Plectranthus
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Flowers of Plectranthus fruticosus | |
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Plectranthus
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Ascocarydion G.Taylor |
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Plectranthus, with some 350 species, is a genus of warm-climate plants occurring largely in the southern hemisphere, in sub-Saharan Africa, Madagascar, India and the Indonesian archipelago down to Australia and some Pacific Islands. They are closely related to Solenostemon and are known as the spurflowers. Several species are grown as ornamental plants, as leaf vegetables, as root vegetables for their edible tubers, or as medicine.[2]
Plectranthus species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including The Engrailed (Ectropis crepuscularia).
Many plants called coleus actually belong to this genus, as Coleus is no longer recognized.
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Selected species
Formerly described as Plectranthus
- Anisochilus carnosus (L. f.) Wall. ex Benth. (as P. strobilifer Roxb.)
- Isodon coetsa (Buch.-Ham. ex D.Don) Kudô (as P. coetsa Buch.-Ham. ex D.Don)
- Isodon inflexus (Thunb.) Kudô (as P. inflexus (Thunb.) Vahl ex Benth.)
- Isodon lophanthoides (Buch.-Ham. ex D.Don) H.Hara (as P. striatus Benth.)
- Isodon rugosus (Wall. ex Benth.) Codd (as P. rugosus Wall. ex Benth.)
- Isodon sculponeatus (Vaniot) Kudô (as P. sculponeatus Vaniot)[5]
Image gallery
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References
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Wikispecies has information related to: Plectranthus |
- Multilingual taxonomic information from the University of Melbourne
- EcoPort on P. rotundifolius
- PROTAbase on P. rotundifolius synonym for Solenostemon rotundifolius
- EcoPort on P. esculentus (with tuber photo)
- Lamiales Newsletter on P. esculentus
- Little-known African Tubers (discusses P. rotundifolius and P. esculentus)