Teucrium turcicum

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Saxatile shrubs, 10–30 cm long and branched from the base, ascending, lower part of stem densely woolly and sparse villous from base to inflorescence. Leaves distinctly petiolate, petiole 2–7 mm long; leaves increase in size from base to inflorescence, lamina10–30 × 4–14 mm, obovate, cuneate at base, crenate and slightly revolute at margines, acute to obtuse at apex, villous green above and wooly grey beneath; veins are visible in both sides. Inflorescence 5–8 cm long, 6–10-flowered, verticillasters 2-flowered, stalked glandular hairs. Bracts are similar to leaves in shape and hairy, 4–6 mm long. Pedicel 3–5 mm long. Calyx 5–8 mm long, campanulate, densely villous with sessile glands, with glandular papillae; teeth are 2.5–4mm long, broadly triangular, acuteat apex, ±reflexed. Corolla whitish to creamy-yellow, rarely with indistinct purple-striped, 18– 22 mm long, longer than calyx; middle lobe of lower lip is bearded outside; style and filaments are exserted from corolla, filaments 20–24 mm long, glandular pubescent at the base of both, style equally stamens, bilobed. Nutlets obovoid, 1.5–2.5 mm long, brown, tuberculate, sessile glandular and villous in 1/3 upper part.

Flowering and fruiting time: May–June.

Endemic.