Sideritis libanotica
Sideritis libanotica
Ssp kurdica: İnceçay; Ssp libanotica: Gevreğen; Ssp linearis: Torosçayı; Ssp microchlamys: Zühreçayı; Ssp violascens: Topuklu çay
Perennial, 20-100 cm, simple or branched, adpressed white-tomentose, eglandular, or greenish, glabrescent, often with microglands. Cauline leaves 4-8- paired, internodes 3-10 cm, middle linear to lanceolate, 1-8 x 0.3-2 cm, mucronate, acute or acuminate, finely serrate-denticulate or entire. Verticillasters 2-15, 6-flowered, 2-9 cm distant. Middle bracts oblong-lanceolate to orbicular and reniform, 6-20 x 2-13 mm, mucronate or acuminate. Calyx 5.5-9 mm, ± densely hairy, sometimes with interspersed glands, teeth 1.5-3.5 mm, with hairy or glabrous tip. Corolla yellow or purple-violet, 10-13 mm, hairy and with brown striae inside. Fl. 5-9.
1. Flowers purple-violet ....................................................................subsp. violascens
1. Flowers yellow
2. Bracts oblong-lanceolate to ovate, 6-12 x 2-4.5 mm .............subsp. microchlamys
2. Bracts ovate-cordate to orbicular and reniform, 8-20 x 7-13 mm
3. Plant 60-100 cm; middle cauline leaves lanceolate, 4-8 x 0.8- 1.5 cm; bracts with 1-5 mm mucro ..subsp. kurdica
3. Plant 20-60 cm; middle cauline leaves linear to linear-lanceolate, 1-4 x 0.3-1 cm; bracts mucronate or acuminate, acumen 2-8 mm
4. Calyx teeth 1.5-2.5 mm, triangular-lanceolate, mostly with glabrous tip ........subsp. libanotica
4. Calyx teeth 2.5-3.5 mm, lanceolate, with hairy tip ........................subsp. linearis
