Stachys atherocalyx K.Koch

Akçiçek, Ekrem, 2020, Taxonomic revision of Stachys sect. Olisia (Lamiaceae: Lamioideae) in Turkey, Phytotaxa 449 (2), pp. 109-148 : 129

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

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Stachys atherocalyx K.Koch
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4. Stachys atherocalyx K.Koch View in CoL in Linnaea 21: 691 (1849) ( Figs. 1B View FIGURE 1 , 4, 8 View FIGURE 8 )

S. recta subsp. atherocalyx (K.Koch) Stoj. & Stef., Fl. Bulgar. , ed. 3: 967 (1948) = S. linearifolia K.Koch, Linnaea View in CoL 21: 692 (1849) = S. sideritidoides K.Koch, Linnaea View in CoL 21: 692 (1849), nom. illeg. = S. recta var. sideritidoides Boiss., Fl. Orient. View in CoL 4: 730 (1879) = S. acanthodonta Klokov, Fl. RSS Ukr. 9: 648 (1960)

Syntypes:― [Caucasia] in Kaukasus, in Transkaukasien und im Tschorukgebiete [ Turkey, A8 Çoruh] sehr häufig, und zwar auf alien Bodenarten, von 500–5500 hech. [1500‒1676 m], K.Koch s.n. [Not traced]

Description:―Suffrutescent, perennial herbs, without basal rosettes of leaves. Flowering stems erect to decumbent, simple or branched, long, 30‒85 cm, sparsely adpressed hirsute. Lower and median cauline leaves oblong-lanceolate to lanceolate; 3.5‒10 × 0.3‒2 cm, serrate to subentire at margin, acute at apex, spinescent (spine 0.5‒1 mm), attenuate at base, sparsely adpressed hirsute; upper ones usually sublinear, sessile. Floral leaves oblong-lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, upper ones ovate-lanceolate, 0.5‒4 × 0.3‒1 cm, lower exceeding the verticillasters, upper ones as long as or slightly longer than verticillasters, subentire to entire at margin, spinescent (spine 1‒1.5 mm), sessile. Verticillasters 4‒20, usually congested-spicate, the lowermost remote, (4‒)6‒8-flowered. Bracteoles few, linear to setaceous, 1.5‒5 mm. Pedicels 0.7‒1 mm. Calyx subbilabiate, tubular to subcampanulate, 8‒12 mm, hirsute, mouth without ring of hairs; teeth subequal, erect to subpatent, lanceolate-subulate, not more than 1 mm wide, 4‒6 × 0.5‒1 mm, as long as tube or more, spinescent-tipped (spine 1‒2 mm). Corolla white, streaked and spotted with purple inside, 12‒18 mm, tube exserted, annulate; limb bilabiate, upper lip 5‒8 mm, entire to emarginate, hirsute on outer surface, lower lip 3‒lobed, middle lobe largest and emarginate, 6‒9 mm. Stamens 4, exserted more than half-way along upper corolla lip. Nutlets broadly obovoid, faintly trigonous, slightly winged near base, 2‒2.5 × 1.7‒2 mm, minutely reticulate-foveate, blackish-brown.

Phenology: ―Flowering between May and August.

Distribution and ecology: ―North Balkan Peninsula, Romania, Crimea, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia, north & northwest Iran, Turkey (northeast & east Anatolia). Euro-Siberian (Sarmatian) element. Roadside banks, Artemisia meadows, fallow fields, rocky slopes, stony ground, 850‒2500 m elevation.

Conservation status: ―LC ( IUCN 2017). It is widely distributed in north-eastern and eastern Anatolia, and adjacent countries.

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Lamiales

Family

Lamiaceae

Genus

Stachys

Loc

Stachys atherocalyx K.Koch

Akçiçek, Ekrem 2020
2020
Loc

S. recta var. sideritidoides

Boiss., Fl. Orient. 1879: 730
1879
Loc

Stachys atherocalyx K.Koch

K. Koch 1849: 691
1849
Loc

S. linearifolia K.Koch, Linnaea

K. Koch 1849: 692
1849
Loc

S. sideritidoides K.Koch, Linnaea

K. Koch 1849: 692
1849
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