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]

Colebrookea
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Lamiales
Family: Lamiaceae
Subfamily: Lamioideae
Genus: Colebrookea
Sm.
Species:
C. oppositifolia
Binomial name
Colebrookea oppositifolia
Synonyms[1]
  • Buchanania Sm. 1806 not Spreng. 1802
  • Sussodia Buch.-Ham. ex D.Don
  • Elsholtzia oppositifolia (Sm.) Poir.
  • Sussodia oppositifolia (Sm.) Buch.-Ham.
  • Buchanania oppositifolia Sm.
  • Colebrookea ternifolia Roxb.

References

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  1. ^ a b Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  2. ^ Flora of China Vol. 17 Page 264 羽萼木 yu e mu Colebrookea oppositifolia Smith, Exot. Bot. 2: 111. 1806.
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ 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.
  5. ^ Khanam, M. & Hassan, M.A. (2008). Lamiaceae. Flora of Bangladesh 58: 1-161. Bangladesh National Herbarium, Dhaka.