- Family:
- Lamiaceae Martinov
- Genus:
- Coleus Lour.
Coleus barbatus (Andrews) Benth. ex G.Don

[FTEA]
Lamiaceae (Labiatae), A.J. Paton, G. Bramley, O. Ryding, R.M. Polhill, Y.B. Harvey, M. Iwarsson, F. Willis, P.B. Phillipson, K. Balkwill, C.W. Lukhoba, D.F. Otieno, & R.M. Harley. Flora of Tropical East Africa. 2009
- Type
- Type: illustration of cultivated material in Bot. Rep. 9, t. 594 (1809) holo.; Eritrea, Dekemehare, Colville 47 (K!, epitype, C, photo. of epitype)
- Morphology General Habit
- Aromatic perennial succulent shrub, (0.2–)1–3(–4.5) m tall
- Morphology Stem
- Stems erect or ascending, sometimes creeping at base, rounded-quadrangular, branching, softly wooded and brittle, pubescent to villose with short or long antrorse or rarely retrorse eglandular hairs and patent glandular or eglandular hairs and with red sessile glands, with indumentum of inflorescence axis abruptly becoming glandular, viscid and less dense and with short or long glandular patent hairs and red and yellowish sessile glands
- Morphology Leaves
- Leaves spreading, fleshy, petiolate; blades elliptic to ovate, 0.9–20 × 0.5–11 cm, serrate or crenate, obtuse to rounded, base cuneate, broadly cuneate, truncate or subcordate, attenuate at petiole, pubescent to lanate, with red sessile glands; petiole 3–50 mm long
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
- Inflorescence lax with 10(–14)-flowered verticils 5–25 mm apart in fruit; cymes sessile, 5(–7)-flowered, dichasial at first branch producing two lateral condensed cincinni; bracts ovate, apiculate, 5–20 mm long, erect above forming a conspicuous terminal coma, cucullate, enclosing buds, soon deciduous; pedicels 3–7 mm long, ascending, shortly flattened, distally curved
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx
- Calyx 3–5 mm, sparsely pubescent to villose, with red and yellowish sessile glands, often purplish; fruiting calyx 6–10 mm long, shortly tubular and with pedicel attached excentrically behind posterior lip; throat truncate, densely villose; posterior lip elliptic, apiculate at apex, curving upwards, decurrent; anterior lip 4-lobed, lobes lanceolate, median longer than lateral
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
- Corolla blue or purple, (7–)8–26 mm long, with scattered red glands or hairs on lobes; tube 5–12 mm long, sigmoid; posterior lip much shorter than anterior; anterior lip 8–15 mm long, finally horizontal, deeply cucullate enclosing stamens
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Androecium Stamens
- Staminal filaments fused
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
- Nutlets pale brown to black, smooth, with dark gland dots, broadly ovoid, slightly flattened, 1.5–2 mm long, producing copious speckled mucilage when wet.
Native to:
Burundi, China South-Central, East Himalaya, Eritrea, Ethiopia, India, Kenya, Nepal, Oman, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Tanzania, Thailand, Uganda, West Himalaya, Yemen, Zaïre
Introduced into:
Botswana, Cape Provinces, Malawi, St.Helena, Zambia, Zimbabwe
- English
- Woolly Plectranthus
Coleus barbatus (Andrews) Benth. ex G.Don appears in other Kew resources:
Date | Reference | Identified As | Barcode | Type Status | Has image? |
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Wallich, N. [Cat. no. 2728], Nepal | K000639591 | Yes | |||
s.coll. [Cat. no. 2728], India | K001116963 | Yes | |||
s.coll. [Cat. no. 2728] | K001116962 | Yes | |||
Blinkworth, R. [Cat. no. 2728], India | K001116961 | Yes | |||
May 24, 2013 | Bisset [192], Yemen | Plectranthus barbatus | K000735957 | No | |
May 24, 2013 | Bisset [137], Yemen | Plectranthus barbatus | K000735958 | No | |
May 17, 2013 | Katende [1927], Uganda | Plectranthus barbatus | K000938046 | No | |
May 17, 2013 | Tiyoy [1325], Uganda | Plectranthus barbatus | K000938047 | No | |
Jan 1, 1998 | Schimper [333], Ethiopia | Plectranthus barbatus | K000431891 | Yes | |
Plectranthus barbatus | 52769.000 | No | |||
Mathew, B. [6133], Kenya | Plectranthus barbatus | 6049.218 | No | ||
Mathew, B. [6171], Kenya | Plectranthus barbatus | 6049.223 | No | ||
Burger, W. [2246], Ethiopia | Plectranthus barbatus | K000431889 | Yes | ||
Cole, E. [s.n.], Somalia | Plectranthus barbatus | K000431893 | Unknown type material | Yes | |
Burger, W. [2246], Ethiopia | Plectranthus barbatus | K000431888 | Yes | ||
Volkens, G. [427], Tanzania | Plectranthus barbatus | K000975992 | neotype | Yes | |
Russell, W. [s.n.], India | Plectranthus barbatus | K000820188 | Yes | ||
Lort Phillips [s.n.], Somalia | Plectranthus barbatus | K000431892 | Unknown type material | Yes | |
Wight [s.n.], India | Plectranthus barbatus | K000820187 | Yes | ||
Lort Phillips [s.n.], Somalia | Plectranthus barbatus | K000431894 | Unknown type material | Yes | |
Colville, J.W. [47], Ethiopia | Plectranthus barbatus | K000431890 | epitype | Yes |
First published in J.C.Loudon, Hort. Brit.: 483 (1830)
Accepted by
- Paton, A.J., Mwanyambo, M. Govaerts, R.H.A., Smitha, K., Suddee, S., Phillipson, P.B., Wilson, T.C., Forster, P.I. & Culham, A. (2019). Nomenclatural changes in Coleus and Plectranthus (Lamiaceae): A tale of more than two genera PhytoKeys 129: 1-158.
Not accepted by
- Darbyshire, I., Kordofani, M., Farag, I., Candiga, R. & Pickering, H. (eds.) (2015). The Plants of Sudan and South Sudan: 1-400. Kew publishing, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. [Cited as Plectranthus barbatus.]
- Govaerts, R. (1999). World Checklist of Seed Plants 3(1, 2a & 2b): 1-1532. MIM, Deurne. [Cited as Plectranthus barbatus.]
- 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 barbatus.]
Literature
Kew Backbone Distributions
- Lambdon, P. (2012). Flowering plants & ferns of St Helena: 1-624. Pisces publications for St Helena nature conservation group.
- Mosti, S., Raffaelli, M. & Tardelli, M. (2012). Contributions to the flora of central-southern Dhofar (Sultanate of Oman) Webbia; Raccolta de Scritti Botanici 67: 65-91.
- 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.
- 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.
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