Coleus lyratus (A.Chev.) Roberty, Bull. Inst. Fondam. Afrique Noire, Ser . A, Sci. Nat. 16: 330. 1954

Paton, Alan J., Mwanyambo, Montfort, Govaerts, Rafael H. A., Smitha, Kokkaraniyil, Suddee, Somran, Phillipson, Peter B., Wilson, Trevor C., Forster, Paul I. & Culham, Alastair, 2019, Nomenclatural changes in Coleus and Plectranthus (Lamiaceae): a tale of more than two genera, PhytoKeys 129, pp. 1-158 : 59

Coleus lyratus (A.Chev.) Roberty, Bull. Inst. Fondam. Afrique Noire, Ser. A, Sci. Nat. 16: 330. 1954

Leocus lyratus A.Chev., J. Bot. (Morot) 22: 126. 1909. Type: Guinea, Fouta-Djalon, Mt Tinka, near Dalaba, Chevalier s.n. (holotype: P).

Distribution.

Sierra Leone, Guinea.

Notes.

Paton et al. (2013) considered this as a synonym of P. betonicifolius , but the west African C. lyratus is a larger plant with retrorse, rather than antrorse stem hairs.