AusTraits

Coleus diversus

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Family Lamiaceae

Taxonomy: Coleus diversus (S.T.Blake) P.I.Forst. & T.C.Wilson

Synonyms: 3 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Plectranthus diversus S.T.Blake (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Plectranthus sp. (Font Hills BG 6336) (taxonomic synonym)
  • Plectranthus sp. (Font Hills) (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): Qld

Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, ATRP

Traits

Top source datasets: ANBG_2019 (1), Cooper_2013 (10), Kew_2019_1 (1), Kew_2019_6 (3), Sjostrom_2006 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 13 traits from 20 records in 7 datasets.

Traits by category (click to expand). For categorical traits, the values are listed. For numerical traits, the mean and range are shown.

flower morphology
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 5 mm (5-5 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_type (categorical): nut (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (1); indehiscent (1) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006]
life history
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.12 mg (0.1-0.13 mg) [sources: ANBG_2019; Kew_2019_1]
  • seed_length (numerical): 1 mm (1-1 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 2 m (2-2 m) [sources: Cooper_2013]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
Cooper_2013810W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
Kew_2019_613Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Germination data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Sjostrom_200622A. Sjöström and C. L. Gross. “Life-history characters and phylogeny are correlated with extinction risk in the Australian angiosperms”. Journal of Biogeography 33.2 (2006), pp. 271-290. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2005.01393.x.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
ANBG_201911Australian National Botanic Gardens. The National Seed Bank. 2018. url: http://www.anbg.gov.au/gardens/living/seedbank/.
Kew_2019_111Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.