Coleus fredericii
Species of flowering plant
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Coleus fredericii, synonym Plectranthus welwitschii, is a species of plant in the family Lamiaceae.[1] The epithet is also spelt frederici.[2]
| Coleus fredericii | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Lamiales |
| Family: | Lamiaceae |
| Genus: | Coleus |
| Species: | C. fredericii |
| Binomial name | |
| Coleus fredericii G.Taylor[1] | |
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The species was originally described by John Isaac Briquet in 1894, as Neomuellera welwitschii.[2] It was transferred to the genus Plectranthus by Leslie Codd in 1972. A 2018 phylogenetic study showed that Plectranthus, as then circumscribed was not monophyletic, and so revived the then defunct genus Coleus. Since the name Coleus welwitschii had already been used for a different species, Taylor's name Coleus fredericii was used instead.[1]
