Coleus parvifolius (Baker) Meerts & A. J. Paton, 2024

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.13629868

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/1F9F991E-D024-5983-82A1-D6003135DD34

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scientific name

Coleus parvifolius (Baker) Meerts & A. J. Paton
status

comb. nov.

Coleus parvifolius (Baker) Meerts & A. J. Paton comb. nov.

Pycnostachys parvifolia Baker View in CoL , Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew 1895: 72. 1895. Type: Zambia, Northern Province, Fwambo, 1894, A. Carson 103 (lectotype K [ K 000405989 ], designated by Bruce [1940]). (Basionym)

= Coleus capitatus A. J. Paton View in CoL , Phytokeys 129: 33. 2019 View Cited Treatment , nom. illeg., syn. nov.

Description.

Paton et al. (2009: 388), Paton et al. (2013: 317), as Pycnostachys parvifolia Baker.

Distribution.

W and S Tanzania to Zambia and SE DR. Congo.

Habitat and ecology.

Steppic savannah on highlands, on moist soil (1200 –) 1700–2000 m elev.

Additional specimens.

DR. Congo, Haut-Katanga, Kundelungu, 1968, T. Coget 116 ( BR); 50 km NE Lubumbashi, bord de la Luiswishi, 11 Apr 1969, S. Lisowski 23447 ( POZG); Lwamisamba, 28 Mar 1975, F. Malaisse 8641 ( BR); Marungu, Kipiri, Nov 1945, P. Quarré 7337 ( BR).

Note.

1. C. parvifolius and C. descampsii are closely related and intermediates occur.

2. The new name C. capitatus A. J. Paton was superfluous because the binomial Coleus parvifolius has never been published before.

K

Royal Botanic Gardens

W

Naturhistorisches Museum Wien

T

Tavera, Department of Geology and Geophysics

BR

Embrapa Agrobiology Diazothrophic Microbial Culture Collection

NE

University of New England

POZG

Adam Mickiewicz University

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Lamiales

Family

Lamiaceae

Genus

Coleus

Loc

Coleus parvifolius (Baker) Meerts & A. J. Paton

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

Coleus capitatus

A. J. Paton 2019: 33
2019
Loc

Pycnostachys parvifolia

Baker 1895: 72
1895