Girma Nigussie,^1,2,* Mekbib Fekadu,^1,3 Cara Steger,⁴ Bikila Warkineh,¹ Sebsebe Demissew<sup>1,5

1</sup>Department of Plant Biology and Biodiversity Management, College of Natural and Computational Sciences, Addis Ababa University, PO Box 3434, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
²Amhara Agricultural Research Institute, Sekota Dry Land Agricultural Research Center, PO Box 62, Sekota, Ethiopia
³Plant Ecology and Geobotany, Faculty of Biology, Philipps University of Marburg, Karl-von-Frisch-Str. 8, 35043 Marburg, Germany
⁴Department of Natural Resources and the Environment, Cornell University, Fernow Hall, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
⁵Gullele Botanic Garden, PO Box f153/1029, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

^*Corresponding author: girma.21@yahoo.com