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Colquhounia

Genus of flowering plants

Summary

Genus of flowering plants

Colquhounia is a genus of about six species of evergreen or semi-evergreen shrubs or subshrubs in the family Lamiaceae, first described in 1822. They are native to the Himalaya and southwestern China south to Peninsular Malaysia.

They are shrubs growing to 1 to tall, rarely to 4 m. The aromatic leaves are to 3 to long and 1 to, finely toothed and borne in opposite pairs on the square stems. The flowers are tubular, two-lipped, and carried on terminal spikes.

Species include:

Colquhounia coccinea Wall. - Tibet, Yunnan, Bhutan, Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand
Colquhounia compta W.W.Sm. - Sichuan, Yunnan
Colquhounia elegans Wall. - Yunnan, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia
Colquhounia seguinii Vaniot - Guangxi, Guizhou, Hubei, Sichuan, Yunnan, Myanmar
Colquhounia vestita Wall. - Yunnan, Assam, Bhutan, Nepal, Himalayas of northern + eastern India

References

[http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=46335 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families]
[http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=107716 ''Colquhounia''.] Flora of China.

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