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Coleus forskohlii

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Name

Identification
Plectranthus barbatus Andrews [family LABIATAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Ryding, O., Coleus barbatus (Andrews) Benth. [family LABIATAE ] Ocimum unrecorded unrecorded [family LABIATAE ] Coleus forskohlii Briq. [family LABIATAE ]
Related name
  • coleus forskohlii
  • coleus barbatus
  • plectranthus barbatus
  • Ocimum unrecorded
  • Plectranthus barbatus
  • Coleus forskohlii
  • Coleus barbatus

Flora

Entry for Coleus barbatus Benth. [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 barbatus Benth. [family LABIATAE], in DC. Prod. xii. 71. —A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 183; Wight, Ic. t. 1432; Oliv. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxix. 137; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. 625; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 359; N. E. Br. in Kew Bulletin, 1894, 10.
Coleus Forskohlii Briquet var. adoensis [family LABIATAE], in Ann. Jard. Genèv. ii. (1898) 235.
Plectranthus barbatus Andr. [family LABIATAE], Bot. Rep. t. 594.
Ocimum cinereum R. Br. [family LABIATAE], in Salt, Abyss., App. 64.
Information
An erect perennial 2–4 ft. high, with woody main stems and pubescent branches. Leaves petioled, ovate or oblong, obtuse, crenate, cuneate at the base, 1–4 in. long, very pubescent on both sides. Panicle racemose, lax, simple, 1/2–1 ft. long; whorls many-flowered; pedicels hairy, pubescent, reaching 1/4 in. long; bracts ovate-cuspidate, pubescent, deciduous. Fruit-calyx 1/6 in. long, pubescent, campanulate; upper tooth suborbicular, mucronate, as long as the tube; 4 lower small cusps. Corolla bright blue, 1/2 in. long; lower lip as long as the tube.
Range
Also in Tropical Asia.
Distribution
German East Africa Mozamb. Dist. Unyamwezi; Mininga, Speke & Grant, 73!Nubia Nile Land Erkowit Mountain, near Suakin, Schweinfurth, 229!Eritrea Nile Land Ginda, 3000 ft., Schweinfurth, 390! Bogos; Atirba, near Keren, Steudner, 1392! Lalasse Mountain, near Keren, Steudner, 1400.Abyssinia Nile Land Tigre; near Adowa, Schimper, 333! Mount Sholoda, 7000 ft., Schimper, 284; province of Wojerat, Petit! and without precise locality, Schimper, 502! Plowden!Uganda Nile Land in cultivated ground, Wilson, 124!

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