Plectranthus

Accepted species 83 Documented here 16 Family Lamiaceae

Accepted species 83 in this genus

Every accepted species in the genus is listed. A name links to its page when we hold at least three commercially licensed photographs of it. Where we do not, the row shows how many we actually found, which is usually none.

SpeciesAuthority Usable photographsPage
Plectranthus fruticosus L'Hér. 277 documented
Plectranthus ciliatus E.Mey. 152 documented
Plectranthus ecklonii Benth. 121 documented
Plectranthus verticillatus (L.f.) Druce 79 documented
Plectranthus grallatus Briq. 55 documented
Plectranthus zuluensis T.Cooke 18 documented
Plectranthus saccatus Benth. 13 documented
Plectranthus strigosus Benth. ex E.Mey. 9 documented
Plectranthus purpuratus Harv. 8 documented
Plectranthus rubropunctatus Codd 8 documented
Plectranthus ambiguus (Bolus) Codd 6 documented
Plectranthus malvinus van Jaarsv. & T.J.Edwards 6 documented
Plectranthus lucidus (Benth.) van Jaarsv. & T.J.Edwards 5 documented
Plectranthus swynnertonii S.Moore 4 documented
Plectranthus elegantulus Briq. 3 documented
Plectranthus vestitus Benth. 3 documented
Plectranthus humbertii Hedge 3 below the evidence gate
Plectranthus alboviolaceus Gürke 0 below the evidence gate
Plectranthus amplexicaulis Hedge 0 below the evidence gate
Plectranthus antongilicus Hedge 0 below the evidence gate
Plectranthus asymmetricus A.J.Paton 0 below the evidence gate
Plectranthus atroviolaceus Hedge 0 below the evidence gate
Plectranthus aulihanensis (Schweinf. & Volkens) ined. 0 below the evidence gate
Plectranthus betamponus Hedge 0 below the evidence gate
Plectranthus bracteolatus A.J.Paton 0 below the evidence gate
Plectranthus brevicaulis (Baker) Hedge 0 below the evidence gate
Plectranthus brevimentum T.J.Edwards 0 below the evidence gate
Plectranthus canescens Benth. 0 below the evidence gate
Plectranthus capuronii Hedge 0 below the evidence gate
Plectranthus chimanimanensis S.Moore 0 below the evidence gate
Plectranthus clementiae Hedge 0 below the evidence gate
Plectranthus cordatus A.J.Paton & Phillipson 0 below the evidence gate
Plectranthus decaryi Hedge 0 below the evidence gate
Plectranthus delicatissimus Hedge 0 below the evidence gate
Plectranthus elegans Britten 0 below the evidence gate
Plectranthus ellipticus Hedge 0 below the evidence gate
Plectranthus emirnensis (Baker) Hedge 0 below the evidence gate
Plectranthus ernstii Codd 0 below the evidence gate
Plectranthus forsythii Hedge 0 below the evidence gate
Plectranthus gardneri Thwaites 0 below the evidence gate
Plectranthus gibbosus Hedge 0 below the evidence gate
Plectranthus godefroyae (N.E.Br.) ined. 0 below the evidence gate
Plectranthus grandibracteatus Hedge 0 below the evidence gate
Plectranthus guruensis A.J.Paton 0 below the evidence gate
Plectranthus hexaphyllus Baker 0 below the evidence gate
Plectranthus hilliardiae Codd 0 below the evidence gate
Plectranthus hirsutus Hedge 0 below the evidence gate
Plectranthus hoslundioides Scott Elliot 0 below the evidence gate
Plectranthus incrassatus Hedge 0 below the evidence gate
Plectranthus laurifolius Hedge 0 below the evidence gate
Plectranthus linearis Hedge 0 below the evidence gate
Plectranthus longiflorus Benth. 0 below the evidence gate
Plectranthus longipetiolatus Hedge 0 below the evidence gate
Plectranthus macilentus Hedge 0 below the evidence gate
Plectranthus mandalensis Baker 0 below the evidence gate
Plectranthus marquesii Gürke 0 below the evidence gate
Plectranthus mechowianus (Briq.) ined. 0 below the evidence gate
Plectranthus membranaceus (Scott Elliot) Hedge 0 below the evidence gate
Plectranthus miserabilis Briq. 0 below the evidence gate
Plectranthus mocquerysii Briq. 0 below the evidence gate
Plectranthus mzimvubuensis van Jaarsv. 0 below the evidence gate
Plectranthus oblanceolatus Hedge 0 below the evidence gate
Plectranthus oertendahlii T.C.E.Fr. 0 below the evidence gate
Plectranthus ombrophilus Hedge 0 below the evidence gate
Plectranthus oribiensis Codd 0 below the evidence gate
Plectranthus papilionaceus Ranir. & Phillipson 0 below the evidence gate
Plectranthus pichompae Hedge 0 below the evidence gate
Plectranthus poggeanus (Briq.) ined. 0 below the evidence gate
Plectranthus praetermissus Codd 0 below the evidence gate
Plectranthus preussii (Gürke) ined. 0 below the evidence gate
Plectranthus reflexus van Jaarsv. & T.J.Edwards 0 below the evidence gate
Plectranthus rosulatus Hedge 0 below the evidence gate
Plectranthus rubroviolaceus Hedge 0 below the evidence gate
Plectranthus scaposus Hedge 0 below the evidence gate
Plectranthus schweinfurthii Sprenger 0 below the evidence gate
Plectranthus secundiflorus (Baker) Hedge 0 below the evidence gate
Plectranthus strangulatus A.J.Paton 0 below the evidence gate
Plectranthus stylesii T.J.Edwards 0 below the evidence gate
Plectranthus termiticola A.J.Paton 0 below the evidence gate
Plectranthus trilobus Hedge 0 below the evidence gate
Plectranthus vinaceus Hedge 0 below the evidence gate
Plectranthus viridis (Briq.) ined. 0 below the evidence gate
Plectranthus zenkeri Gürke 0 below the evidence gate

Why some species have no pagethe gate

This site is commercial, so it can only publish photographs licensed for commercial use. Roughly three quarters of the photographs on iNaturalist are CC BY-NC, which excludes them. A species needs at least three usable photographs before we will build it a page, because a page with one picture and no traits tells you nothing you could not get from a search result, and generating hundreds of thousands of those is precisely the practice that got the previous version of this site deleted.

So the species above without a link are not errors and they are not omissions. They are real, accepted plants that we cannot yet document to the standard we hold ourselves to, and the count in the photographs column is exactly how far short we fall.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. Accepted names, authorities, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. Photograph counts, restricted to CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA. Retrieved 2026-06-27.