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Coleus dissitiflorus Gürke [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 dissitiflorus Gürke [family LABIATAE], in Engl. Jahrb. xix. 217.
Information
A perennial herb, with slender stems 3–4 ft. long and glandular-pubescent branches. Leaves long-petioled, ovate-rhomboid, membranous, 2–2 1/2 in. long, cuneate at the base, crenate, glabrous above, pubescent and gland-dotted beneath. Inflorescence racemose, simple, terminal, very lax; cymes compound, 5–7-flowered; pedicels long, glandular-pubescent; bracts ovate, persistent, foliaceous. Calyx in flower 1/5 in., in fruit above 1/3 in. long, pubescent, naked inside at the throat; upper tooth broadly ovate, acute, its edges slightly decurrent; lateral teeth shorter, lanceolate, acuminate; lower long, linear. Corolla violet, with a slender tube longer than the calyx.
Distribution
Cameroons Upper Guinea between Buea and Mimbia, 3000 ft., Preuss, 1055!

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 dissitiflorus Gürke [family LABIATAE], in Engl. Jahrb. xix. 217.
Information
A perennial herb, with slender stems 3–4 ft. long and glandular-pubescent branches. Leaves long-petioled, ovate-rhomboid, membranous, 2–2 1/2 in. long, cuneate at the base, crenate, glabrous above, pubescent and gland-dotted beneath. Inflorescence racemose, simple, terminal, very lax; cymes compound, 5–7-flowered; pedicels long, glandular-pubescent; bracts ovate, persistent, foliaceous. Calyx in flower 1/5 in., in fruit above 1/3 in. long, pubescent, naked inside at the throat; upper tooth broadly ovate, acute, its edges slightly decurrent; lateral teeth shorter, lanceolate, acuminate; lower long, linear. Corolla violet, with a slender tube longer than the calyx.
Distribution
Cameroons Upper Guinea between Buea and Mimbia, 3000 ft., Preuss, 1055!

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 dissitiflorus Gürke [family LABIATAE], in Engl. Jahrb. xix. 217.
Information
A perennial herb, with slender stems 3–4 ft. long and glandular-pubescent branches. Leaves long-petioled, ovate-rhomboid, membranous, 2–2 1/2 in. long, cuneate at the base, crenate, glabrous above, pubescent and gland-dotted beneath. Inflorescence racemose, simple, terminal, very lax; cymes compound, 5–7-flowered; pedicels long, glandular-pubescent; bracts ovate, persistent, foliaceous. Calyx in flower 1/5 in., in fruit above 1/3 in. long, pubescent, naked inside at the throat; upper tooth broadly ovate, acute, its edges slightly decurrent; lateral teeth shorter, lanceolate, acuminate; lower long, linear. Corolla violet, with a slender tube longer than the calyx.
Distribution
Cameroons Upper Guinea between Buea and Mimbia, 3000 ft., Preuss, 1055!
Coleus dissitiflorus Gürke [family LABIATAE]
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