Stachys kurdica

Kara deliçay

Suffrutescent perennial. Flowering stems 18-36 cm, erect, branched above, sparsely pubescent or sometimes glabrous with sparsely glandular hairs. Cauline leaves oblong-lanceolate to lanceolate, 0.6-4.6 x 0.25-0.8 cm, weakly serrate-dentate to subentire, apex acute, subcordate to cuneate at base; petiole 0.2-0.7 cm. Floral leaves similar but smaller, shortly petiolate to subsessile, lower longer than verticillasters, gradually becoming shorter than calyx above. Verticillasters remote, 4-flowered. Bracteoles few, setaceous, c. 2mm. Pedicels 2-3 mm. Calyx ± regular, infundibular, 5.5-7 mm; teeth subequal, broadly triangular to oblong-lanceolate with ± obtuse muticous apex, 1/5-1 x tube. Corolla yellow, 14-15 mm, subexserted. Nutlets 2.5 x 1.5 mm. Fl. 3-7.
 1. Calyx teeth broadly triangular, 1/5-1/4 x tube  var. brevidens
 1. Calyx teeth broadly oblong-lanceolate, as long as or slightly shorter than tube  var. kurdica