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Taxonomy

Physical Description

Family Lamiaceae:

Herbs, sometimes subshrubs or shrubs, annual or perennial, usually aromatic. Stems and branches usually 4-angled. Leaves opposite, rarely whorled or alternate, simple to pinnately dissected or compound, without stipules. Inflorescences generally compound, sometimes flowers solitary and axillary; verticillasters 2- to many flowered, subtended by leaves or bracts. Flowers bisexual, zygomorphic, rarely subactinomorphic, bracteolate or not. Calyx persistent, 5-toothed, 2-lipped; upper lip 3-toothed or entire (deciduous in Scutellaria) ; lower lip 2- or 4-toothed; tube sometimes hairy annulate inside. Corolla limb usually 2-lipped; upper lip 2-lobed and lower 3-lobed, rarely upper lip entire and lower 4-lobed, also rarely limb (4- or) 5-lobed; tube hairy annulate inside. Stamens epipetalous, 4 or 2, free, rarely filaments connate, sometimes one staminodial; anther 1- or 2-celled, usually dehiscing longitudinally; disc persistent. Ovary superior, 2-celled and each cell 2-ovuled and style subterminal, or ovary 4-parted and each lobe 1-ovuled and style gynobasic (from bases of ovary lobes) with 2-cleft apex. Fruit usually 4 dry nutlets. Seeds with or without endosperm.

Approximately 3500 species in 220 genera, distributed worldwide, but mostly in the Mediterranean region and SW Asia. China has 807 species in 96 genera.^[1]

Distribution

Similar Species

Members of the genus Solenostemon:

There are approximately 729 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus. Here are just 100 of them: S. 'Albert Victor' · S. 'Alice Horn' · S. 'Angel of the North' · S. 'Anne Boleyn' · S. 'Ascot Wine' · S. 'Aurora Sherbet' · S. 'Autumn Gold' · S. 'Autumn Rainbow' · S. 'Autumn' · S. 'Barnum' · S. 'Batemanii' · S. 'Bausei' · S. 'Beauty of Lyons' · S. 'Beauty' · S. 'Beckwith's Gem' · S. 'Berkeleyi' · S. 'Billy Elliot' · S. 'Bizarre Croton' · S. 'Black Dragon' · S. 'Black Heart' · S. 'Black Prince' · S. 'Blackheart' · S. 'Brightness' · S. 'Brilliant' · S. 'Bronze Gloriosus' · S. 'Bronze Queen' · S. 'Butterball' · S. 'Buttercup' · S. 'Buttermilk' · S. 'Carnival' · S. 'Carousel' · S. 'Castle Eden' · S. 'Catherine Cookson' · S. 'Chamaeleon' · S. 'Charles Rudd' · S. 'China Rose' · S. 'City of Durham' · S. 'City of Liverpool' · S. 'City of Middlesborough' · S. 'City of Newcastle' · S. 'City of Sunderland' · S. 'Clarkii' · S. 'Combat' · S. 'Copper Sprite' · S. 'Copper Tone' · S. 'Coppersmith' · S. 'Cream Pennant' · S. 'Crimson Ruffles' · S. 'Crimson Velvet' · S. 'Crinkly Bottom' · S. 'Crocodile' · S. 'Croton' · S. 'Crown of Bohemia' · S. 'Dairy Maid' · S. 'Dazzler' · S. 'Diablo' · S. 'Display' · S. 'Dixii' · S. 'Dolly' · S. 'Dracula' · S. 'Dragon' · S. 'Duke of Edinburgh' · S. 'Durham Gala' · S. 'Ella's Fire' · S. 'Emerald Forest' · S. 'Etna' · S. 'Fire Fern' · S. 'Fire Fingers' · S. 'Firebrand' · S. 'Firedance' · S. 'Firefly' · S.'Fishnet Stocking' (Fishnet Stocking Coleus) · S. 'Flamenco Dancer' · S. 'Flamestitch' · S. 'Freckles' · S. 'Friendship' · S. 'Funfair' · S. 'Gertrude Jekyll' · S. 'Gloriosus' · S. 'Glory of Luxembourg' · S. 'Goldie Supreme' · S. 'Goldie' · S. 'Grace Darling' · S. 'Green Ball' · S. 'Green Croton' · S. 'Green Mantle' · S. 'Green Mars' · S. 'Hanna Hauxwell' · S. 'Hannay Harding' · S. 'Harvest Time' · S. 'Her Majesty' · S. 'Holly' · S. 'Inky Fingers' · S. 'Jean Falmouth' · S. 'Jean' · S. 'Joseph's Coat' · S. 'Josh Cooke' · S. 'Juliet Quartermain' · S. 'Jupiter' · S. 'Kaleidoscope' (Kaleidoscope Coleus)

Bibliography

• Wu Cheng-yih & Li Hsi-wen, eds. 1977. Labiatae. Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 65(2): 1-649, 66: 1-647.

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Notes

Identifiers:

• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 937681

Footnotes:

1. Xi-wen Li & Ian C. Hedge "Lamiaceae". in Flora of China Vol. 17 Page 50. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org.