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Taxon:  Plectranthus barbatus Andrews



Summary
Genus:
Plectranthus
Family:
Lamiaceae (alt. Labiatae)
Subfamily:
Nepetoideae
Tribe:
Ocimeae
Subtribe:
Plectranthinae
Nomen number:
28829
Place of publication:
Bot. Repos. 10: t. 594. 1810
Comment:
authorship of names in this work follows Shenzhen ICN 46.8; there is no internal evidence in the work for any author other than Andrews (fide K. Gandhi, pers. comm. on 7 Aug 2006)
Verified:
06/05/2010 ARS Systematic Botanists.
Accessions:
1 (1  active, 0  available) in National Plant Germplasm System.  (Map it)
Other conspecific taxa
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Homotypic Synonym(s)
Coleus barbatus (Andrews) Benth.

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Coleus penzigii Baker
Invalid Designation(s)
Coleus forskohlii auct.
Plectranthus forskohlii auct.
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Reference(s)
  1. Dassanayake, M. D. & F. R. Fosberg, eds. 1980-. A revised handbook to the flora of Ceylon. Note: = Coleus barbatus (Andrews) Benth.
  2. Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs
  3. Dyer, R. A. et al., eds. 1963-. Flora of southern Africa.
  4. Erhardt, W. et al. 2008. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen
  5. Ghazanfar, S. A. 1992. An annotated catalogue of the vascular plants of Oman. Scripta Botanica Belgica 2
  6. Grierson, A. J. C. & D. J. Long. 1984-. Flora of Bhutan including a record of plants from Sikkim.
  7. Hanelt, P., ed. 2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6
  8. Hara, H. et al. 1978-1982. An enumeration of the flowering plants of Nepal. Note: = Coleus barbatus (Andrews) Benth.
  9. Hedberg, I. & S. Edwards. 1989-. Flora of Ethiopia Note: Eritrea added in 2000
  10. McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2 American Herbal Products Association, Silver Spring, Maryland.
  11. Nasir, E. & S. I. Ali, eds. 1970-. Flora of [West] Pakistan.
  12. Padua, L. S. de et al., eds. 1999. Medicinal and poisonous plants 1. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA) 12(1):408.
  13. Personal Care Products Council. INCI
  14. Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
  15. Suddee, S. et al. 2004. A taxonomic revision of tribe Ocimeae Dumort. (Lamiaceae) in continental South East Asia II. Plectranthinae. Kew Bull. 59:389-391.
  16. Thulin, M., ed. 1993-. Flora of Somalia.
  17. Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. 1952-. Flora of tropical East Africa.
  18. Wood, J. R. I. 1997. A handbook of the Yemen flora.
  19. Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994-. Flora of China (English edition). Note: = Coleus forskholii (Willd.) Briq.
Common names
English
forskohlii –
Distribution
order_codeStatusContinentSubcontinentCountryStateNote
1NativeAfricaEast Tropical AfricaKenya  
1NativeAfricaEast Tropical AfricaTanzania  
1NativeAfricaEast Tropical AfricaUganda  
1NativeAfricaNortheast Tropical AfricaEritrea  
1NativeAfricaNortheast Tropical AfricaEthiopia  
1NativeAfricaNortheast Tropical AfricaSomalia  
1NativeAfricaNortheast Tropical AfricaSudan  
1NativeAfricaWest-Central Tropical AfricaBurundi  
1NativeAfricaWest-Central Tropical AfricaDemocratic Republic of the Congo  
1NativeAfricaWest-Central Tropical AfricaRwanda  
1NativeAsia-TemperateArabian PeninsulaOmanAl Batinah North 
1NativeAsia-TemperateArabian PeninsulaYemen  
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentBhutan  
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentIndia  
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentNepal  
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentSri Lanka  
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndo-ChinaThailand  
2Cultivated    widely cult.
2CultivatedAfricaSouth Tropical AfricaZimbabwe  
2CultivatedAfricaSouthern AfricaSouth Africa  
2CultivatedAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentIndia  
2CultivatedAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentSri Lanka  
6Other    exact native range obscure
Native
Africa
  • NORTHEAST TROPICAL AFRICA: Eritrea, Ethiopia, Sudan, Somalia
  • EAST TROPICAL AFRICA: Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda
  • WEST-CENTRAL TROPICAL AFRICA: Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda
Asia-Temperate
  • ARABIAN PENINSULA: Oman [Al Batinah North], Yemen
Asia-Tropical
  • INDIAN SUBCONTINENT: Bhutan, India, Sri Lanka, Nepal
  • INDO-CHINA: Thailand
Cultivated

  • REGION:
Africa
  • SOUTH TROPICAL AFRICA: Zimbabwe
  • SOUTHERN AFRICA: South Africa
Asia-Tropical
  • INDIAN SUBCONTINENT: India, Sri Lanka
Other (exact native range obscure)
Economic Uses
UsageTypeNoteReference
Environmentalerosion control Hanelt, P., ed. 2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6
Environmentalornamental Dyer, R. A. et al., eds. 1963-. Flora of southern Africa.
Human foodvegetabletubers pickled, as Coleus barbatusValdes, L. G., III et al. 1987. Coleus barbatus (C. forskohlii)(Lamiaceae) and the potential new drug forskolin (Coleonol). Econ. Bot. 41:474-483.
Medicinesfolklore Padua, L. S. de et al., eds. 1999. Medicinal and poisonous plants 1. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA) 12(1):408.
Medicinesfolklore Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs
Medicinesfolklore McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2 American Herbal Products Association, Silver Spring, Maryland.
Medicinesfolkloreas Coleus barbatusValdes, L. G., III et al. 1987. Coleus barbatus (C. forskohlii)(Lamiaceae) and the potential new drug forskolin (Coleonol). Econ. Bot. 41:474-483.
Cite as: USDA, Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System. 2025. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN Taxonomy). National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
URL: https://grip.mawarid.gov.om/gringlobal/taxon/taxonomydetail?id=28829. Accessed 24 April 2025.