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Dicrastylis costelloi (Dicrastylis costelloi)

Description

Greyish hairy shrub to 90 cm high with erect, woody and branching stems covered in dense hairs. Leaves sessile, opposite or in whorls of 3; linear or linear-lanceolate, obtuse, with recurved-revolute margins, to 3 cm long and 6 mm wide; greyish- hairy when young, the older glabrescent and rugose. Inflorescence terminal, spike-like with a few branches near the base of the spike; hairy and with whitish-grey, purplish-violet or purplish-grey flowers. Flowers sporadically.

Taxonomic tree

  • Domain: Eukarya

    • Kingdom: Plantae

      • Phylum:

        • Class: Magnoliopsida

          • Order: Lamiales

            • Family: Lamiaceae

              • Genus: Dicrastylis