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Coleus formosanus

Coleus formosanus

Coleus formosanus

わが国の八重山群島の与那国島、台湾の緑島および蘭嶼、フィリピンのバタン諸島およびバブヤン島それにマレーシアに分布しています。日当たりの良い海岸断崖の岩場に生え、高さは30〜50センチになります。茎は四角形で、基部は匍匐して根を下ろします。葉は卵形から菱形状卵形で多肉質、縁には鈍鋸歯があり対生します。また葉には白色の短毛が密生します。夏から秋にかけて、枝先に穂状の輪散花序をだし、淡紅紫色の小さな花を咲かせます。花冠は2唇形で、下唇は3裂します。環境省のレットブックでは絶滅危惧IA類(CR)に分類されています。台湾華語では「蘭嶼小鞘蕊花」と呼ばれます。
シソ科コリウス属の常緑多年草で、学名は Coleus formosanus (syn. Coleus scutellarioides)。英名は Lanyu coleus。
The Lanyu coleus (Coleus formosanus) belongs to Lamiaceae (the Mint family). It is an evergreen perennial herb that is found on Yonaguni Island in Japan's Yaeyama Islands, on Green Island and Lanyu in Taiwan, on the Batan Islands and Babuyan Island in the Philippines, and in Malaysia. It grows on rocky outcrops along sunny coastal cliffs and reaches a height of 30 to 50 cm. The stem is square-shaped, and the base creeps along the ground, taking root. The leaves are ovate to rhomboid-ovate, fleshy, and oppositely arranged with blunt serrations along the margins. They are also densely covered with short white hairs. From summer to fall, it produces spike-like whorled inflorescences at the tips of the branches, bearing small pale reddish-purple flowers. The corolla is two-lipped, with the lower lip divided into three lobes. It is classified as Critically Endangered (CR) in the Ministry of the Environment's Red List. In Taiwanese Chinese, it is known as "蘭嶼小鞘蕊花".
茨城県つくば市「つくば実験植物園」にて、2026年03月28日撮影。

Shu Suehiro
shu@botanic.jp