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Plectranthus puberulentus

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Coleus gracilis Gürke [family LABIATAE]
Filed as Plectranthus puberulentus J. K. Morton [family LAMIACEAE]
Filed as Plectranthus puberulentus J. K. Morton [family LAMIACEAE]
Filed as Plectranthus puberulentus J. K. Morton [family LAMIACEAE]
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Name

Identification
Plectranthus puberulentus J.K.Morton [family LABIATAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Data not digitized, 1893 Coleus gracilis Gürke [family LABIATAE ] Verified by Data not digitized,
Related name
  • Plectranthus puberulentus
  • Coleus gracilis

Flora

Entry for PLECTRANTHUS puberulentus J.K. Morton [family LABIATAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, (2000) Author: by O. Ryding (Aeollanthus, Basilicum, Clinopodium, Endostemon, Fuerstia, Hoslundia, Lavandula, Leucas, Micromeria, Nepeta, Ocimum, Orthosiphon, Otostegia, Plectranthus, Renschia, Salvia, Scutellaria, Stachys, Teucrium, Tinnea) and M. Thulin (Clerodendrum, Premna, Rotheca, Vitex) [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
PLECTRANTHUS puberulentus J.K. Morton [family LABIATAE], (1998);
Coleus gracilis Gürke [family LABIATAE], (1906), non P. gracilis Suesseng. (1951). Fig. 242B. [type as above]
Information
Shrublet, 1–2 m tall, erect or often ± decumbent, often leafless at flowering time. Leaves petiolate; blade broadly ovate, suborbicular or broadly elliptic, 11–25 × 10–20 mm, densely hoary with greyish hairs, apex obtuse or subacute, base cuneate, margin crenate. Inflorescence lax; bracts small, mostly early deciduous; cymes (3–)4–7-flowered, subsessile or very shortly pedunculate; pedicels spreading, 6–13 mm long in the fruiting stage, pubescent with short eglandular hairs and often a few glands. Fruiting calyx ± upcurved, 5–8 mm long, ± pubescent in the mouth of the tube; upper lobe broadly ovate, concave, decurrent; lower lobes c. 3.5 mm long, longer than the lateral lobes. Corolla 12–18 mm long; lower lip 5–9 mm long, much longer than the upper lip. Stamens ± connate. Nutlets 1–1.2 × 0.9–1.2 mm.
Range
N1
Altitude range
1200–1600 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Wood S/72/134; Bally 10229.
Distribution (external)
Ethiopia
East Africa

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