Lamium bilgilii
Lamium bilgilii
Bilgili ballıbabası
Perennial with a woody rootstock. Stems ascending-erect, 6–40 cm, very densely eglandular long white villous, with short glandular hairs. Leaves ovate to reniform, 5–45 × 5–45 mm, white villous with short glandular hairs, margincrenate, apex rotund, base cordate, petiole 15–50 mm long, eglandular long white villous with short glandular hairs. Inflorescence indumentum like in the stem. Verticillasters 1–3, each 2–8-flowered. Bracts ovate to reniform, similar to stem leaves. Bracteole linear, 5–11 mm long, eglandular white villous with short glandular hairs. Calyx green, campanulate with oblique mouth, 12–17 mm long, up to 19 mm in fruit, scarcely expanding in fruit, eglandular villous with short or long glandular hairs, particularly on the teeth, tube 7–11 mm long, teeth widely triangular, 5–7 mm long, teeth shorter than tube. Corolla whitish, pinkish-purple, purple striate tube and a large purple blotch on lower lip, 40–52 mm long, tube 27–33 mm long; upper lip 12–17 mm long, shortly bifid and densely long eglandular villous, lower lip 8–12 mm long, lateral lobes very small, corolla tube humped, largely ventricose, curved-slightly, sigmoid, corolla tube entrance 10–15 mm wide, a few long villous hairs inside the tube base. Style sigmoid, 32–46 mm long, stigma placed under the upper lip of corolla, bifid with equal branches. Stamens 4, hairy. Pollen grains yellow-orange. Mericarps triangular-obovate, 3.0–5.0 × 1.3–2.6 mm long, brownish, spots whitish, smooth with pentagular-colliculate and reticulate texture.
Endemic.
