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Coleus thalassoscopicus

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Family Lamiaceae

Taxonomy: Coleus thalassoscopicus (P.I.Forst.) P.I.Forst.

Synonyms: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Plectranthus sp. (Mt Bell) (taxonomic synonym)
  • Plectranthus thalassoscopicus P.I.Forst. (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ATRP_2020 (1), Cooper_2013 (11), Sjostrom_2006 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 12 traits from 17 records in 5 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): 4 mm (4-4 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_length (numerical): 1 mm (1-1 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 0.6 m (0.6-0.6 m) [sources: Cooper_2013]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
Cooper_2013911W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
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 “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
ATRP_202011F. A. Zich, B. P. Hyland, T. Whiffin, and R. A. Kerrigan. Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants, Edition 8. 2020. url: https://apps.lucidcentral.org/rainforest/text/intro/index.html.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.