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COLEUS Lour.
ENGLERASTRUM Briq.
HOLOSTYLON Robyns & J.-P. Lebrun
NEOHYPTIS J.K. Morton
SOLENOSTEMON Thonn.
Annual or perennial herbs or subshrubs. Stems herbaceous or woody below, sometimes succulent. Inflorescence paniculate, racemose or subspicate, usually terminal. Flowers in whorls, few-flowered cymes or dichasia, occasionally solitary. Bracts small, clearly differentiated from the leaves. Calyx 2-lipped (the upper lip consisting of a large single tooth, the lower lip of 4 lanceolate-triangular or subulate teeth) or subequally 5-toothed. Corolla 2-lipped, tube usually bent and expanded near the base; upper lip usually 4-lobed, shorter than the boat-shaped lower lip. Stamens 4; filaments free or united at base. Stigma shortly 2-lobed. Nutlets smooth. Worldwide: c. 300 species from tropical and warm parts of the Old World Zimbabwe: 31 taxa. Insects associated with this genus:
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Species | FZ divisions | Content |
amboinicus (Lour.) Spreng. | E | |
baumii Gürke | N,C | Description, Image |
bojeri (Benth.) Hedge | N,W,C,E | Description, Image |
buchananii Baker | N,C | |
caninus Roth var. flavovirens (Gürke) A.J.Paton | W,C,E | |
chimanimanensis S. Moore[NrEnd] | E | Description, Image |
comosus Sims | C | Description, Image |
djalonensis (A. Chev.) A.J Paton | N,W,C,E | Description, Image |
dolichopodus Briq. | E | |
dupuisii (Briq.) A.J. Paton | E | |
efoliatus (De Wild.) A.J. Paton | N,W,C | Description, Image |
esculentus N.E. Br. | N,W,C,E | Description, Image |
gracillimus (T.C.E. Fr.) Hutch. & Dandy | N,C | Description, Image |
grandidentatus Gürke | S | |
guerkei Briq. | N,C,E | Description, Image |
hadiensis (Forssk.) Spreng. | N,W,C,E,S | Description, Image |
hereroensis Engl. | N,W,C,E,S | Description, Image |
kapatensis (R.E. Fr.) J.K. Morton | N,C,E | Description, Image |
lanuginosus (Hochst.) Agnew | E | Description, Image |
lasianthus (Gürke) Vollesen | N,W,C,E,S | Description, Image |
leptophyllus (Baker) A.J. Paton | E | |
montanus Benth. | N,W,C,E | |
neochilus Schltr. | N,W,C,E,S | Description, Image |
pentheri (Gürke) van Jaarsv. & T.J. Edwards | W | |
porphyranthus T.J. Edwards & N. Crouch[End][LR-lc] | W,S | Description, Image |
rotundifolius (Poir.) Spreng. | E | |
shirensis (Gürke) A.J. Paton | N,E | Description, Image |
swynnertonii S. Moore | E | Description, Image |
termiticola A.J. Paton | N,W | |
tetragonus Gürke | N,W,C,S | |
thyrsoideus (Baker) B. Mathew | E | Description, Image |
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