Stachys balansae
Stachys balansae
Boz çayçe
Perennial mesophytic herb with basal sterile rosettes. Flowering stems 35-100 cm, simple, rarely branched, erect, patent-pilose with eglandular and glandular hairs. Basal leaves oblong to ovate-oblong, 3-10.5 x 1.5-3.5 cm, usually sparsely adpressed sericeous-pilose on upper surface, softly villous to glabrescent beneath, margin distinctly crenate-serrate, apex obtuse to acute, cordate to subcordate at base, petiole 3-10 cm. Cauline leaves oblong to oblong-lanceolate, 3-10 x 1-3 cm, apex acute, rarely obtuse, shortly petioled to subsessile , gradually passing into similar but smaller sessile floral leaves usually as long as verticillasters. Verticillasters remote throughout or a few confluent above, 1-6 cm distant, 10-16-flowered. Bracteoles lanceolate to linear, 6-12 mm, herbaceous, softly pilose, not spinescent. Pedicels 1.5-10 mm. Calyx sub-bilabiate, subcampanulate, 9-12 mm, sparsely sericeous; teeth subequal, ovate to lanceolate, 1/3-1/2 x tube, erect to slightly recurved in fruit, margin with glandular and eglandular hairs, mucro 1-2 mm. Corolla rose-pink, 15-18 mm, tube subincluded. Nutlets obovoid, 2 x 1.8 mm, slightly winged at base.
1. Leaves sericeous-pilose on upper surface; median cauline leaves narrowly oblong-lanceolate, 2.5-4 x as long as broad ....................subsp. balansae
1.Leaves glabrescent on upper surface; median cauline leaves ovate to broadly elliptic, 1.6-1.7 x as long as broad ...........................subsp. carduchorum
