Stachys aleurites Boiss. & Heldr.

Akçiçek, Ekrem, 2020, Taxonomic revision of Stachys sect. Olisia (Lamiaceae: Lamioideae) in Turkey, Phytotaxa 449 (2), pp. 109-148 : 116

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/phytotaxa.449.2.2

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scientific name

Stachys aleurites Boiss. & Heldr.
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1. Stachys aleurites Boiss. & Heldr. View in CoL in Boiss., Diagn. Pl. Orient. 12: 79 (1853) ( Figs. 1F View FIGURE 1 , 14, 18 View FIGURE 18 ).

= S. tengwalliana Rech.f., Öesterr. Bot. Z. View in CoL 99: 46 (1952)

Type:― TURKEY. C3 Antalya: in rupibus maritimis Pamphyliae ad Adalia, [5 May 1845,] Heldreich s.n. (holo: G!; iso: BM!, E!, K!) .

Description:―Suffrutescent perennial herbs. Flowering stems erect, 40‒70 cm, simple or branched, thinly arachnoid-canescent, ± glabrescent with age. Lower cauline leaves ovate to ovate-lanceolate, 1.2‒4.5 × 1‒2 cm, crenate-serrate at margin, subcordate to rounded at base, mucronulate at tip, arachnoid-canescent, petiole 1‒3.5 cm, gradually passing into shorter subsessile to sessile, lanceolate, subentire, median cauline and floral leaves. Floral leaves as long as or longer than verticillasters, ± patent, 0.8‒3 cm, mucronate at tip. Verticillasters 2‒6, usually remote below, 1‒7.5 cm distant, uppermost 1‒2, ± approximate, rarely all remote, 6‒12(‒20)-flowered. Bracteoles herbaceous, lanceolate, numerous, 5‒15 mm, as long as or longer than calyx, mucronate at tip. Pedicels short, 0.2‒0.5 mm. Calyx subbilabiate, tubular to subcampanulate, 8‒12 mm, adpressed arachnoid-canescent; teeth subequal, lanceolate-subulate, recurved in fruit, about as long as tube, 2.5‒4(–5) mm, mucronate at tip, mucro 0.5‒1.5 mm. Corolla white with purple to pink streaks and spots inside, 12‒14 mm, tube subexserted, annulate; limb bilabiate, adpressed hairy outside, upper lip ca. 4 mm, slightly shorter than the lower, emarginate, lower lip 3-lobed, middle lobe largest, 5‒6 mm. Stamens 4, exserted more than half-way along upper corolla lip. Nutlets obovoid, faintly trigonous, slightly winged near base, ca. 2 × 1.2‒1.5 mm, minutely reticulate, blackish-brown.

Phenology: ―Flowering between April and July.

Distribution and ecology: ―Endemic to Turkey. East Mediterranean element. Calcareous rocks near the coast, crevices of sloping rocks, 10–1275 m elevation.

Conservation status: ―NT ( IUCN 2017). The conservation status of this species is regarded as nearly threatened by human activities (tourism) and urbanisation.

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Lamiales

Family

Lamiaceae

Genus

Stachys

Loc

Stachys aleurites Boiss. & Heldr.

Akçiçek, Ekrem 2020
2020
Loc

S. tengwalliana Rech.f., Öesterr. Bot. Z.

Rech. f., Oesterr. Bot. Z. 1952: 46
1952
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