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COLEUS comosus Hochst. ex A. Rich. [family LABIATAE]

Date Updated: 19 August 2007

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 comosus Hochst. ex A. Rich. [family LABIATAE], Tent. FL Abyss. ii. 183. —Gürke in Engl. Jahrb. xix. 212; COLEUS spicatus Benth. [family LABIATAE], in DC. Prod. xii. 71, ex parte. COLEUS caninus Vatke [family LABIATAE], in Linnæa, xxxvii. 318 (excl. syn. Roth); Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 359.
Information
An undershrub, with a woody main stem and short densely pubescent branches. Leaves sessile, obovate-cuneate, thick, fleshy, pubescent, crenate in the upper half; whorls aggregated into a short dense terminal spicate panicle; bracts small, orbicular, foliaceous; pedicels obsolete. Calyx hispid, 1/6 in. long; tube campanulate; upper tooth small, ovate; lower lanceolate. Corolla nearly 1 in. long; tube very short; lower lip very large, deeply concave.
Distribution
Eritrea Nile Land Chagali, 3200 ft., Schweinfurth & Riva, 1071! near Acrur, 6000 ft., Schweinfurth & Riva, 1339! Near Aidereso, 4000 ft., Schweinfurth & Riva, 2202!Abyssinia Nile Land Tigre; Mount Semayata, 8000 ft., Schimper, 622. Mount Erareta, 11,300 ft., Schimper; Mount Aber, near Jenansa, Schimper, 1328, in the province of Shire, Quartin-Dillon; near Wadela Village in south-east Abyssinia, Steudner, 1422, and without precise locality, Schimper, 63!
COLEUS comosus Hochst. ex A. Rich. [family LABIATAE]
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