Coleus sp.
Dublin Core
Title
Coleus sp.
Subject
Taxonomy
Phylum : Tracheophyta
Class : Magnoliopsida
Order : Lamiales
Family : Lamiaceae
Genus : Coleus
Common Name
Painted Nettle, Flame Nettle, Common Coleus, Pokok Ati-ati, Pokok Ati-ati merah
Phylum : Tracheophyta
Class : Magnoliopsida
Order : Lamiales
Family : Lamiaceae
Genus : Coleus
Common Name
Painted Nettle, Flame Nettle, Common Coleus, Pokok Ati-ati, Pokok Ati-ati merah
Description
Characteristics
Morphology
Stem
Herbaceous shrub, turns to semi-woody at base when mature. Stems squarish in cross-section. Stems usually purple, puberulent, branched.
Leaves
Leaves of various colours in attractive patterns, with coarsely crenate margins. Leaf blade ovate, 4-12.5 × 2.5-9 cm, membranous, yellow, dark red, purple, or green, puberulent, sparsely red-brown glandular abaxially, base broadly cuneate to rounded, margin crenate-serrate or crenate, apex obtuse to short acuminate.
Flowers
Flowers colours are blue and white.
Plant part used
Leaves
Traditional Uses
Medicinal used
List of Country
China, Taiwan, India, Indochina, Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, northern & western Australia, Solomon Islands
Red List Category
This taxon has not yet been assessed.
It is a subshrub and grows primarily in the wet tropical biome.
Morphology
Stem
Herbaceous shrub, turns to semi-woody at base when mature. Stems squarish in cross-section. Stems usually purple, puberulent, branched.
Leaves
Leaves of various colours in attractive patterns, with coarsely crenate margins. Leaf blade ovate, 4-12.5 × 2.5-9 cm, membranous, yellow, dark red, purple, or green, puberulent, sparsely red-brown glandular abaxially, base broadly cuneate to rounded, margin crenate-serrate or crenate, apex obtuse to short acuminate.
Flowers
Flowers colours are blue and white.
Plant part used
Leaves
Traditional Uses
- Coleus species are widely used in the region of tropical countries such as Vietnam, India and Indonesia as remedies for heart diseases, abdominal colic, respiratory disorders, painful maturation and certain central nervous system diseases.
- In Malaysia. Coleus species are locally known as ‘Ati-ati’ plant and used primarily as decoration houseplant.
- Bajau ethnic used Coleus species to treat cough
Medicinal used
- The use of Coleus species as remedies in Malaysia was unknown.
- It is used to treat unspecified medicinal disorders, has environmental uses and social uses, as a medicine and for food.
- As a member of the mint family, species of Coleus are believed to have a lot of phenolic compounds.
List of Country
China, Taiwan, India, Indochina, Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, northern & western Australia, Solomon Islands
Red List Category
This taxon has not yet been assessed.
Source
- https://globinmed.com/research_publication/the-evaluation-of-total-phenolic-compounds-in-coleus-spp/
- https://globinmed.com/research_publication/determination-of-antioxidant-properties-in-ati-ati-plants-coleus-amboinicus-and-coleus-blumei/
- https://globinmed.com/tk/enthobotany-medicine-copy/
- https://www.gbif.org/species/5341492
- https://www.nparks.gov.sg/florafaunaweb/flora/2/4/2460
- https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:446165-1
Publisher
Amirah Syahmina binti Alwi
Contributor
Amirah Syahmina binti Alwi
Language
English
Collection
Citation
“Coleus sp.,” BIDARA, accessed April 24, 2025, https://bidara.uthm.edu.my/items/show/975.