Medicinal and aromatic plants – industrial profiles

L. galgalloensis
A.G. Miller
Woody based aromatic perennial with twiggy stems leafy on the lower part, 15–60 cm. Leaves
ovate in outline, pinnatifid. Spike 2–4 cm. Bracts ovate with long spinescent tip, 
c
. 1.25
length of calyx. Calyx with an indumentum of long woolly hairs, the teeth reflexing in fruit.
Corolla lilac. Endemic to northern Somalia growing on limestone escarpments, 1600–1800 m.
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L. aristibracteata
A.G. Miller
(Figure 2.15)
Woody based aromatic perennial with leafy stems to 35 cm. Indumentum of simple and 
sessile glandular hairs. Leaves variable, elliptic, ovate, obovate to triangular in outline, simple or
pinnatifid. Spike 2–5(–8) cm. Bracts often purplish tinged, ovate with a very long spinescent
tip, 1.25–2
length of calyx. Calyx distinctly purple-tinged, with fine short hairs, the teeth
reflexed in fruit. Corolla blue or purplish blue. Endemic to the Surundi Hills in northern
Somalia, 1500–2000 m.
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L. somaliensis
Chaytor
Plant with numerous stems rising from a woody rootstock, leafy, simple or branched to
20–40 cm, with an indumentum of long woolly branched hairs. Leaves ovate to ovate-oblong in
The taxonomy of the genus 
Lavandula 
L.
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Figure 2.15 L. aristibracteata
– cultivated at Cambridge University Botanic Garden. Section Subnudae.
(See Color Plate X.)

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outline and regularly pinnatifid. Spike 1.5–3.5 cm. Bracts ovate to obovate, abruptly tapering to
a sharp tip (acuminate), 0.3–0.75
length of calyx, papery and with characteristic reticulate
veining. Calyx with long woolly branched hairs and many sessile glandular hairs. Corolla blue.
Endemic to the mountains of northern Somalia, 1600–1700 m.