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PYCNOSTACHYS urticifolia Hook. [family LABIATAE]

Date Updated: 19 August 2007

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
PYCNOSTACHYS urticifolia Hook. [family LABIATAE], in Bot. Mag. t. 5365. —Gürke in Engl. Jahrb. xxii. 146.
Information
A much-branched perennial herb, 5–7 ft. high, with pubescent branchlets. Leaves long-petioled, ovate, acute, deeply inciso-crenate, densely pubescent, the lower 3–4 in. long. Spikes very dense, finally 2–3 in. long, 1 1/2 in. diam. exclusive of the corollas. Calyx finally 1/2 in. long; teeth very rigid, three times as long as the tube. Corolla bright blue; lower lip 1/3 in. long. Stamens not longer than the lower lip.
Distribution
Portuguese East Africa Mozamb. Dist. Mountains east of Lake Nyasa, Johnson!Nyasaland Mozamb. Dist. Mount Zomba, cultivated specimen, Livingston! Blantyre, Buchanan, 152! 207! Mbame Hill, 3000 ft., Kirk! Meller! Mount Chiradzulu, 4000 ft., Whyte! and without precise locality, Buchanan, 296! 586!British East Africa Nile Land Ruwenzori, Scott-Elliot, 7719!
Distribution (external)
Natal
Notes
Originally described from a plant raised by Messrs. Backhouse, of York, from seeds given them by Dr. Livingstone from Mount Zomba.

Date Updated: 19 August 2007

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
PYCNOSTACHYS urticifolia Hook. [family LABIATAE], in Bot. Mag. t. 5365. —Gürke in Engl. Jahrb. xxii. 146.
Information
A much-branched perennial herb, 5–7 ft. high, with pubescent branchlets. Leaves long-petioled, ovate, acute, deeply inciso-crenate, densely pubescent, the lower 3–4 in. long. Spikes very dense, finally 2–3 in. long, 1 1/2 in. diam. exclusive of the corollas. Calyx finally 1/2 in. long; teeth very rigid, three times as long as the tube. Corolla bright blue; lower lip 1/3 in. long. Stamens not longer than the lower lip.
Distribution
Portuguese East Africa Mozamb. Dist. Mountains east of Lake Nyasa, Johnson!Nyasaland Mozamb. Dist. Mount Zomba, cultivated specimen, Livingston! Blantyre, Buchanan, 152! 207! Mbame Hill, 3000 ft., Kirk! Meller! Mount Chiradzulu, 4000 ft., Whyte! and without precise locality, Buchanan, 296! 586!British East Africa Nile Land Ruwenzori, Scott-Elliot, 7719!
Distribution (external)
Natal
Notes
Originally described from a plant raised by Messrs. Backhouse, of York, from seeds given them by Dr. Livingstone from Mount Zomba.

Date Updated: 19 August 2007

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
PYCNOSTACHYS urticifolia Hook. [family LABIATAE], in Bot. Mag. t. 5365. —Gürke in Engl. Jahrb. xxii. 146.
Information
A much-branched perennial herb, 5–7 ft. high, with pubescent branchlets. Leaves long-petioled, ovate, acute, deeply inciso-crenate, densely pubescent, the lower 3–4 in. long. Spikes very dense, finally 2–3 in. long, 1 1/2 in. diam. exclusive of the corollas. Calyx finally 1/2 in. long; teeth very rigid, three times as long as the tube. Corolla bright blue; lower lip 1/3 in. long. Stamens not longer than the lower lip.
Distribution
Portuguese East Africa Mozamb. Dist. Mountains east of Lake Nyasa, Johnson!Nyasaland Mozamb. Dist. Mount Zomba, cultivated specimen, Livingston! Blantyre, Buchanan, 152! 207! Mbame Hill, 3000 ft., Kirk! Meller! Mount Chiradzulu, 4000 ft., Whyte! and without precise locality, Buchanan, 296! 586!British East Africa Nile Land Ruwenzori, Scott-Elliot, 7719!
Distribution (external)
Natal
Notes
Originally described from a plant raised by Messrs. Backhouse, of York, from seeds given them by Dr. Livingstone from Mount Zomba.
PYCNOSTACHYS urticifolia Hook. [family LABIATAE]
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