Stachys baytopiorum

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Suffrutescent saxatile perennial. Flowering stems 25-30 cm, erect to ± pendent, fragile at base, densely retrorsely pilose, glandular hairs sessile. Cauline leaves ovate to oblong-ovate, 10-15 x 6-9 mm, greyish-green, subcordate to truncate, acute to submucronate, serrulate, densely adpressed hairy, glands sessile; lower shortly petiolate ; middle and upper leaves sessile. Floral leaves similar to but smaller than cauline leaves. Verticillusters ± congested. 3-4, lowermost 5-6 mm apart. Bracteoles conspicuous. herbaceous, linear, 5-6 mm, ± equalling calyx, spreading pilose, not spinescent at tips. Flowers sessile. Calyx ± regular, narrowly infundibular, c. 6 mm, spreading- pilose; teeth triangular-lanceolate, 1/2 x tube, not spinescent-tipped. Corolla 10-11 mm, yellowish, pilose outside, tube slightly exserted, annulate; upper lip oblong-elliptic, 4 mm, obtuse-rounded; lower lip c. 6 mm, 3-lobed, middle lobe 2 x lateral lobes. Nutlets immature. Fl. 6.

Probably also occurring in N. Iraq. Ir.-Tur, element.