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Lavandula dentata

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Identification
Lavandula dentata L. [family LABIATAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet, Lavandula dentata L. [family LABIATAE ] Verified by Not on sheet,
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Flora

Entry for LAVANDULA dentata Linn. [family LABIATAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 5, page 332, (1900) Author: (by J. G. Baker)
Names
LAVANDULA dentata Linn. [family LABIATAE], Benth. in DC. Prod. xii. 145. —Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 363.
Information
An erect much-branched undershrub. Stems densely clothed with white tomentum. Leaves sessile, linear, pinnatifid. Panicles oblong, 1–2 in. long, on a long stiffly erect peduncle; lower bracts orbicular-cuneate; upper large, persistent, ovate, membranous, reddish. Calyx pubescent, 1/4 in. long; upper tooth dilated into a cordate-ovate membranous appendage; lower minute, deltoid. Corolla-tube as long as the calyx; limb small.
Range
Cape Verdes and Madeira, through the Mediterranean region to Arabia.
Distribution
Abyssinia Nile Land Begemeder; south side of the mountains near Dendera, 10,000 ft., Schimper, 624!

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