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Plectranthus elegans Britten

Lamiaceae · Malawi

No habitat climate
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About the genus · Plectranthus

Plectranthus is a genus of about 85 species of flowering plants from the mint/sage family, Lamiaceae, found mostly in southern and tropical Africa and Madagascar. Common names include spur-flower. Plectranthus species are herbaceous perennial plants, rarely annuals or soft-wooded shrubs, sometimes succulent; sometimes with a tuberous base.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Plectranthus", 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. 15 of the 16 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.
NativeMalawi · 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-15.883, 35.6 · in the densest population, 15 records (94% of those in range)
Kew's description“shrub” · “subtropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 16 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 15 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 1 km away. 1 record outside the WCVP native range not used. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 15 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 16 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: Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA, iNaturalist via GBIF; Phil Bendle, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (3).

Other Plectranthus 15 in the reference

Plectranthus ambiguus Plectranthus ambiguus Pincushion Spurflower Photo: CC0, author not statedPlectranthus chimanimanensis Plectranthus chimanimanensis Chimanimani Spurflower Photo: CC BY-SA, Tony RebeloPlectranthus ciliatus Plectranthus ciliatus Speckled spur-flower Photo: CC BY, Bruce CalvertPlectranthus ecklonii Plectranthus ecklonii Ecklon spurflower Photo: CC BY, Caroline VogetPlectranthus ernstii Plectranthus ernstii Bonsai Mint Photo: CC BY-SA, Frank VincentzPlectranthus fruticosus Plectranthus fruticosus Forest Spurflower Photo: CC BY, jeanjacquesgodonPlectranthus grallatus Plectranthus grallatus Drakensberg Spurflower Photo: CC BY-SA, Tony RebeloPlectranthus lucidus Plectranthus lucidus Shiny Spurflower Photo: CC BY, Henry de LangePlectranthus malvinus Plectranthus malvinus Mauve Spurflower Photo: CC BY, Caroline VogetPlectranthus oertendahlii Plectranthus oertendahlii Candleplant Photo: CC0, DinkumPlectranthus purpuratus Plectranthus purpuratus Cliff Spurflower Photo: CC BY, Sunčana BradleyPlectranthus saccatus Plectranthus saccatus Stoep Jacaranda Photo: CC BY, Caroline Voget all 16 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Coleus mahonii; Plectranthus mahonii. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Lamiaceae
Described by
Britten
Native to
Malawi
Wild records
16 in range · 15 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 2026-10-22
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-22names fetched 2026-10-22
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; 1 record within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (1 at a botanic garden or arboretum; Wikidata's list)
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22only 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 2026-10-22
Wikipedia wikipedia nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22
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 answeredasked 2026-10-22
Wikimedia Commons commons answeredasked 2026-10-22
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 4 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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