Sideritis congesta

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Perennial, 20-75 cm, simple or little-branched, densely adpressed white-tomentose below, loosely cobwebby-woolly, sparsely glandular, greenish above. Middle cauline leaves oblong to oblong-lanceolate, mucronate, sessile, finely crenate-denticulate to serrate, 1.5-3 x 0.5-1.2 cm, Verticillasters 5-12, 6-flowered, crowded or lowest 1-3 cm distant. Middle bracts yellowish-green, puberulent with sessile glands, broadly ovate to orbicular, 1.2-2 x 1-2 cm, with acumen 2-7 mm, lowest bracts serrulate to distinctly serrate, contracted at base. Calyx 9-11 mm, teeth linear-lanceolate, 3.5-5 mm, acute, with eglandular hairs, tube with glandular hairs. Corolla yellow, 12-16 mm, hairy and with brown striae inside. 2n = 32; n = 16 + 1 B . Fl. 5-8. Phrygana, open Pinus brutia forest, Quercus scrub, s.l.-1000 m.

Endemic. E. Medit. element.