Coleus repens Gürke

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.13629882
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/43BF860A-DFC3-519A-B688-0EAACA2157AE
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scientific name	Coleus repens Gürke
status

Treatment

Coleus repens Gürke View in CoL , Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 19: 213. 1894.

Type.

Cameroon, Mt Kupe, Nyasoso, nature trail above the Government High School, B. Pollard 83 (neotype K [ K 000051084 ]; isoneotype KUPE, WAG, YA, designated by Pollard [2005]).

Description.

Paton (2022: 53).

Distribution.

W & WC Tropical Africa.

Habitat and ecology.

Rain forest; ca. 500 m elev.

Additional specimens.

DR. Congo, Forestier Central, Katako Kombe, Jan 1910, J. Claessens 406 ( BR).

Note.

This species is known from a single collection in DR. Congo, ca. 1000 km east of nearest localities in the Republic of Congo; the materials from DR. Congo departs from typical materials in having lateral calyx teeth obtuse at tip, not acuminate.

References

Abbreviations

B	Botanischer Garten und Botanisches Museum Berlin-Dahlem, Zentraleinrichtung der Freien Universitaet
K	Royal Botanic Gardens
WAG	Wageningen University
YA	National Herbarium of Cameroon
W	Naturhistorisches Museum Wien
BR	Embrapa Agrobiology Diazothrophic Microbial Culture Collection