Plectranthus

Plectranthus
	Flowers of Plectranthus fruticosus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Eudicots
(unranked):	Asterids
Order:	Lamiales
Family:	Lamiaceae
Subfamily:	Nepetoideae
Tribe:	Ocimeae
Genus:	Plectranthus; L'Hér.
Species
	Many, see text.
Synonyms
	Ascocarydion G.Taylor; Burnatastrum Briq.; Capitanya Gürke; Coleus Lour.; Dielsia Kudô; Englerastrum Briq.; Germanea Lam.; Holostylon Robyns & Lebrun; Isodictyophorus Briq.; Leocus A.Chev.; Neomuellera Briq.; Perrierastrum Guillaumin; Symphostemon Hiern

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Plectranthus argentatus

Plectranthus, with some 350 species, is a genus of warm-climate plants occurring largely in the southern hemisphere, in sub-Saharan Africa, Madagascar, India and the Indonesian archipelago down to Australia and some Pacific islands. It is closely related to Solenostemon and known as the spurflowers. Several species are grown as ornamental plants, as leaf vegetables, as root vegetables for their edible tubers, or as medicine.^[2]

Plectranthus species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including The Engrailed (Ectropis crepuscularia).

[edit] Selected species

^ ^a ^b "Genus: Plectranthus L'Hér.". Germplasm Resources Information Network. United States Department of Agriculture. 2007-10-05. http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/genus.pl?9545. Retrieved 2011-02-17.
^ Catherine W. Lukhobaa, Monique S.J. Simmonds, and Alan J. Paton (3 January 2006). "Plectranthus: A review of ethnobotanical uses". Journal of Ethnopharmacology 103 (1): 1–24. doi:10.1016/j.jep.2005.09.011. PMID 16289602.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p ^q ^r ^s ^t ^u ^v ^w ^x ^y ^z ^aa ^ab ^ac ^ad ^ae ^af ^ag ^ah ^ai ^aj ^ak ^al ^am ^an ^ao ^ap "Plectranthus". Australian Plant Name Index (APNI), IBIS database. Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research, Australian Government, Canberra. http://www.anbg.gov.au/cgi-bin/apni?TAXON_NAME=PLECTRANTHUS. Retrieved 2009-02-03.
^ Bussmann, R. W., et al. (2006). Plant use of the Maasai of Sekenani Valley, Maasai Mara, Kenya. J Ethnobiol Ethnomed 2 22.
^ "GRIN Species Records of Plectranthus". Germplasm Resources Information Network. United States Department of Agriculture. http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/splist.pl?9545. Retrieved 2011-02-17.

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Plectranthus

Flowers of Plectranthus fruticosus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Eudicots
(unranked):	Asterids
Order:	Lamiales
Family:	Lamiaceae
Subfamily:	Nepetoideae
Tribe:	Ocimeae
Genus:	Plectranthus L'Hér.^[1]
Species
Many, see text.
Synonyms
Ascocarydion G.Taylor Burnatastrum Briq. Capitanya Gürke Coleus Lour. Dielsia Kudô Englerastrum Briq. Germanea Lam. Holostylon Robyns & Lebrun Isodictyophorus Briq. Leocus A.Chev. Neomuellera Briq. Perrierastrum Guillaumin Symphostemon Hiern^[1]