Coleus succulentus Pax

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.13629910
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scientific name	Coleus succulentus Pax
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Treatment

Coleus succulentus Pax View in CoL , Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 39: 646. 1907.

= Plectranthus pseudomarrubioides R. H. Willemse View in CoL , Kew Bull. 40: 93. 1985. Type: Ethiopia, Debre Libanos, 2 Nov 1965, W. J. J. O. de Wilde & de Wilde-Duyfjes 8656 (holotype WAG [ WAG 0001746]; isotype BR [ BR 0000005232543 ]).

Type.

Ethiopia, Zuquala Mt., O. Ryding & C. Puff 1657 (neotype UPS [V- 057092]; isoneotype ETH, designated by Ryding [2000]).

Description.

Paton et al. (2009: 320), as Plectranthus pseudomarrubioides R. H. Willemse.

Distribution.

Ethiopia to N. Tanzania, Arabian Peninsula.

Habitat and ecology.

Saxicolous, near riparian forest, ca. 900 m elev.

Additional specimens.

DR. Congo, Haut-Katanga, Kundelungu, Sampwe, galerie forestière de la rivière Mufungwe, 10 Apr 1949, G. F. de Witte 6005 ( BR).

Notes.

1. New species record for DR. Congo.

2. The locality in Katanga is remarkably disjunct, ca. 1000 km in the SW of the nearest locations in N Tanzania.

3. Another collection from Upemba National Park (Katanga) ( G. F. de Witte 6449), is intermediate between C. succulentus and C. cylindraceus .

References

Abbreviations

W	Naturhistorisches Museum Wien
O	Botanical Museum - University of Oslo
WAG	Wageningen University
BR	Embrapa Agrobiology Diazothrophic Microbial Culture Collection
C	University of Copenhagen
UPS	Uppsala University, Museum of Evolution, Botany Section (Fytoteket)
ETH	Kultursammlungen der Eidgenosische Technische Hochschule
G	Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques de la Ville de Genève