Summary
The inclusion of Isodictyophorus Briq. in Plectranthus L’Hér. is completed with the transfer of I. reticulatus (A. Chev.) J. K. Morton, for which a new combination, Plectranthus reticulatus B. J. Pollard, is made. Two IUCN conservation assessments are provided for P. reticulatus and P. defoliatus.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Similar content being viewed by others
References
Agnew, A. D. Q. (1974). Upland Kenya Wild Flowers: a Flora of the Ferns and Herbaceous Flowering Plants of Upland Kenya. Oxford University Press.
____ & Agnew, S. (1994). Upland Kenya Wild Flowers: a Flora of the Ferns and Herbaceous Flowering Plants of Upland Kenya. East Africa Natural History Society, Nairobi.
Baker, J. G. (1890). Further contributions to the Flora of Madagascar. J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 25: 294 – 350.
____ (1900). Labiatae. In: W. T. Thiselton Dyer (ed.), Flora of Tropical Africa vol. 5: Acanthaceae to Plantagineae, pp. 332 – 502. Lovell Reeve & Co., London.
Bentham, G. (1848). Plectranthus defoliatus. In: A. P. de Candolle, Prodromus systematis naturalis regni vegetabilis. 12: 60. Sumptibus Sociorum Treuttel et Wurtz, Paris.
Briquet J. (1912). Novitates Florae Africanae. Plantes Nouvelles de l’Afrique Tropicale Française décrites d’après les collections de M. Aug. Chevalier. Mém. Soc. Bot. France 2, 8b: 111 – 224.
____ (1914, published 1917). Novitates Florae Africanae. Plantes Nouvelles de l’Afrique Tropicale Française décrites d’après les collections de M. Aug. Chevalier. Mém. Soc. Bot. France 2, 8e: 247 – 306.
Chevalier, A. (1912). Novitates florae africanae. Mém. 8d Soc. Bot. France.
____ (1920). Exploration Botanique Afrique Occidentale Française 1. Paul Lechevalier, Paris.
Guillaumet, J.-L. & Cornet, A. (1976). Note taxonomique sur Quelques Ocimoideae-Plectranthinae (Labiées) de Madagascar. Adansonia sér. 2, 15(4): 520 – 529.
Hedge, I. C., Clement, R. A., Paton, A. J. & Phillipson, P. B. (1998). Famille 175 - Labiatae. In: P. Morat (ed.), Flore de Madagascar et des Comores, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris.
Hutchinson, J. & Dalziel, J. M. (eds) (1931). Flora of West Tropical Africa 1st ed. Vol. 2. Crown Agents for the Colonies, London.
IUCN (2001). IUCN Red List Categories and Criteria: Version 3.1. IUCN Species Survival Commission. IUCN, Gland and Cambridge.
Morton, J. K. (1962). Cytogenetic studies on the West African Labiatae. J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 58: 231 – 283.
____ (1963). Labiatae. In: F. N. Hepper (ed.), Flora of West Tropical Africa. 2nd ed. Vol. 2: 450 – 473. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Paton, A. J., Springate, D., Suddee, S., Otieno, D., Grayer, R. J., Harley, M. M., Willis, F., Simmonds, M. S. J., Powell, M. & Savolainen, V. (2004). Phylogeny and evolution of basils and allies (Ocimeae, Labiatae) based on three plastid DNA regions. Molec. Phylogenet. Evol. 31: 277 – 299.
____, Bramley, G., Ryding, O., Polhill, R. M., Harvey, Y. B., Iwarsson, M., Willis, F., Phillipson, P. B., Balkwill, K., Lukhoba, C. W., Otieno, D. F. & Harley, R. M. (2009). Lamiaceae. In: H. J. Beentje & S. A. Ghazanfar (eds), R. M. Polhill (guest ed.), Flora of East Tropical Africa, pp. 1 – 431. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Pollard, B. J. & Paton, A. J. (2009). The African Plectranthus (Labiatae) expansion continues. Vale Leocus! Kew Bull. 64: 259 – 261.
Acknowledgements
We thank the reviewers of the manuscript for their helpful comments.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Rights and permissions
About this article
Cite this article
Pollard, B.J., Paton, A. Further expansion of African Plectranthus (Lamiaceae): completing the subsumption of Isodictyophorus. Kew Bull 67, 49–50 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12225-012-9347-7
Accepted:
Published:
Issue Date:
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12225-012-9347-7