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Coleus scutellarioides, the Glossary

Coleus scutellarioides, commonly known as coleus, is a species of flowering plant in the family Lamiaceae (the mint or deadnettle family), native to southeast Asia through to Australia.^[1]

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Aeollanthus

Aeollanthus (rocksage) is a genus in the mint family, Lamiaceae.

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Alvesia

Alvesia is a genus of plants in the family Lamiaceae, first described in 1869.

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An annual plant is a plant that completes its life cycle, from germination to the production of seeds, within one growing season, and then dies. Coleus scutellarioides and annual plant are annual plants.

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Anthocyanin

Anthocyanins, also called anthocyans, are water-soluble vacuolar pigments that, depending on their pH, may appear red, purple, blue, or black.

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Award of Garden Merit

The Award of Garden Merit (AGM) is a long-established annual award for plants by the British Royal Horticultural Society (RHS).

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Basil

Basil (Ocimum basilicum), also called great basil, is a culinary herb of the family Lamiaceae (mints).

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Botanical name

A botanical name is a formal scientific name conforming to the International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants (ICN) and, if it concerns a plant cultigen, the additional cultivar or Group epithets must conform to the International Code of Nomenclature for Cultivated Plants (ICNCP).

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Caladium

Caladium is a genus of flowering plants in the family Araceae. Coleus scutellarioides and Caladium are garden plants.

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Capitanopsis

Capitanopsis is a genus of plants in the family Lamiaceae, first described in 1916.

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Carl Linnaeus

Carl Linnaeus (23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné,Blunt (2004), p. 171.

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Chlorophyll

Chlorophyll is any of several related green pigments found in cyanobacteria and in the chloroplasts of algae and plants.

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Circumscription (taxonomy)

In biological taxonomy, circumscription is the content of a taxon, that is, the delimitation of which subordinate taxa are parts of that taxon.

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Common name

In biology, a common name of a taxon or organism (also known as a vernacular name, English name, colloquial name, country name, popular name, or farmer's name) is a name that is based on the normal language of everyday life; and is often contrasted with the scientific name for the same organism, which is often based in Latin.

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Cultivar

A cultivar is a kind of cultivated plant that people have selected for desired traits and which retains those traits when propagated.

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Cutting (plant)

A plant cutting is a piece of a plant that is used in horticulture for vegetative (asexual) propagation.

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Downy mildew

Downy mildew refers to any of several types of oomycete microbes that are obligate parasites of plants.

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Equilabium

Equilabium is a genus of flowering plants in the family Lamiaceae.

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Evergreen

In botany, an evergreen is a plant which has foliage that remains green and functional throughout the year.

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Family (biology)

Family (familia,: familiae) is one of the nine major hierarchical taxonomic ranks in Linnaean taxonomy.

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Flowering plant

Flowering plants are plants that bear flowers and fruits, and form the clade Angiospermae, commonly called angiosperms.

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George Bentham

George Bentham (22 September 1800 – 10 September 1884) was an English botanist, described by the weed botanist Duane Isely as "the premier systematic botanist of the nineteenth century".

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Glossary of leaf morphology

The following terms are used to describe leaf morphology in the description and taxonomy of plants.

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Hardiness zone

A hardiness zone is a geographic area defined as having a certain average annual minimum temperature, a factor relevant to the survival of many plants.

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Houseplant

A houseplant, sometimes known as a pot plant, potted plant, or an indoor plant, is an ornamental plant that is grown indoors. Coleus scutellarioides and houseplant are house plants.

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Impatiens necrotic spot orthotospovirus

Impatiens necrotic spot orthotospovirus (INSV) is a plant pathogenic virus of the order Bunyavirales.

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Inflorescence

An inflorescence, in a flowering plant, is a group or cluster of flowers arranged on a stem that is composed of a main branch or a system of branches.

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Lamiaceae

The Lamiaceae or Labiatae are a family of flowering plants commonly known as the mint, deadnettle, or sage family.

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Lamium

Lamium (dead-nettles) is a genus of about 30 species of flowering plants in the family Lamiaceae, of which it is the type genus. Coleus scutellarioides and Lamium are garden plants.

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Mazatec

The Mazatec are an Indigenous people of Mexico who inhabit the Sierra Mazateca in the state of Oaxaca and some communities in the adjacent states of Puebla and Veracruz.

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Missouri Botanical Garden

The Missouri Botanical Garden is a botanical garden located at 4344 Shaw Boulevard in St. Louis, Missouri.

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Monophyly

In biological cladistics for the classification of organisms, monophyly is the condition of a taxonomic grouping being a clade – that is, a grouping of taxa which meets these criteria.

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Native species

In biogeography, a native species is indigenous to a given region or ecosystem if its presence in that region is the result of only local natural evolution (though often popularised as "with no human intervention") during history.

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Ocimum

Ocimum is a genus of aromatic annual and perennial herbs and shrubs in the family Lamiaceae, native to the tropical and warm temperate regions of all 6 inhabited continents, with the greatest number of species in Africa.

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Ornamental plant

Ornamental plants or garden plants are plants that are primarily grown for their beauty but also for qualities such as scent or how they shape physical space.

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Perennial

In botany, a perennial plant or simply perennial is a plant that lives more than two years.

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Petal

Petals are modified leaves that surround the reproductive parts of flowers.

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Petiole (botany)

In botany, the petiole is the stalk that attaches the leaf blade to the stem.

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Photosynthesis

Photosynthesis is a system of biological processes by which photosynthetic organisms, such as most plants, algae, and cyanobacteria, convert light energy, typically from sunlight, into the chemical energy necessary to fuel their metabolism.

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Phylogenetics

In biology, phylogenetics is the study of the evolutionary history and relationships among or within groups of organisms.

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Plant propagation

Plant propagation is the process by which new plants grow from various sources, including seeds, cuttings, and other plant parts.

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Plectranthus

Plectranthus is a genus of about 85 species of flowering plants from the sage family, Lamiaceae, found mostly in southern and tropical Africa and Madagascar.

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Puerto Rico

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Robert Brown (botanist, born 1773)

Robert Brown (21 December 1773 – 10 June 1858) was a Scottish botanist and paleobotanist who made important contributions to botany largely through his pioneering use of the microscope.

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Royal Horticultural Society

The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS), founded in 1804 as the Horticultural Society of London, is the UK's leading gardening charity.

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Scutellaria

Scutellaria is a genus of flowering plants in the mint family, Lamiaceae.

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Sensu

Sensu is a Latin word meaning "in the sense of".

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Sepal

A sepal is a part of the flower of angiosperms (flowering plants).

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Species

A species (species) is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction.

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Stamen

The stamen (stamina or stamens) is the pollen-producing reproductive organ of a flower.

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Synonym (taxonomy)

The Botanical and Zoological Codes of nomenclature treat the concept of synonymy differently.

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Tetradenia

Tetradenia (gingerbush) is a genus of plants in the family Lamiaceae, first described in 1830.

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Thorncroftia

Thorncroftia (whistlesweets) is a genus of flowering plants in the mint family, Lamiaceae, first described as a genus in 1912.

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Thrips

Thrips (order Thysanoptera) are minute (mostly long or less), slender insects with fringed wings and unique asymmetrical mouthparts.

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Ultraviolet

Ultraviolet (UV) light is electromagnetic radiation of wavelengths of 10–400 nanometers, shorter than that of visible light, but longer than X-rays.

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Urticaceae

The Urticaceae are a family, the nettle family, of flowering plants.

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Variegation

The rare rainforest plant, ''Cryptocarya williwilliana'', showing leaf venation and variegated leaves Variegation is the appearance of differently coloured zones in the leaves and sometimes the stems and fruit of plants.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coleus_scutellarioides

Also known as Coleus blumei, Common coleus, Crimson Ruffles, Painted-nettle, Picturatus, Pineapple Beauty, Pineapplette, Plectranthus scutellarioides, Solenostemon scutellarioides, Wisley Tapestry.

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