Phlomoides iliensis (Regel) Adylov et al. (1987: 98)

Zhao, Yue, Lazkov, Georgii A., Turginov, Orzimat T., Salmaki, Yasaman, Zhou, Xin- Xin, Li, Wen-Jun & Xiang, Chun-Lei, 2024, Updated Taxonomy of Chinese Phlomoides: description of three newly recorded species and their systematic placement, Phytotaxa 670 (4), pp. 259-272 : 263-265

Phlomoides iliensis (Regel) Adylov et al. (1987: 98)

≡ Eremostachys iliensis Regel (1879: 375) .

Type:— KAZAKHSTAN. In montibus fluvium ili adjucentibus prope Borochudsir (Fetisow), prope Kuiankas, 3000 ft., A. Regel (lectotype LE!; isolectotypes LE!, P barcode P00686203 [image!]; designated by Salmaki et al. 2022) .

Description: —Herbs perennial. Roots rather slender, woody fibrous; root collar softly tomentose. Stems erect or slightly curved, 0.5–1 m tall; green-white, covered with tomentose and sparse glandular hairs. Basal leaves numerous, with petioles 4–6 cm long, petioles covered with stellate hairs, hairs 2–4 mm long; blade pinnatipartite, the segments lanceolate or linear, irregularly and sharply pinnatifid, rarely simple, 5–17 × 4–10 cm, adaxially green, with sparse simple trichomes, abaxially light green, densely with pilose hairs; stem leaves resembling the basal leaves, less deeply dissected, with short-petioled or sessile. Verticillasters 6–10 flowered, very distant; floral leaves sessile, oblong or ovate, pinnately lobed, unevenly toothed or unevenly crenate, 1–5 × 0.5–2 cm; bracts linear, 3–5 mm long, one-third to half the length of calyx, covered with simple and glandular hairs. Calyx tubular-campanulate, 13–15 mm long, white-tomentose, teeth 5, truncate, ca. 1 mm long, apical spines 1–1.5 mm long. Corolla white, often with purple pattern on lower lip, 2.6–2.8 cm long, 2-lipped; posterior lip 1–1.3 cm long, hooded, often deeply concave, densely hairy outside, densely bearded at margin inside, as long as or slightly shorter than the anterior lip; anterior lip 3-lobed, ca. 1.2 × 1 cm, pubescent outside only at the middle, the middle lobe broadly elliptic, the lateral lobes broadly ovate, equaling the middle lobe; tube glabrous, 1.2–1.3 cm long. Stamens 4, with short briefly fimbriate appendages, the posterior filaments near glabrous or with less fimbriate; ring of hairs in tube under the appendages. Mericarps long-haired at apex.

Phenology: —Flowering from April to May, fruiting from June to July.

Distribution, habitat and ecology: — China and Kazakhstan; new record for China, occurring in Yumin County, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. It grows on arid stony desert, 700– 900 m.

Chinese name (assigned here):—伊şöfi (yī lí shā suì).

Additional specimen examined:— CHINA. Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region: Tacheng Prefecture , Yumin County, G219 , 45°45′49.2″ N, 82°21′40.1″ E, elev. 782 m, 21 May 2023, Y. Zhao & J. F. Xiao XCL2328 ( KIB!) ; Tacheng Prefecture, Yumin County, Near Tusti border Station , 45°56′34.5″ N, 82°29′45.6″ E, elev. 885 m, 21 May 2023, Y. Zhao & J. F. Xiao XCL2333 ( KIB!) ; Tacheng Prefecture, Yumin County, Near 204 border Station , 25 May 1992, G. J. Liu 925051 ( XJBI00036830 !) .