Coleus graveolens

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Family Lamiaceae

Taxonomy: Coleus graveolens (R.Br.) A.J.Paton

Synonyms: 4 (APC 2026-07-30)

Plectranthus australis f. eximius Domin (taxonomic synonym)
Plectranthus australis var. graveolens (R.Br.) Domin (nomenclatural synonym)
Plectranthus graveolens R.Br. (nomenclatural synonym)
Plectranthus parviflorus var. graveolens (R.Br.) Briq. (nomenclatural synonym)

Misapplied names: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)

Plectranthus parviflorus Willd. (misapplied)

Distribution (APC): Qld, NSW, LHI (presumed extinct), Vic

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

Traits

Top source datasets: Cooper_2013 (11), Kew_2019_1 (1), Kew_2019_6 (2), NHNSW_2014_2 (4), NHNSW_2022 (3), NHNSW_2023 (12), RBGV_2022 (4), RBGV_2023 (19), Sjostrom_2006 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (19), Wright_2000 (4). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 47 traits from 84 records in 13 datasets.

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

fire response

resprouting_capacity (categorical): fire_killed (1) [sources: White_2020]

flower morphology

flower_colour (categorical): blue_purple (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 4.5 mm (4-5 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
fruit_type (categorical): mericarp (1); nut (1); nutlet (1) [sources: Cooper_2013; RBGV_2023; Wright_2000]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Wright_2000]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (1); indehiscent (2) [sources: Cooper_2013; Sjostrom_2006; Wright_2000]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 53.75 mm (15-105 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 38.75 mm (15-75 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
petiole_length (numerical): 3.12 cm (0.5-6 cm) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (2); ovate (2); widely_ovate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
leaf_base_shape (categorical): cordate (1); cuneate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): toothed_crenate (2); toothed_dentate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): opposite (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: White_2020]
plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (5) [sources: Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2022; RBGV_2022; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: NHNSW_2022; RBGV_2022; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (3) [sources: NHNSW_2022; RBGV_2022; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (1); prostrate (1); sprawling (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; RBGV_2022]
nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: White_2020]
parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (1) [sources: White_2020]
pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (1) [sources: White_2020]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): zoochory (1) [sources: White_2020]
dispersers (categorical): invertebrates (1) [sources: White_2020]
flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnnnnnnnn (1); yyyyyyyyyynn (1); yyyyyyyyyyyy (1) [sources: Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2014_2; White_2020]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): transient (1) [sources: White_2020]
vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (1) [sources: White_2020]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.17 mg (0.17-0.17 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
seed_length (numerical): 1 mm (1-1 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
seed_width (numerical): 1.1 mm (1-1.2 mm) [sources: RBGV_2023]
seed_shape (categorical): lenticular (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 1.33 m (0.5-2 m) [sources: Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2023; RBGV_2023]
plant_physical_defence_structures (categorical): absent (1) [sources: White_2020]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
RBGV_2023	13	19	VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
White_2020	19	19	M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020.
NHNSW_2023	9	12	N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
Cooper_2013	9	11	W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
NHNSW_2014_2	4	4	Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
RBGV_2022	4	4	VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
Wright_2000	4	4	I. J. Wright, H. T. Clifford, R. Kidson, M. L. Reed, B. L. Rice, and M. Westoby. “A survey of seed and seedling characters in 1744 Australian dicotyledon species: Cross-species trait correlations and correlated trait-shifts within evolutionary lineages”. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 69 (2000), pp. 521-547. doi: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2000.tb01222.x.
NHNSW_2022	3	3	N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
Kew_2019_6	1	2	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Germination data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Sjostrom_2006	2	2	A. 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_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Kew_2019_1	1	1	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.