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Otostegia integrifolia

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Name

Identification
Otostegia integrifolia Benth. [family LAMIACEAE ] (stored under name);
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Flora

Entry for OTOSTEGIA integrifolia Benth. [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
OTOSTEGIA integrifolia Benth. [family LABIATAE], in DC. Prod. xii. 522. —A Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 197; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 369.
Moluccella integrifolia R. Br. [family LABIATAE], in Salt, Abyss. Append. 64.
Information
A much-branched shrub, with slender woody branches, clothed with fine white tomentum; nodes bearing a couple of large spreading spines from each side. Leaves nearly sessile, lanceolate, entire, 1–2 in. long, cuneate at the base, clothed on both sides with white tomentum. Whorls few or many, 5–6-flowered; bracts rigid, tricuspidate. Calyx sessile; tube 1/4 in. long, densely pubescent, with 10 raised ribs; upper lip small, oblong, pointed, entire; lower orbicular-cuneate, 3/4 in. broad, faintly crenate. Corolla reaching to the tip of the lower lip.
Distribution
Eritrea Nile Land Arrot Valley, 4200 ft., Schweinfurth & Riva, 675! environs of Acrur, 6100 ft., Schweinfurth & Riva, 1134!Abyssinia Nile Land Tigre; hills near Dungera Go, in the Memsach district, Schimper, 228! Samen; Ataba, Steudner, 1381! Shire Province, Petit! and without precise locality, Schimper, 789! 1850! Quartin-Dillon & Petit, 11!

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