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Coleus aegyptiacus (Forssk.) A.J.Paton

Lamiaceae · Djibouti, Eritrea +8

No habitat climate
Photographs not checked iNaturalist was skipped (not asked) when this page was built. Not asked, or not answered, is not "none": nothing here claims there is none. Why the site says it this way.
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About the genus · Coleus

Coleus is a genus of annual or perennial herbs or shrubs, sometimes succulent, sometimes with a fleshy or tuberous rootstock, found in the Afro-Eurasia tropics and subtropics.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Coleus", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: 31 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km. 31 of the 31 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or to no stated accuracy and fewer than three decimals or by something other than a person's observation, and cannot place a climate cell, though they count for the map and its marker.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeDjibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia, Sudan, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Saudi Arabia, Yemen · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Map marker-2.333, 37.967 · in the densest population, 22 records (71% of those in range)
Kew's description“subshrub or shrub” · “desert or dry shrubland” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 31 georeferenced records inside the native range, all openly licensed and shown on the map. 1 record outside the WCVP native range not used. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 31 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stay on the map but off the climate.
How this section is made
The map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population inside the densest 4° block of the 31 in-range records; it decides nothing. Records outside the native range, living specimens and records marked introduced are not used; which records count.

Photographs

Not checked. iNaturalist was skipped (not asked) when this page was built; GBIF's observation records with coordinates hold none. Not a statement that none exist.

Other Coleus 37 in the reference

Coleus aliciae Kentani Hullwort Coleus alloplectus Coleus alloplectus Narrow-leaved coleus Photo: CC BY, Lucas ChristofidesColeus amboinicus Coleus amboinicus Cuban oregano Photo: CC0, author not stated Coleus arabicus Lamiaceae Coleus argentatus Coleus argentatus Silver spurflower Photo: CC BY, Thomas MesaglioColeus australis Coleus australis Cockspur flower Photo: CC BY-SA, Greg TasneyColeus barbatus Coleus barbatus Abyssinian Coleus Photo: CC BY, Dave RichardsonColeus bellus Coleus bellus Mount Carbine Hullwort Photo: CC BY-SA, Craig FranklinColeus bojeri Coleus bojeri Lamiaceae Photo: CC0, author not statedColeus caninus Coleus caninus Dog Hullwort Photo: CC0, author not statedColeus comosus Coleus comosus Lamiaceae Photo: CC BY, Presha SoogrimColeus cylindraceus Coleus cylindraceus Camphor Spurflower Photo: CC BY, Morten Ross all 38 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Coleus camporum; Coleus ghindanus; Coleus rupestris; Coleus tenuiflorus; Coleus zatarhendi and 8 more. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Lamiaceae
Described by
(Forssk.) A.J.Paton
Native to
Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia +7
Wild records
31 in range · 31 open

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-21
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-21
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-21
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-21names fetched 2026-10-21
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-2131 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-21
Wikipedia wikipedia nothing to reportasked 2026-10-21
iNaturalist taxon inat.taxon not asked
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild not asked
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media nothing to reportasked 2026-10-21
Wikimedia Commons commons nothing to reportasked 2026-10-21
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 6 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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