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五彩苏Coleus scutellarioides (Linn.) Benth.

五彩苏Coleus scutellarioides (Linn.) Benth.

别名:彩叶草;洋紫苏;彩叶苏;假紫苏;锦紫苏;老来红;

科名:唇形科 Labiatae

属名:鞘蕊花属 Coleus

《中国植物志》第66卷542页
  6.五彩苏(北京)洋紫苏(广州植物志),锦紫苏(种子植物名称)
  Coleus scutellarioides (Linn.) Benth. in Wall. Pl. Asiat. Rar. 2: 16. 1830; Labiat. Gen. et Sp. 53. 1832; in DC. Prodr. 12: 73. 1848; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 2: 949. 1858 (incl. varr.); van Steenis in Bull. Jard. Bot. Buitenz. III, 13: 288. 1934; Back. & Bakh. f. Fl. Java 2: 637. 1965; H. Keng in Gard. Bull. Singapore 24: 51, f. 9 et 9a, b. 1969——Ocymum scutellarioides Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. 2, 834. 1762; Burin. f. Fl. Ind. 130. 1768——Coleus blumei Benth. Labiat. Gen et Sp. 56 1832; in DC. Prodr. 12: 75. 1848; Merr. Enum. Philip. 3: 419 1923; Kudo in Mem Fac. Sci. Agr. Taihoku Univ. 2: 144. 1929; 侯宽昭, 广州植物志641. 1956——Coleus acuminatus Benth. in Linnaea 6: 81. 1831; in DC. Prodr. 12: 73. 1848; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 2: 950. 1858; Merr. Enum. Philip. 3: 418 1923.

《Flora of China》 Vol. 17 (1994)
Coleus scutellarioides  (Linnaeus) Bentham
五彩苏   wu cai su
Herbs erect or ascending. Stems usually purple, puberulent, branched. Petiole 1-5 cm; leaf blade ovate, 4-12.5 × 2.5-9 cm, membranous, yellow, dark red, purple, or green, puberulent, sparsely red-brown glandular abaxially, base broadly cuneate to rounded, margin crenate-serrate or crenate, apex obtuse to short acuminate. Panicles 5-10(-25) × 3-5(-8) cm, puberulent; verticillasters many flowered, ca. 1.5 cm in diam.; bracts deciduous, broadly ovate, 2-3 mm, caudate, glandular. Pedicel ca. 2 mm. Calyx campanulate, 2-3 mm in flower, to 7 mm in fruit, 10-veined, minutely hispid, glandular; middle lobe of upper lip broadly ovate, reflexed in fruit; lateral lobes ovate, ca. 1/2 as long as middle lobe; lower lip rhombic, longer than upper lip, lobes narrowly triangular. Corolla purple to blue, 0.8-1.3 cm, puberulent, tube abruptly recurved, throat to 2.5 mm wide, upper lip erect. Nutlets brown, broadly ovoid or globose, 1-1.2 mm, flattened, shiny. Fl. Jul.
Streamsides, open areas, hills, fields, forests. Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Taiwan, cultivated in all provinces [India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines; Pacific Islands]

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