Catalogue no.:	V-640632
Taxon:	Tacca leontopetaloides (L.) Kuntze
Label:	Tacca leontopetaloides
Family:	Taccaceae
Collector:	M.G. Gilbert & M. Thulin
Collector no.:	983
Date:	1975 09 23
Country:	Ethiopia
Province:	Oromiya
Locality:	Shoa REgion: Blue Nile Gorge, S. side
Habitat:	Open bushland with Boswellia and Anogeissus
Remarks:	Voucher for chloroplast DNA rbcL gene, Genbank accession number AJ286561. Reference: K. Bremer, Early Cretaceous lineages of monocot flowering plants. PNAS (USA) 97: 4707-4711 (2000)
Coordinates:	latDD 010.06667; longDD 038.25