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Coleus scutellarioides

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Family Lamiaceae

Taxonomy: Coleus scutellarioides (L.) Benth.

Synonyms: 6 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Coleus atropurpureus Benth. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Coleus scutellarioides var. angustifolia Benth. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Ocimum scutellarioides L. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Ocymum scutellarioides L. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Plectranthus scutellarioides (L.) R.Br. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Solenostemon scutellarioides (L.) Codd (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA, NT, Qld

Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, NT eFlora, Florabase, ATRP

Traits

Top source datasets: Brock_1993 (9), Cooper_2013 (11), Crowley_2007 (2), Kew_2019_1 (1), Nano_2011 (2), Sjostrom_2006 (2), Sweedman_2006 (3), WAH_2022_2 (4), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (2). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 23 traits from 41 records in 12 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
flower morphology
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 9 mm (5-13 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]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 57.5 mm (30-85 mm) [sources: Brock_1993]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 32.5 mm (15-50 mm) [sources: Brock_1993]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): ovate (1) [sources: Brock_1993]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: Brock_1993]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (4) [sources: Brock_1993; Cooper_2013; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): annual (1); perennial (3) [sources: Brock_1993; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (2) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (1) [sources: WAH_2022_2]
  • flowering_time (categorical): yyyyyynnnnnn (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
  • bud_bank_location (categorical): none (2) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.28 mg (0.28-0.28 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
  • seed_length (numerical): 1 mm (1-1 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 0.87 m (0.2-1 m) [sources: Brock_1993; Cooper_2013; WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
Cooper_2013911W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
Brock_199379J. Brock and A. Dunlop. Native plants of northern Australia. Reed New Holland, 1993. ISBN: 9781877069246.
WAH_2022_244Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Sweedman_200613L. Sweedman and D. Merritt. Australian Seeds: A Guide to Their Collection, Identification, and Biology. CSIRO Publishing, 2006. ISBN: 9780643094079.
Crowley_200722G. Crowley, M. Gardener, and M. Marrinan. Tropical savannas fire response database. 2007. url: [www.landmanager.org.au](www.landmanager.org.au).
Nano_201122C. E. M. Nano and P. J. Clarke. “How do drought and fire influence the patterns of resprouting in Australian deserts?”. Plant Ecology 212 (2011), pp. 2095-2110. doi: 10.1007/s11258-011-9988-x.
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.
WAH_2023_212Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
eFLOWER_Dun_202222L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022.
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.