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Coleus comosus Hochst. ex Gürke

Lamiaceae · Eritrea, Ethiopia +3

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Summary

Coleus comosus, synonym Plectranthus ornatus, is a flowering plant from the mint family Lamiaceae, native to eastern Africa (Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda).

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

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: Only 1 distinct land cell of the climate grid holds an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope. 13 of the 14 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.
NativeEritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda · introduced: KwaZulu-Natal, Northern Provinces · 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 marker9.8, 38.7 · in the densest population, 8 records (57% of those in range)
Kew's description“semisucculent subshrub or shrub” · “seasonally dry tropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 14 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 13 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker in the same place. 87 records outside the WCVP native range not used. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 13 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 of the 14 in-range records; it decides nothing. Records outside the native range, living specimens and records marked introduced are not used; which records count.

Photographs

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Photographs: (c) Presha Soogrim, some rights reserved (CC BY); Michael Wolf, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons; User:Zenwort, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Other Coleus 37 in the reference

Coleus aegyptiacus Lamiaceae 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 cylindraceus Coleus cylindraceus Camphor Spurflower Photo: CC BY, Morten Ross all 38 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Plectranthus ornatus. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Lamiaceae
Described by
Hochst. ex Gürke
Native to
Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya +2
Wild records
14 in range · 13 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; 5 records within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (2 at a botanic garden or arboretum, 1 at a herbarium, 2 at a zoo; Wikidata's list)
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-21only 1 distinct land cell of the climate grid holds an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-21
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-21
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild answeredasked 2026-10-22from iNaturalist's open data of 2026-09-27: research-grade observations with an open-licence photograph, the 24 whose photographs iNaturalist received last (the open data holds no votes); filled 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media answeredasked 2026-10-21none of the photographs on this page is credited to GBIF: those shown are other sources', and GBIF's were the same photographs or were set aside by the photograph rules
Wikimedia Commons commons answeredasked 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 36 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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