Coleus dissitiflorus Gürke (1894:217)
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Plectranthus dissitiflorus (Gürke) J.K.Morton in J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 58: 267 (1962)
Conservation Status
Missing (Cable & Cheek, 1998; Cheek & Cable, 2000; Cheek et al., 2021) or Rediscovered (Humphreys et al., 2019; Murphy et al., 2023:16)
Last record: 9 October 1891 (Cheek & Cable, 2000 [as 1891]; Onana et al., 2011:170; Murphy et al., 2023:16 [as October 1891]) or later
Distribution & Habitat
Angola & Buea-Bimbia, Mt. Cameroon, Cameroon
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
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Cheek, Martin, Ndam, Nouhou and Budden, Andrew. (2021). Notes on the threatened lowland forests of Mt Cameroon and their endemics including Drypetes burnleyae sp. nov., with a key to species of Drypetes sect. Stipulares (Putranjivaceae). Kew Bull. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12225-021-09947-2
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Humphreys, Aelys M., Govaerts, Rafaël, Ficinski, Sarah Z., Lughadha, Eimear Nic and Vorontsova, Maria S. (2019). Global dataset shows geography and life form predict modern plant extinction and rediscovery. Nature Ecology & Evolution 3: 1043-1047. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-019-0906-2 [Supplementary Dataset 1]
Murphy, Bruce, Onana, Jean Michel, Burgt, Xander M. van der, Ngansop Tchatchouang, Eric, Williams, Jenny, Tchiengué, Barthélemy and Cheek, Martin. (2023). Important Plant Areas of Cameroon. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 302 pp. [automatic download]
Onana, Jean Michel, Cheek, Martin and Pollard, Benedict John. (2011). Red Data Book of the Flowering Plants of Cameroon: IUCN Global Assessments. Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK: Kew Publishing. 578 pp.
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