''Colquhounia'' is a

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of about six species of

evergreen In botany, an evergreen is a plant which has foliage that remains green and functional through more than one growing season. This also pertains to plants that retain their foliage only in warm climates, and contrasts with deciduous plants, which ...

or semi-evergreen

shrub A shrub (often also called a bush) is a small-to-medium-sized perennial woody plant. Unlike herbaceous plants, shrubs have persistent woody stems above the ground. Shrubs can be either deciduous or evergreen. They are distinguished from trees ...

s or

subshrub A subshrub (Latin ''suffrutex'') or dwarf shrub is a short shrub, and is a woody plant. Prostrate shrub is a related term. "Subshrub" is often used interchangeably with "bush".Jackson, Benjamin, Daydon; A Glossary of Botanic Terms with their Der ...

s in the family

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, first described in 1822. They are native to the

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and southwestern

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south to

Peninsular Malaysia Peninsular Malaysia ( ms, Semenanjung Malaysia; Jawi: سمننجڠ مليسيا), or the States of Malaya ( ms, Negeri-negeri Tanah Melayu; Jawi: نڬري-نڬري تانه ملايو), also known as West Malaysia or the Malaysian Peninsula, ...

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Flora of China. They are shrubs growing to tall, rarely to . The aromatic

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are to long and , finely toothed and borne in opposite pairs on the square stems. The

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s are tubular, two-lipped, and carried on terminal spikes. Species include: # '' Colquhounia coccinea'' Wall. - Tibet, Yunnan, Bhutan, Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand # ''

Colquhounia compta ''Colquhounia'' is a genus of about six species of evergreen or semi-evergreen shrubs or subshrubs in the family Lamiaceae, first described in 1822. They are native to the Himalaya and southwestern China south to Peninsular Malaysia.

'' W.W.Sm. - Sichuan, Yunnan # ''

Colquhounia elegans ''Colquhounia elegans'' () is a shrub species in the genus ''Colquhounia'' found in Asia (Yunnan, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam). ;Varieties #''Colquhounia elegans'' var. ''elegans'' - Yunnan, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Viet ...

'' Wall. - Yunnan, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia # ''

Colquhounia seguinii ''Colquhounia'' is a genus of about six species of evergreen or semi-evergreen shrubs or subshrubs in the family Lamiaceae, first described in 1822. They are native to the Himalaya and southwestern China south to Peninsular Malaysia.

'' Vaniot - Guangxi, Guizhou, Hubei, Sichuan, Yunnan, Myanmar # '' Colquhounia vestita'' Wall. - Yunnan, Assam, Bhutan, Nepal, Himalayas of northern + eastern India

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