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Myosotis abyssinica

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Identification
Myosotis abyssinica Boiss.&Reut. [family BORAGINACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Verdcourt,B.,
Related name
  • Myosotis abyssinica
  • Myosotis aequinoctialis
  • Myosotis stricta
  • Myosotis hispida

Flora

Entry for MYOSOTIS abyssinica Boiss. et Reut. [family BORAGINACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol IV, Part 2, page 5, (1905) Author: (By J. G. Baker, with additions by C. H. Wright.)
Names
MYOSOTIS abyssinica Boiss. et Reut. [family BORAGINACEAE], Diagn. xi. 122. —Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 354.
MYOSOTIS hispida Hochst. ex A. Rich. var. bracteata [family BORAGINACEAE], Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 88; Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 116.
MYOSOTIS stricta Hook. f. [family BORAGINACEAE], in Journ. Linn. Soc. vii. 207, not of Link.
Information
Annual. Stems short, clothed with short spreading bristly hairs. Upper leaves sessile, oblong or oblong-lanceolate; lower obtuse, narrowed to a short petiole. Racemes short, bracteate at the base; lower pedicels shorter than the calyx. Calyx 1 1/2 lin. long; tube campanulate, as long as the lanceolate lobes, clothed with spreading bristly hairs, open in the fruiting stage. Corolla-tube as long as the calyx; limb white, 1 lin. in diam. Nutlets black, shining.
Distribution
Cameroons Upper Guinea Cameroon Mountain, 8000–10,000 ft., Mann, 2033!Abyssinia Nile Land Demerki, Schimper, 1146! Mount Sholoda, near Adowa, Schimper, 1889! Shoa, Petit! Wojerat, Petit! Ankober, Roth, 159 (442)!German East Africa Mozamb. Dist. Kilimanjaro; at the foot of Kifinika Volcano, 8800 ft., Volkens, 1341!Fernando Po Upper Guinea 8000 ft., Mann, 1459!

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