The Museum of Evolution Herbarium (UPS)

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Catalogue no.: V-807175
Taxon: Pycnostachys abyssinica Fresen.
Label: Pycnostachys abyssinica
Family: Lamiaceae
Collector: C. J. P. Seegeler
Collector no.: 2935
Date: 1972 11 23
Country: Ethiopia
Province: Oromiya
Locality: Harerge, close to Deder Hospital
Habitat: In fence around field
Attributes: Open shrubby herb to 2-2½ m high. Stem greenish-brown when old, brownish-green to pale green when young, hairs white. Leaves medium green, beneath paler than above. Leaves just below the inflorescence pale green. Calyx pale green with purple lobes. Corolla pale gentian blue except the upper lip inside which is whitish. Directly after cutting the plant is spreading an unpleasant odour
Coordinates: latDD 09.31667; longDD 041.43333