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Plectranthus scutellarioides (L.) R.Br.
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United States
Origin: Exotic
Regularity: Regularly occurring
Currently: Unknown/Undetermined
Confidence: Confident
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Karnataka: All districts Kerala: All districts Tamil Nadu: All districts
Chile Central
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Herbs erect or ascending. Stems usually purple, puberulent, branched. Petiole 1-5 cm; leaf blade ovate, 4-12.5 × 2.5-9 cm, membranous, yellow, dark red, purple, or green, puberulent, sparsely red-brown glandular abaxially, base broadly cuneate to rounded, margin crenate-serrate or crenate, apex obtuse to short acuminate. Panicles 5-10(-25) × 3-5(-8) cm, puberulent; verticillasters many flowered, ca. 1.5 cm in diam.; bracts deciduous, broadly ovate, 2-3 mm, caudate, glandular. Pedicel ca. 2 mm. Calyx campanulate, 2-3 mm in flower, to 7 mm in fruit, 10-veined, minutely hispid, glandular; middle lobe of upper lip broadly ovate, reflexed in fruit; lateral lobes ovate, ca. 1/2 as long as middle lobe; lower lip rhombic, longer than upper lip, lobes narrowly triangular. Corolla purple to blue, 0.8-1.3 cm, puberulent, tube abruptly recurved, throat to 2.5 mm wide, upper lip erect. Nutlets brown, broadly ovoid or globose, 1-1.2 mm, flattened, shiny. Fl. Jul.
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Habit: Herb
Isotype for Coleus scutellarioides Elmer
Catalog Number: US 894521
Collection: Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Botany
Verification Degree: Original publication and alleged type specimen examined
Preparation: Pressed specimen
Collector(s): A. D. E. Elmer
Year Collected: 1912
Locality: Cabadbaran (Mt. Urdaneta), Province of Agusan, Island of Mindanao, Mindanao, Agusan del Norte, Philippines, Asia-Tropical
- Isotype: Elmer, A. D. E. 1915. Leafl. Philipp. Bot. 7: 2697.
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Streamsides, open areas, hills, fields, forests. Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Taiwan, cultivated in all provinces [India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines; Pacific Islands]
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Foodplant / pathogen
Aphelenchoides fragariae infects and damages stunted, distorted, scarred growth (young) of Solenostemon scutellarioides
Other: major host/prey
Foodplant / gall
Meloidogyne causes gall of root of Solenostemon scutellarioides
Other: major host/prey
In Great Britain and/or Ireland:
Foodplant / parasite
hypophyllous Peronospora belbahrii parasitises live Solenostemon scutellarioides
Remarks: captive: in captivity, culture, or experimentally induced
Foodplant / pathogen
Peronospora cf. lamii infects and damages live Solenostemon scutellarioides
Foodplant / sap sucker
Pseudococcus sucks sap of live green part of Solenostemon scutellarioides
United States
Rounded National Status Rank: NNA - Not Applicable
Rounded Global Status Rank: GNR - Not Yet Ranked