Stachys aleurites

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Suffrutescent, erect perennial, 40-60 cm. Flowering stems ± simple, unbranched, thinly arachnoid-canescent, sometimes glabrescent below. Lower cauline leaves ovate to ovate-lanceolate, 1.5 x 1-2.5 cm, crenate-serrate, base subcordate to truncate, petiole 1.5-3.5 cm, gradually passing into shorter, subsessile to sessile, lanceolate, subentire, median cauline and floral leaves. Floral leaves spinescent at tip, as long as or slightly longer than verticillasters, ± patent. Verticillasters 8-12-flowered, 1-2 uppermost ± approximate. Bracteoles lanceolate, 9-12 x 1.5-2 mm, as long as calyx tube, spinescent tipped. Pedicels 0.2-0.5 mm. Calyx sub-bilabiate, tubular to subcampanulate, 11-13.5 mm; teeth lanceolate-subulate, ± as long as tube, with long spinescent tip, recurved in fruit. Corolla purple, 13-15 mm, tube subexserted. Nutlets obovoid, 2-2.5 mm. Fl. 4-7. Calcareous rocks near the coast, 10-600 m,

Endemic. E. Medit. element.