Lamiaceae
Orthosiphon

Orthosiphon americanus Harley & A.J.Paton

First published in Kew Bull. 67: 46 (2012)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is Colombia. It is a subshrub or shrub and grows primarily in the wet tropical biome.

Distribution

Native to:

Colombia

Classification

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Publications

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

  • Govaerts, R., Nic Lughadha, E., Black, N., Turner, R. & Paton, A. (2021). The World Checklist of Vascular Plants, a continuously updated resource for exploring global plant diversity. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-021-00997-6. Scientific Data 8: 215.

Kew Bulletin

  • Bentham, G. (1848). Labiatae. In: A. De Candolle (ed.), ProdromusSystematis Naturalis RegniVegetabilis 12: 27 – 603. Victor Masson, Paris.
  • Bräuchler, C., Meimberg, H. & Heubl, G. (2010). Molecular phylogeny of Menthinae (Lamiaceae, Nepetoideae, Mentheae) — taxonomy, biogeography and conflicts. Molec. Phylogenet. Evol. 55: 501 – 523.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
  • Cantino, P. D. & Doroszenko, A. (1998). Obtegomeria (Lamiaceae) a new genus from South America. Novon 8: 1 – 3.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
  • Cleef, A. M., Rangel Ch., O., van der Hammen, T. & Jaramillo, M. R. (1984). La Vegetación de las Selvas del TransectoBuritaca. In: T. Van der Hammen & P. Ruiz (eds), La Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta (Colombia): transectoBuritaca — La Cumbre, vol. 2: 267 – 406. J. Cramer, Berlín.
  • Fernández-Alonso, J. L. (1995). EstudiosenLabiatae de Colombia I. Novedadesenlosgéneros Salvia e Hyptis. Revista Acad. Colomb. Ci. Exact. 19 (74): 469 – 479.
  • Harley, R. M., Atkins, S., Budantsev, A., Cantino, P. D., Conn, B., Grayer, R. J., Harley, M. M., De Kok, R., Krestovskaja, T., Morales, A., Paton, A. J., Ryding, O. & Upson., T. (2004). Labiatae. In: J. W. Kadereit (ed.), The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants, vi (Lamiales), pp. 167 – 275, Springer, Berlin.
  • Hedge, I. C., Clement, R. A. & Paton, A. J. (1998). Flore de Madagascar et des Comores, Famille 175 – Labiatae. Museum National d'HistoireNaturelle, Paris.
  • IUCN (2001). IUCN Red List Categories and Criteria, Version 3.1. Prepared by the IUCN Species Survival Commission. IUCN, Gland and Cambridge.
  • Otieno, D. F., Balkwill, K., Paton, A. J. & Savolainen, V. (2006). A reassessment of Hemizygia and Syncolostemon (Lamiaceae, Ocimeae). Taxon 55: 941 – 958.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
  • Paton, A., Bramley, G., Ryding, O., Polhill, R. M., Harvey, Y. B., Iwarsson, M., Willis, F, Phillipson, P. B., Balkwill, K., Lukhoba, C. W., Oteino, D. & Harley, R. M. (2009). In: H. J. Beentje, S. A. Ghazanfar & R. M. Polhill (eds), Flora of Tropical East Africa. Lamiaceae (Labiatae). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  • Paton, A., Harley, R. M. & Harley M. M. (1999). Ocimum - an overview of relationships and classification. In: Y. Holm & R. Hiltunen (eds), Ocimum. Medicinal and Aromatic plants — industrial profiles. 1 – 38. Series Ed. Hardman, Harwood Academic, Amsterdam.
  • Paton, A., Springate, D., Suddee, S., Otieno, D., Grayer, R. J., Harley, M. M., Willis, F., Simmonds, M. S. J., Powell, M. P. & Savolainen, V. (2004). Phylogeny and evolution of basils and allies (Ocimeae, Labiatae) based on three plastid DNA regions. Molec. Phylogenet. Evol. 31: 277 – 299.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
  • Rangel-Ch., J. O. & Garzón-C., A. (1997). Site SA 25. Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia. In: S. D. Davis, V. H. Heywood, O. Herrera-MacBryde, J. Villa-Lobos & A. C. Hamilton (eds), Centres of Plant Diversity, 3. The Americas, pp. 426 – 430. Union International pour la Conservation de la Nature et de sesResouces.
  • Ryding, O., Paton, A., Thulin, M. & Springate, D. (2003). Reconsideration of the genus Puntia and a new species of the genus Endostemon (Lamiaceae). Kew Bull. 58: 919 – 927.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
  • Suddee, S., Paton, A. J. & Parnell, J. A. N. (2005). A taxonomic revision of tribe OcimeaeDumort. (Lamiaceae) in continental South East Asia. III. Ociminae. Kew Bull. 60: 3 – 75.
  • Wood, J. R. I. & Harley, R. M. (1989). The genus Salvia (Labiatae) Colombia. Kew Bull. 44: 211 – 278.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
  • van der Hammen, T. (1984). La Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta (Colombia). In: T. Van der Hammen & P. Ruiz (eds), Studies on Tropical Andean Ecosystems 2, pp. 11 – 29, J. Cramer, Berlin.

Catálogo de Plantas y Líquenes de Colombia

  • Bernal, R., Gradstein, S.R. & Celis, M. (eds.). 2015. Catálogo de plantas y líquenes de Colombia. Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá. http://catalogoplantasdecolombia.unal.edu.co

Useful Plants and Fungi of Colombia

  • Bernal, R., Gradstein, S.R., & Celis, M. (eds.). (2020). Catálogo de Plantas y Líquenes de Colombia. v1.1. Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Dataset/Checklist. https://doi.org/10.15472/7avdhn
  • Diazgranados et al. (2021). Catalogue of plants of Colombia. Useful Plants and Fungi of Colombia project. In prep.
  • Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt (2019). Lista de especies vedadas por la resolución 213 de 1977. 8256 especies. http://i2d.humboldt.org.co/ceiba/resource.do?r=le_plantaspriorizadas_2019

Other Data

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

Sources

  • Angiosperm Extinction Risk Predictions v1

    • Angiosperm Threat Predictions
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

  • Catálogo de Plantas y Líquenes de Colombia

    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2025. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Bulletin

    • Kew Bulletin
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2025. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Useful Plants and Fungi of Colombia

    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0