short, deltoid. Corolla hairy, twice as long as the calyx.
Distribution
Abyssinia Nile Land Samen; near Jaja (Dschadscha), 6000 ft., Schimper, 387, and without precise locality, Schimper, 146! 1925!
