Colquhounia

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.

Colquhounia
Colquhounia coccinea
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Lamiales
Family: Lamiaceae
Subfamily: Lamioideae
Genus: Colquhounia
Wall.

They are shrubs growing to 1 to 3 metres (3 ft 3 in to 9 ft 10 in) tall, rarely to 4 metres (13 ft). The aromatic leaves are to 3 to 12 centimetres (1.2 to 4.7 in) long and 1 to 6 centimetres (0.39 to 2.36 in), finely toothed and borne in opposite pairs on the square stems. The flowers are tubular, two-lipped, and carried on terminal spikes.

Species include:

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