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Medicinal

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

Nomenclature

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

Geographical distribution

  • Africa, South Tropical Africa, Malawi
  • Africa, South Tropical Africa, Mozambique
  • Africa, South Tropical Africa, Zambia
  • Africa, South Tropical Africa, Zimbabwe
  • Africa, Southern Africa, Cape Provinces
  • Africa, Southern Africa, KwaZulu-Natal
  • Africa, Southern Africa, Northern Provinces
  • Africa, Southern Africa, Swaziland
  • Africa, West Tropical Africa, Benin
  • Africa, West Tropical Africa, Ghana
  • Africa, West Tropical Africa, Guinea
  • Africa, West Tropical Africa, Ivory Coast
  • Africa, West Tropical Africa, Mali
  • Africa, West Tropical Africa, Senegal
  • Africa, West Tropical Africa, Sierra Leone
  • Africa, West Tropical Africa, Togo
  • Africa, West-Central Tropical Africa, Burundi
  • Africa, West-Central Tropical Africa, Cameroon
  • Africa, West-Central Tropical Africa, Congo
  • Africa, West-Central Tropical Africa, Rwanda
  • Africa, West-Central Tropical Africa, Zaire
  • Africa, Western Indian Ocean, Madagascar

Coleus bojeri Benth.

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


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