Coleus amboinicus Lour.

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.13629718

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/CB47FB9E-705D-5E90-90AE-52EED6198403

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scientific name

Coleus amboinicus Lour.
status

 

Coleus amboinicus Lour. View in CoL , Fl. Cochinch.: 372. 1790.

Plectranthus amboinicus (Lour.) Spreng. View in CoL , Syst. Veg. 2: 690. 1825. Type: Rumphius plate in Herb. Amb. 5, t. 102 / 2. 1750 (lectotype designated by Cramer [1978]); Thailand, Pai District, Mae Hong Son, 25 May 1921. F. Kerr s. n. (epitype BM, designated by Suddee et al. [2004]).

= Coleus amboinicus var. violaceus Gürke View in CoL , Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 19: 210. 1894. Type: Tanzania, Moshi District, Dschallasee [Lake Chala], Jun 1893, G. Volkens 321 (syntype B destroyed; isosyntype BM, K [ K 000431981 ]), & Pangani River, Jul 1893, G. Volkens 487 (syntype B destroyed; isosyntype BM, K).

Description.

Paton et al. (2009: 320), Paton et al. (2013: 262), as Plectranthus amboinicus (Lour.) Spreng.

Distribution.

Kenya to South Africa, Arabian Peninsula, India.

Habitat and ecology.

Steppe, ca. 925 m elev.

Additional specimens.

DR. Congo, Lacs Edouard et Kivu, Kabare, bords du Lac Kivu, Sep 1914, J. Bequaert 5522 ( BR).

Note.

Apparently, a rare species in Central Africa, known from a single collection. Other collections previously reported to this species were errors.

BM

Bristol Museum

G

Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques de la Ville de Genève

B

Botanischer Garten und Botanisches Museum Berlin-Dahlem, Zentraleinrichtung der Freien Universitaet

K

Royal Botanic Gardens

BR

Embrapa Agrobiology Diazothrophic Microbial Culture Collection

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Lamiales

Family

Lamiaceae

Genus

Coleus

Loc

Coleus amboinicus Lour.

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

Coleus amboinicus var. violaceus Gürke

Gurke 1894: 210
1894
Loc

Plectranthus amboinicus (Lour.)

Spreng. 1825: 690
Suddee et al. [2004]
1825