Stachys pinetorum

Gür deliçay

Perennial, mesophytic herb with basal rosettes of sterile shoots. Flowering stems erect, simple or branched, 50-150 cm, adpressed-tomentose with short eglandular hairs. Basal and cauline leaves ovate to ovate-oblong, 5-13 x 2-6 cm, margin crenate-dentate, cordate at base, petiole 2-10 cm; indumentum densely floccose and white-tomentose below, pubescent above. Floral leaves sessile, oblong-lanceolate, 1.5-3 x 0.5-2 cm, as long as or longer than verticillasters. Verticillasters remote, 10-16-flowered. Bracteoles ovate-acuminate to lanceolate, 4-8 mm, herbaceous, not spinescent-tipped. Pedicels 2-4 mm. Calyx subbilabiate, subcampanulate, 9-12 mm, sparsely pilose with glandular hairs , nerves ± prominent; teeth unequal, ovate-lanceolate, c. 1/2 x tube, recurved in fruit, mucro 0.8-1 mm. Corolla pink, 14-18 mm, tube subincluded. Nutlets ovoid, 2.2 x 2 mm. Fl. 7-8. Streams and riversides, steep gullies, 335-1800 m.

N. Syria . E. Medit. element.