Coleus Lour.

Description of the genus

Comment: The reinstated genus Coleus now includes many species formerly in Plectranthus.

Worldwide: 294 species in the Old World tropics and subtropics.

Caprivi: 4 taxa.

Coleus lasianthus

Links to taxa:     View: living plant images - herbarium specimen images - all images for this genus

SpeciesContent
lasianthus GürkeDescription, Image
mirabilis Briq.Description, Image
rhodesianum (N.E.Br.) A.J.PatonDescription, Image
tetragonus (Gürke) Robyns & Lebrun

Other sources of information about Coleus:

Our websites:

Flora of Botswana: Coleus
Flora of Burundi: Coleus
Flora of Malawi: Coleus
Flora of Mozambique: Coleus
Flora of Zambia: Coleus
Flora of Zimbabwe: Coleus
Flora of Zimbabwe: cultivated Coleus

External websites:

African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): Coleus
BHL (Biodiversity Heritage Library): Coleus
EOL (Encyclopedia of Life): Coleus
GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility): Coleus
Google: Web - Images - Scholar
iNaturalist: Coleus
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Coleus
JSTOR Plant Science: Coleus
Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Coleus
Plants of the World Online: Coleus
Tropicos: Coleus
Wikipedia: Coleus

Copyright: Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings and Meg Coates Palgrave, 2014-24

Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. & Coates Palgrave, M. (2024). Flora of Caprivi: Genus page: Coleus.
https://www.capriviflora.com/speciesdata/genus.php?genus_id=2577, retrieved 21 November 2024

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