Scutellaria topcuoglui

Muğla kasidesi

Perennial herbs. Stems 4-angled, mutually 2-sides green and 2-sides reddish-purplish, branched at base, ascending to erect, 15–30 cm, densely glandular and eglandular hairy. Leaves simple, decussate, lamina 20–30 × 15–22 mm, ovate to triangular-ovate, margins crenate, apex obtuse or obtuse-acute, base truncate or cordate or cordate to truncate, green, sparsely pubescent on both the lower and the upper surfaces, veins on the lower surface distinct, mostly reddish-brownish or sometimes green and densely pubescent or rarely glandular and eglandular hairy along veins. Petioles 15–20 mm, densely glandular and eglandular hairy. Flowers secund, in axils of floral leaves differentiated from the cauline leaves. Pedicels spreading or rarely addpressed inflorescence axis, 3–3.5 mm at anthesis, 4–4.5 mm in fruit. Inflorescence a spicate raceme, 6–10 cm, with 5–12 flowers, simple or branched at the upper half of stem, densely erect glandular and moderately long eglandular. Bracts exceeding calyx at anthesis, elliptic-ovate, 8–10 × 2–4 mm, green, margins entire, apex acute, rarely obtuse-acute, base obtuse-acute, glandular hairy, petiolate, 2-3 mm, glandular hairy. Calyx persistent, bilabiate, tubular, 2.5–3.5 mm at anthesis, green or the lower lip green and the upper lip reddish-purplish, glandular and long-rigid eglandular hairy, 4.5–5 mm in fruit. Scutellum 3–3.5 mm at anthesis, reddish-purplish, glandular and long-rigid eglandular hairy, enlarging to 5 mm in fruit. Corolla 20–22 mm long, tube soft glandular, pale purple, upper lip soft glandular and long eglandular, pale purple; lower lip glabrous , white with purplish spotted. Stamens 4, didynamous, 2-long and 2- short, inserted in the upper lip . The anthers of short stamens with 2-thecae, ca. 0.7 mm each one, basifix, glabrous, purplish, short ciliates on the mouth only, filaments glabrous, ca. 10 mm. The anthers of long stamens with one-theca, ca. 0.9 mm, dorsifix, glabrous, purplish, on the top and the mouth with short ciliates, filaments glabrous, ca. 13 mm. Style glabrous, ca. 18–19 mm, divided into two parts at the apex, stigma not equal bifurcate. Ovary ginobasic. Fruit nutlet; nutlets 4, oblong-eliptic to ovoid-globose, 1.5–2 x 1– 1.65 mm, brown, papillate-tuberculate.Flowering in May–June and fruiting in June–July.

Endemic.