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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 Mozambique: 28 taxa. The larvae of the following species of insect eat species of this genus:
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Species | FZ divisions | Content |
alboviolaceus Gürke | Z | |
amboinicus (Lour.) Spreng. | N,M | |
autranii (Briq.) Erhardt, Götz & Seybold | MS | Description, Image |
baumii Gürke | N | Description, Image |
bojeri (Benth.) Hedge | MS | Description, Image |
calycinus Benth. | M | |
chimanimanensis S. Moore[NrEnd] | MS | Description, Image |
densus A.J. Paton | N | |
djalonensis (A. Chev.) A.J Paton | MS | Description, Image |
esculentus N.E. Br. | N,Z,T,MS | Description, Image |
fruticosus L'Hér. | M | |
gracillimus (T.C.E. Fr.) Hutch. & Dandy | N,MS | Description, Image |
guruensis A.J. Paton [End] | Z | |
hadiensis (Forssk.) Spreng. | N,MS | Description, Image |
kapatensis (R.E. Fr.) J.K. Morton | Z,MS | Description, Image |
lasianthus (Gürke) Vollesen | N,T,MS,GI,M | Description, Image |
leptophyllus (Baker) A.J. Paton | MS | |
madagascariensis (Pers.) Benth. | GI | |
mandalensis Baker[NrEnd] | Z | |
melleri Baker | Z | |
montanus Benth. | MS | |
neochilus Schltr. | T,MS | Description, Image |
shirensis (Gürke) A.J. Paton | Z,MS | Description, Image |
spicatus Benth. | M | |
swynnertonii S. Moore | MS | Description, Image |
tetragonus Gürke | N | |
thyrsoideus (Baker) B. Mathew | MS | Description, Image |
verticillatus (L.f.) Druce | M |
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