Coleus scutellarioides
Coleus scutellarioides (L.) Benth
| Order | Lamiales |
|---|---|
| Family | Lamiaceae |
| Genus | Coleus |
2n = 32
Origin : area of origin : Southern Asia, Australia
wild or cultivated
| English | Painted nettle |
|---|---|
| French | Ortie flamboyante |
Uses summary
- ornamental
- medicinal
- planted in hedges
- magical
Description
1, flowering stem; 2, leaf; 3, flower; 4, opened calyx; 5, nutlets (PROSEA, Achmad Satiri Nurhaman)
wild plant
leaves
flowers
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- erect, perennial and branched herbaceous plant, up to 1.5 m tall, without tubers
- oval and membranous leaves, 1-15 cm × 1-10 cm
- flowers in loose whorls or branching cymes of thyrsis; 2 lipped calyx, blue or purple corolla with a whitish tube, 8-13 (-18) mm long
- fruit: broadly ovoid or globose achene, 1-1.2 mm long, shiny, brown (PROSEA)
Popular names
| English | painted nettle (PROSEA) |
| French | coléus; plectranthe fausse-scutellaire, ortie flamboyante, tapis monseigneur (Québec) ; vieux garçon, ortie d'appartement (Réunion) |
| Spanish | cóleo, cretona, vergüenza (Wikipedia) ; ahijado, macho, nene (Mexique) (Mansfeld) |
| Chinese | 五彩苏 - wu cai su (Flora of China) |
| Philippines | badiara, malaina, mayana (general) (PROSEA) |
| Indonesian | jawer kotok (sundanais), kentangan (Javanese), adang-adang (Palembang, Sumatra) (PROSEA) |
| Malaysian | daun ati-ati, ati-ati merah, ati-ati besar (peninsular) (PROSEA) |
| Papua New Guinea | jangata (Morawaka, Eastern Highlands), jeune (Agenehembo, Northern Province), okavu (Kami, Eastern Highlands) (PROSEA) |
| Thai | ruese phasom laeo (centre), waan lueat haeng (Chiang Mai) (PROSEA) |
| Vietnamese | tiá tô tây (PROSEA) |
Classification
Coleus scutellarioides (L.) Benth. (1830)
basionyme :
- Ocimum scutellarioides L. (1763)
synonymes :
- Coleus aromaticus (Roxb.) Benth. (1830)
- Coleus blumei Benth. (1832)
- Plectranthus scutellarioides (L.) R.Br. (1810)
- Plectranthus aromaticus Roxb. (1814)
- Plectranthus blumei (Benth.) Launert (1968)
- Solenostemon scutellarioides (L.) Codd (1975)
- Solenostemon blumei (Benth.) M.Gómez (1914)
Cultivars
Numerous cultivars are cultivated.
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History
Uses
Numerous cultivars worldwide grown ornamentally for its variegated leaves. Locally cultivated as a medicinal plant and supplementary food (Papua New Guinea) or for fencing coffee plantations (Java). Used as a remedy for dyspepsia, ophthalmia and wound infection in SE Asia. Magic plant for divination in southern Mexico.
Mansfeld.