PLANTAE / PHANEROGAMAE / ANTHOPHYTA / LAMIALES / LAMIACEAE / NEPETOIDEAE / OCIMEAE / COLEUS / CANINUS
Annual or weak perennial, erect, branching, semi-succulent herb, 0.15-0.4 m tall; stems villous. Leaves petiolate; blade slightly fleshy, oblanceolate, obovate-oblanceolate, elliptic or ovate-lanceolate, 30-55 x 25-35 mm, sparingly pubescent, under-surface with reddish gland-dots and short gland-tipped hairs, apex acute to obtuse, base cuneate, margin subentire to obscurely few-toothed; petiole 4-20 mm long. Inflorescence a terminal, dense, spike-like raceme 25-90 mm long, simple or occasionally with a pair of branches near the base; bracts forming a 4-angled apical coma, early deciduous; flowers in 3-4-flowered sessile cymes, forming 6-8-flowered closely placed verticils; pedicels erect. Calyx 5 mm long in fruit, similar to P. tetensis. Corolla blue-purple, 8-10 mm long; tube slightly geniculate and expanding about the middle; upper lip 1.5 mm long, lower lip boat-shaped, 5-6 mm long. Stamens 5-6 mm long, united at the base for 1.5 mm. From: Codd, LEW. 1985. Lamiaceae: 23. Plectranthus. In: OA Leistner (ed.). Fl. S. Africa 28(4): 137-172. Botanical Research Institute, Department of Agriculture and Water Supply, Pretoria. [http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/209555#page/9/mode/1up] [CC BY] As: Plectranthus caninus Roth
Closely related to P. neochilus but has more compact (not interrupted) inflorescences and shorter corolla. The leaves are unpleasantly aromatic. From: Codd, LEW. 1985. Lamiaceae: 23. Plectranthus. In: OA Leistner (ed.). Fl. S. Africa 28(4): 137-172. Botanical Research Institute, Department of Agriculture and Water Supply, Pretoria. [http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/209555#page/9/mode/1up] [CC BY] As: Plectranthus caninus Roth
Often growing communally under trees in dry open woodland or on rocky outcrops. From: Codd, LEW. 1985. Lamiaceae: 23. Plectranthus. In: OA Leistner (ed.). Fl. S. Africa 28(4): 137-172. Botanical Research Institute, Department of Agriculture and Water Supply, Pretoria. [http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/209555#page/9/mode/1up] [CC BY] As: Plectranthus caninus Roth
Recorded from India and from Ethiopia through east tropical Africa to Zimbabwe, Zambia and into northern S.W.A./Namibia and northern Transvaal. From: Codd, LEW. 1985. Lamiaceae: 23. Plectranthus. In: OA Leistner (ed.). Fl. S. Africa 28(4): 137-172. Botanical Research Institute, Department of Agriculture and Water Supply, Pretoria. [http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/209555#page/9/mode/1up] [CC BY] As: Plectranthus caninus Roth
This map contains point-based occurrences at different locations
Occurrence in the Flora of Southern Africa (FSA) countries and South African provinces. Residence status indicates if a taxon is indigenous, endemic, naturalised or invasive in a specific region. This data is based on specimen records and literature
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Names and Sources
Published in: Linnaea 37: 318 (1872)
Type: India, Heyne s.n. in Wallich Cat. 2729C (B, holo. destroyed; BM, K00820142, K-W (K001116966), P, iso.)
Plectranthus caninus Roth
Published in: Nov. Pl. Sp.: 279 (1821)
Classification
KINGDOM Plantae
SUBKINGDOM Phanerogamae
PHYLUM Anthophyta
ORDER Lamiales
FAMILY Lamiaceae
SUBFAMILY Nepetoideae
TRIBE Ocimeae
GENUS Coleus
SPECIES caninus
This species contains accepted infraspecific taxa:
10 results for Coleus caninus (Roth) Vatke
Barcode: PRE0120990-0 Collector(s) & number: Sachs, R, PRE 28996 | 1959-2-24
Namibia, GROOTFONTEIN DIST.; E. OF ETOSHA PAN
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Barcode: PRE0620797-0 Collector(s) & number: Giess, JWH, 6334 | 1963-4-22
Namibia, OTJIVARONGO; CLEVELAND OTJ 17
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Barcode: PRE0120991-0 Collector(s) & number: Tolken, HR, 5420 | 1974-5-2
Namibia, GOBABIS
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Barcode: PRE0546940-0 Collector(s) & number: Mauve, AA, 5284 | 1980-2-12
South Africa, Limpopo, NABOOMSPRUIT DIST.; MOSDENE FARM
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Barcode: PRE0121019-0 Collector(s) & number: Giess, JWH, 633 | 1963-4-22
Namibia, OTJIWARONGO DIST.; CLEVELAND OTJ 17 FAR; 4 MI. N. OF OTJIWARONGO
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Barcode: PRE0537193-0 Collector(s) & number: Liebenberg, LCC, 8604 | 1977-5-
South Africa, North West, ROOIBOS PLAAS; 25 KM. NW. VAN PRETORIA
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Barcode: PRE0120989-0 Collector(s) & number: Sachs, R, 2 | 1958-6-4
Namibia, KAKUSE FARM; E. OF ETOSHA PAN
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Barcode: PRE0236409-0 Collector(s) & number: Giess, JWH, 12554 | 1973-3-11
Namibia, GROOTFONTEIN DIST.; AUROS FARM GR 595
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Barcode: PRE0120988-0 Collector(s) & number: Giess, JWH, 6418 | 1963-4-24
Namibia, GROOTFONTEIN DIST.; SISSEKAB GR 54 FARM; AM FARMHAUS
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Barcode: PRE0235124-0 Collector(s) & number: Hardy, DS, 2114 | 1965-6-2
Namibia, GROOTFONTEIN; OTAVIFONTEIN FARM; FARM OTAVIFONTEIN 12 MI. FROM OTAVI ON GROOTFONTEIN RD.
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This map contains point-based occurrences at different locations
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1985
FLORA CHAPTER
Lamiaceae: 1. Ajuga Codd, LEWIn: OA Leistner (ed.). Flora of Southern Africa 28(4)7-8
Botanical Research Institute, Department of Agriculture and Water Supply, Pretoria
1985
FLORA CHAPTER
Lamiaceae: 23. Plectranthus Codd, LEWIn: OA Leistner (ed.). Flora of Southern Africa 28(4)137-172
Botanical Research Institute, Department of Agriculture and Water Supply, Pretoria
No results found for Coleus caninus (Roth) Vatke
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