Ziziphora clinopodioides subsp. filicaulis (Rechinger) Rechinger (1982: 486) . (Fig. 8).

≡ Ziziphora filicaulis Rechinger (1951: 167) .

Type: — IRAN. Shahrud-Bustam. In saxosis et glareosis calc. declivium australium Shahvar, 3500‒3900 m, 25 July 1948, Rechinger 6014! ( holotype W19560006986!, isotypes B100241841!, BM000950423!, G00402138!, G00402139!, K000247829!, S-G-6502-photo!, US 00121718-photo!).

Suffruticose-caespitose, with sterile filamentous shoots creeping between fragments of stones, with slender slanted or ascending flowering stems, 2‒4 cm, green to purplish, glabrescent to short hairy. Leaves 3‒7 × 2‒4 mm long, broadly ovate to ovate-orbicular, glabrous or sparsely papillose-hirsute, sparsely to minutely glandular-dotted. Capitula globose. Calyx ± 5 mm long, mostly purple, densely long whitish hairy.

Habitat:— Steppes, metamorphic and calcareous rocks; elev.. 2200 m; fl. & fr. May to August.

Distribution: —Eastern Turkey, Iran.

This subspecies which is a new record for Turkey is easily distinguished from the other subspecies distributed in Turkey mentioned here, in its dense and long white hairs on the calyx (Fig. 8).

Examined Specimens: — TURKEY. Van: Özalp, 2200 m, 27 May 1966, J . Eiselt s.n. (W19660021341) .