Coleus bojeri Benth.
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Coleus bojeri

Family: LAMIACEAE
Genus: Coleus
Species: bojeri Benth.
Distribution summary: Tropical Africa, Southern Africa
Habit: Sub-Shrub
Hardiness: H1c - Heated greenhouse; warm temperate
Habitat: open rocky areas, grassland, open woodland disturbed places
Garden status: Currently grown
Garden location: Plants in pots (POT)
Reason for growing: Medicinal

Additional Notes

Previously grown as Plectranthus bojeri

Plants of the World online, Kew Science http://www.plantsoftheworldonline.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:445923-1 Link

In traditional medicine there is widespread use across Africa: The plant is used to treat snakebites. A decoction of the whole plant, combined with Ocimum gratissimum, is drunk as a treatment for pneumonia. Children are bathed in a decoction of the whole plant in order to reduce fevers. The finely ground leaves are used for the treatment of conjunctivitis. They are applied as a dressing on wounds and abscesses[Lukhoba CW; Simmonds MSJ; Paton AJ. (2006) Plectranthus: A review of ethnobotanical uses. Journal of Ethnopharmacology 103 1-24.

Useful Tropical Plants 2020 https://tropical.theferns.info/viewtropical.php?id=Plectranthus+bojeri

Africa, South Tropical Africa, Zimbabwe

Africa, South Tropical Africa, Zambia

Africa, South Tropical Africa, Malawi

Africa, South Tropical Africa, Mozambique

Africa, Southern Africa, KwaZulu-Natal

Africa, Southern Africa, Cape Provinces

Africa, Southern Africa, Northern Provinces

Africa, Southern Africa, Swaziland

Africa, West-Central Tropical Africa, Rwanda

Africa, West-Central Tropical Africa, Congo

Africa, West-Central Tropical Africa, Cameroon

Africa, West-Central Tropical Africa, Burundi

Africa, West-Central Tropical Africa, Zaire

Africa, West Tropical Africa, Benin

Africa, West Tropical Africa, Ivory Coast

Africa, West Tropical Africa, Senegal

Africa, West Tropical Africa, Togo

Africa, West Tropical Africa, Sierra Leone

Africa, West Tropical Africa, Guinea

Africa, West Tropical Africa, Ghana

Africa, West Tropical Africa, Mali

Africa, Western Indian Ocean, Madagascar

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