Coleus lanuginosus Hochst. ex Benth.

Meerts, Pierre J. & Paton, Alan J., 2024, The genus Coleus (Lamiaceae) in Central Africa (Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Burundi), with the description of 15 new species, PhytoKeys 246, pp. 71-178 : 71-178

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.3897/phytokeys.246.129476
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13629829
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/12894A27-E149-5587-ABF3-F0C9B80114F0
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scientific name	Coleus lanuginosus Hochst. ex Benth.
status

Treatment

Coleus lanuginosus Hochst. ex Benth. View in CoL in A. P. de Candolle, Prodr. 12: 79. 1848.

≡ Plectranthus lanuginosus (Hochst. ex Benth.) Agnew View in CoL , Upland Kenya Wild Fl.: 638. 1974.

= Coleus sodalium Baker View in CoL , Fl. Trop. Afr. 5: 526. 1900. Type: Eritrea, Mogad (Magod) Valley, 8 Apr 1892. G. Schweinfurth & D. Riva 1810 (holotype K; isotype BR [ BR 0000006245825 ], FT, Z).

Type.

Ethiopia, in montibus et vallibus prope Aduam [Adua], 4 Oct 1842. G. W. Schimper III. 1915 (lectotype K [ K 000431915 ]; isolectotype B, BM, E, FT, G, KIEL, MPU, P, UPS, W, designated by Ryding [2000]).

Description.

Paton et al. (2009: 347), Paton et al. (2013: 278), as Plectranthus lanuginosus (Hochst. ex Benth.) Agnew.

Distribution.

Eritrea to N Tanzania, SW Arabian Peninsula. Naturalised in Zimbabwe.

Habitat and ecology.

Dry woodlands, steppe, shrub savannah; 1800–2500 m elev.

Additional specimens.

DR. Congo, Lacs Edouard et Kivu, Rutshuru, 19 Apr 1914, J. Bequaert 6051 ( BR); Nyamgaleka, versant droit de la Haute Lume, 14 Apr 1953, G. F. de Witte 8783 ( BR); Kikomero, Nov 1937, J. Lebrun 8447 ( BR); Entre les rivières Molindi et Rutshuru, 21 Feb 1958, M. Heine 220 ( BR).

Rwanda, Kidaho, Rukoro, 29 Mar 1962, C. Nshorere 116 ( BR); Bweramvula, 20 Jun 1933, G. Molitor 37 ( BR).

Note.

Many materials cited in the Flore du Rwanda by Troupin and Ayobangira (1985) were errors for Equilabium wollastonii (S. Moore) Mwany. & A. J. Paton.

References

Abbreviations

G	Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques de la Ville de Genève
K	Royal Botanic Gardens
BR	Embrapa Agrobiology Diazothrophic Microbial Culture Collection
FT	Centro Studi Erbario Tropicale, Università degli Studi di Firenze
Z	Universität Zürich
W	Naturhistorisches Museum Wien
B	Botanischer Garten und Botanisches Museum Berlin-Dahlem, Zentraleinrichtung der Freien Universitaet
BM	Bristol Museum
E	Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
KIEL	Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel
MPU	Université Montpellier 2
UPS	Uppsala University, Museum of Evolution, Botany Section (Fytoteket)
M	Botanische Staatssammlung München
C	University of Copenhagen

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Plantae
Phylum	Tracheophyta
Class	Magnoliopsida
Order	Lamiales
Family	Lamiaceae
Genus	Coleus