Plectranthus esculentus N.E.Br.

POWO follows these authorities in synonymising this name:

• Sosef, M.S.M. & al. (eds.) (2022). Flore du Gabon 58: 1-150. Muséum National D'Histoire Naturelle, Paris. [Cited as Coleus esculentus.]

This name was accepted following an alternative taxonomy by these authorities:

• Brundu, G. & Camarda, I. (2013). The Flora of Chad: a checklist and brief analysis. PhytoKeys 23: 1-18. [Cited as Plectranthus esculentus.]
• Calane da Silva, M., Izdine, S. & Amuse, A.B. (2004). A Preliminary Checklist of the Vascular Plants of Mozambique: 1-184. SABONET, Pretoria. [Cited as Plectranthus esculentus.]
• Figueiredo, E. & Smith, G.F. (2008). Plants of Angola. Strelitzia 22: 1-279. National Botanical Institute, Pretoria. [Cited as Plectranthus esculentus.]
• Govaerts, R. (2003). World Checklist of Selected Plant Families Database in ACCESS: 1-216203. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. [Cited as Plectranthus esculentus.]
• Lebrun, J.P., Toutain, B., Gaston, A. & Boudet, G. (1991). Catalogue des Plantes Vasculaires du Burkina Faso: 1-341. Institut d' Elevage et de Médecine Vétérinaire des Pays Tropicaux, Maisons Alfort. [Cited as Plectranthus esculentus.]
• Paton, A.J., Bramley, G., Ryding, O., Polhill, R., Harvey, Y., Iwarsson, M., Willis, F., Phillipson, P., Balkwill, K., Lukhoba, C., Otiend, D & Harley (2009). Lamiaceae (Labiatae). Flora of Tropical East Africa: 1-430. [Cited as Plectranthus esculentus.]
• Paton, A.J., Bramley, G., Ryding, O., Polhill, R.M., Harvey, Y.B., Iwarsson, M., Otieno, D., Balkwill, K., Phillipson, P.B., Harley, R.M. & Willis, F. (2013). Flora Zambesiaca 8(8): 1-346. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. [Cited as Plectranthus esculentus.]
• Strugnell, A.M. (2006). A checklist of the Spermatophytes of Mt. Mulanje, Malawi. Scripta Botanica Belgica 34: 1-199. [Cited as Plectranthus esculentus.]
• Timberlake, J.R., Bayliss, J., Alves, T., Francisco, J., Harris, T., Nangoma, D. & de Sousa, C. (2009). Biodiversity and Conservation of Mchese Mountain, Malawi. Report produced under the Darwin Initiative Award 15/036: 1-71. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. [Cited as Plectranthus esculentus.]
• van Jaarsveld, E. (2006). The Southern African Plectranthus and the art of turning shade to glade: 1-176. Ferwood Press, Simon's Town, South Africa. [Cited as Plectranthus esculentus.]

Kew Species Profiles

• Allemann, J. & Hammes, P. S. (2006). Effect of photoperiod on tuberization in the Livingstone potato ( Plectranthus esculentus N.E.Br. Lamiaceae). Field Crop. Res. 98: 76-81.
• Allemann, J., Robbertse, P. & Hammes, P. (2003). Organographic and anatomical evidence that the edible storage organs of Plectranthus esculentus N. E. Br. (Lamiaceae) are stem tubers [online] Field Crop. Res. Volume 83: Issue 1 pp. 35-39.
• Burkill, H.M. (1985). The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol 3. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, London.
• Kyesmu, P.M. (1994). Plectranthus esculentus N.E.Br. A minor tuber crop in dire need of rescue from extinction. Lamiales Newsl. 4: 3-4.
• Lukhoba, C.W., Simmonds, M.S.J. & Paton, A.J. (2006). Plectranthus: A review of ethnobotanical uses. J. Ethnopharmacology. 103: 1-24.
• Van Wyk, B. (2005). Food Plants of the World. Timber Press, Oregon.
  
  

Flora of West Tropical Africa

• in Kew Bull. 1894: 12.

Flora of Tropical East Africa

• Bothalia 11: 377 (1975)
• F.S.A. 28 (4): 142 (1985).
• F.W.T.A., ed. 2, 2: 460 (1963)
• Hook., Ic. Pl. 25, t. 2488 (1896)
• K.B. 1894: 12 (1894)