Colebrookea

Life-forms

Classification System: APG IV

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Cladus: Angiosperms
Cladus: Eudicots
Cladus: Core eudicots
Cladus: Asterids
Cladus: Lamiids
Ordo: Lamiales

Familia: Lamiaceae
Subfamilia: Lamioideae
Tribus: Pogostemoneae
Genus: Colebrookea
Species: C. oppositifolia
Name

Colebrookea Sm. (1806)
monotypic taxon

Synonyms

Heterotypic
Elsholtzia (Sm.) Poir. in Cuvier, Dict. Sci. Nat., ed. 2, 14: 366 (1819)
Sussodia (Sm.) Buch.-Ham. ex D.Don, Prodr. Fl. Nepal.: 104 (1825)
Buchanania Sm., Exot. Bot. 2: 115 (1806)
Colebrookea Roxb., Pl. Coromandel, 3: 40 (1815)

Distribution
Native distribution areas:

Continental: Asia-Temperate
Regional: Southwestern Asia

References: Brummitt, R.K. 2001. TDWG – World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2nd Edition
References
Primary references

Smith, J.E. 1805–1808. Exotic Botany, vol. 2. R. Taylor and Co, London. 122 pp. gBooks. Reference page. : 2. 111

Additional references

Govaerts, R.H.A. 2003. World Checklist of Selected Plant Families Database in ACCESS: 1-216203. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. [unavailable for the public] Reference page.

Links

Govaerts, R. et al. 2022. Colebrookea in World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2022 Mar 30. Reference page.
Hassler, M. 2022. Colebrookea. World Plants: Synonymic Checklists of the Vascular Plants of the World In: Roskovh, Y., Abucay, L., Orrell, T., Nicolson, D., Bailly, N., Kirk, P., Bourgoin, T., DeWalt, R.E., Decock, W., De Wever, A., Nieukerken, E. van, Zarucchi, J. & Penev, L., eds. 2022. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2022 Mar 30. Reference page.
Tropicos.org 2022. Colebrookea. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2022 Mar 30.
International Plant Names Index. 2022. Colebrookea. Published online. Accessed: Mar 30 2022.

Vernacular names
മലയാളം: കരിഞ്ചെട്ടി
中文: 羽萼木属
Colebrookea is a genus of plants in the family Lamiaceae, first described in 1806. It contains only one known species, Colebrookea oppositifolia, native to India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Assam, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Thailand and Yunnan.[1][2][3][4][5]
References

Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
Flora of China Vol. 17 Page 264 羽萼木 yu e mu Colebrookea oppositifolia Smith, Exot. Bot. 2: 111. 1806.
Rahman, M.O. (2004). Second list of angiospermic taxa of Bangladesh not included in Hooker's 'Flora of British India' and Prain's 'Bengal Plants': series I. Bangladesh Journal of Plant Taxonomy 11: 77-82.
Tanaka, N., Koyama, T. & Murata, J. (2005). The flowering plants of Mt. Popa, central Myanmar - Results of Myanmar-Japanese joint expeditions, 2000-2004. Makinoa 5: 1-102.
Khanam, M. & Hassan, M.A. (2008). Lamiaceae. Flora of Bangladesh 58: 1-161. Bangladesh National Herbarium, Dhaka.