Coleus lactiflorus Vatke

Meerts, Pierre J. & Paton, Alan J., 2024, The genus Coleus (Lamiaceae) in Central Africa (Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Burundi), with the description of 15 new species, PhytoKeys 246, pp. 71-178 : 71-178

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.3897/phytokeys.246.129476

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13629825

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/01E0AE81-8D61-5EF5-912D-78C9A1803668

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scientific name

Coleus lactiflorus Vatke
status

 

Coleus lactiflorus Vatke View in CoL , Linnaea 43: 89. 1881.

Plectranthus lactiflorus (Vatke) Agnew View in CoL , Upland Kenya Wild Fl.: 637. 1974. Type: Kenya, Taita District, Mbololo Forest, May 1985, H. J. Beentje et al. 1042 (neotype K [ K 000975978 ]; isoneotype EA, designated by Paton et al. [2009]).

Description.

Paton et al. (2009: 351), as Plectranthus lactiflorus (Vatke) Agnew.

Distribution.

Ethiopia to N. and NW Tanzania, E DR. Congo.

Habitat and ecology.

Savannah fallow fields; 1400–1600 m elev.

Additional specimens.

DR. Congo, Lac Albert, Ituri, SE of Ngolu, N of Nioka, 18 Dec 1951, T. Sperry 335 ( BR).

Rwanda, Territ. Kibungu, Rwinkwavu, 13 Apr 1966, J. Lewalle 685 ( BR).

Note.

1. New to DR. Congo. Rare in Central Africa, known from only two collections.

H

University of Helsinki

K

Royal Botanic Gardens

EA

National Museums of Kenya - East African Herbarium

E

Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh

T

Tavera, Department of Geology and Geophysics

BR

Embrapa Agrobiology Diazothrophic Microbial Culture Collection

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Lamiales

Family

Lamiaceae

Genus

Coleus

Loc

Coleus lactiflorus Vatke

Meerts, Pierre J. & Paton, Alan J. 2024
2024
Loc

Plectranthus lactiflorus (Vatke)

Plectranthus lactiflorus (Vatke) Agnew , Upland Kenya Wild Fl.: 637. 1974. Type: Kenya , Taita District, Mbololo Forest, May 1985, H . J. Beentje et al. 1042 (neotype K [ K 000975978 ]; isoneotype EA , designated by Paton et al. [2009]