Pedicularis munzurdaghensis

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Perennial. Stem unbranched or many branched at the base, erect or ascending, 5–15 cm, often brown to purplish, villous, and glabrous soon after blooming. Leaves narrowly oblong-lanceolate, 1–2 pinnatisect, lamina 16–32 × 4–8 mm, serrate; leaf segments narrowly spaced, oblong-lanceolate, acutely serrate, mucronate; basal leaves petiolate, petiole 10–30 mm long, upper leaves sessile and broader than basal leaves. Cauline leaves 2 verticillate and 3–4 leaves each whorled. Leaves with white minute mucro at apex. Inflorescence many flowered, oblong, short, lanate-villous, verticillate, scarcely elongating in fruit, up to 5 cm. Bracts broadly ovate, surrounding the calyx, 9– 19 × 4–15 mm, irregularly deeply incised , decreasing in size to upwards; lower bracts leaf like, upper bracts narrowly ovate, only toothed at apex. Pedicels erect-spreading, 1–3 mm long. Calyx tubular, 7–11 mm long; tube 4–5 mm, teeth 3–6 mm long. Corolla purple, glabrous, lower lip light pink to white, 18–21 mm; tube 13–15 mm long, curved or bent; upper lip ± straight, obtuse, rounded. Anthers not mucronate; filaments glabrous. Capsule oblong, 11–16 × 5 mm, obliquely falcate, glabrous, acute. Seeds 1.8–2.1 × 0.5–0.8 mm.

Endemic.