The Plant List — A working list for all plant species

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Coleus

The genus Coleus is in the family Lamiaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Coleus

See "Status", "Confidence level", "Source" for definitions.

Name Status Confi­dence level Source
Coleus forskohlii (Willd.) Briq. Accepted M TRO

Statistics

The Plant List includes 325 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Coleus. Of these 1 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 24 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Coleus. We do not intend The Plant List to be complete for names of infraspecific rank. These are primarily included because names of species rank are synonyms of accepted infraspecific names.

Species names

The status of the 325 species names for the genus Coleus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 1 0.3%
Synonym 260 80.0%
Unplaced 60 18.5%
Unassessed 4 1.2%

All names

The status of the 349 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Coleus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 1 0.3%
Synonym 284 81.4%
Unplaced 60 17.2%
Unassessed 4 1.1%

Of these names,

The confidence with which the status of the 325 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Coleus, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Total
High confidence 0 251 0 0 251 77.2%
Medium confidence 1 3 0 0 4 1.2%
Low confidence 0 6 60 4 70 21.5%

The source of the species name record found in The Plant List for the genus Coleus, are as follows:

Source of record Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Misapplied Total
Tropicos 1 3 0 4 0 8 2.5%
WCSP 0 257 60 0 0 317 97.5%