Phlomoides thyrsiflora (Benth.) Salmaki

Almasi, Maryam, Salmaki, Yasaman & Xiang, Chun-Lei, 2022, Typification and taxonomic remarks on some names in Phlomoides (Phlomideae: Lamiaceae), Phytotaxa 570 (1), pp. 87-94 : 92

Phlomoides thyrsiflora (Benth.) Salmaki

= Phlomoides kermanica Ranjbar & C. Mahmoudi, Webbia 70: 239. 2015, syn. nov.

Other specimens seen: — Afghanistan: Helmand Stausee Kajakai (y) Berghange, 1 April 1972, Anders 8335 (W!, G!, M!); Kandahar Dasht beim Flughafen 1000 m, 21 April 1972, Anders 8686 (W!, M!); Kandahar, 29 April 1950, Wurzburg 16370 (W!); Steppe Zwischen Kalat-i Ghilsai and Kandahar, Rechinger 16383 (W!); Tirin, Rechinger 09297 (W!); Tirin, 42 km S Tirin 1800 m, 23 May 1967, Rechinger 35063 (W!); Orozgan 2000–2200 m, 24 May 1967, Rechinger 35203 (W!, E!, G!, K!); Kandahar versus Kalat-i Ghilzai 1300 m, Rechinger 33567 (E!, G!, K!); Tirin, Rechinger 35063 (G!); Kandahar bei Nurmohammadkhan 24 km W Kandahar, 22 April 1977, Podlech & Jarmal 28869 (G!, M!); Griffith 4034 (LE!), Paktia Umgebung, 30.5.1971, Podlech 71/231 ( M!); Kandahar Lashkargah 900 m, 17 April 1978, Podlech 30735 ( M!); Helmand Kajaki, Freitag & Breokle 4601 ( M!). Pakistan: Quetta inter Qila Abdullah, 1600–1900 m, 8 May 1965, Rechinger 28998 (G!, W!, M!); Quetta inter Bostan 1600 m, 10 May 1965, Rechinger 24140 (W!) Beloutchistan environs de Quetta, F. Schmid 1560 (G!); Baluchistan, Zaffar 4899 (K!).

Note: —Although Phlomoides thyrsiflora (formerly known as Eremostachys thyrsiflora ) has been reported in Iran from Kerman Province by Jamzad (2012), Ranjbar and Mahmoudi ignored this record and described Phlomoides kermanica as a new species based on the samples collected from the same locality. They mentioned that P. kermanica is similar to P. thyrsiflora in habit, stem branching, calyx and bract shape, but it is different mainly because of the smaller size of the plants, leaves, inflorescences as well as calyx, bracts and corolla. In addition, the basal leaves of P. kermanica should be pinnatisect or pinnatipartite against shallowly dentate with few unequal teeth to subentire in P. thyrsiflora ( Ranjbar & Mahmoudi 2015) . However, P. kermanica falls in the same morphological variation as we observed in several specimens from Afghanistan and Pakistan as the main centers of the diversity of P. thyrsiflora . Thus, here we propose P. kermanica described by Ranjbar & Mahmoudi (2015) as a new synonym of P. thyrsiflora .