Plectranthus
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| Plectranthus | |
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| Flowers of Plectranthus fruticosus | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Eudicots |
| (unranked): | Asterids |
| Order: | Lamiales |
| Family: | Lamiaceae |
| Subfamily: | Nepetoideae |
| Tribe: | Ocimeae |
| Genus: | Plectranthus L'Hér.[1] |
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Many, see text. | |
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Ascocarydion G.Taylor | |
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).
Selected species
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Formerly descibed 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]
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Genus: Plectranthus L'Hér.". Germplasm Resources Information Network. United States Department of Agriculture. 2007-10-05. Retrieved 2011-02-17.
- ↑ Catherine W. Lukhobaa, Monique S.J. Simmonds, and Alan J. Paton (3 January 2006). "Plectranthus: A review of ethnobotanical uses". Journal of Ethnopharmacology 103 (1): 1–24. doi:10.1016/j.jep.2005.09.011. PMID 16289602.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8 3.9 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14 3.15 3.16 3.17 3.18 3.19 3.20 3.21 3.22 3.23 3.24 3.25 3.26 3.27 3.28 3.29 3.30 3.31 3.32 3.33 3.34 3.35 3.36 3.37 3.38 3.39 3.40 3.41 "Plectranthus". Australian Plant Name Index (APNI), IBIS database. Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research, Australian Government, Canberra. Retrieved 2009-02-03.
- ↑ Bussmann, R. W., et al. (2006). Plant use of the Maasai of Sekenani Valley, Maasai Mara, Kenya. J Ethnobiol Ethnomed 2 22.
- ↑ "GRIN Species Records of Plectranthus". Germplasm Resources Information Network. United States Department of Agriculture. Retrieved 2011-02-17.
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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)
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