Sideritis gulendamii

Sideritis gulendamii

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Perennial. Stems 20-60 cm, simple or branched, densely adpressed white woolly-tomentose, sometimes glabrescent above, eglandular. Leaves densely adpressed white woolly-tomentose; basal leaves numerous, forming a rosette, oblanceolate-spathulate, 1-6 x 0.4--0.6 cm, entire or crenate to serrate; middle cauline leaves linear, sessile or shortly petiolate, 1-4 x 0.2-0.5 cm, usually entire, sometimes crenate to serrulate, acute, internodes to 7 cm. Inflorescence simple or few branched, 5-15 cm; verticillasters 2-8, 6-flowered, 1-6 cm distant. Middle bracts orbicular to cordate, acuminate, densely adpressed white woolly-tomentose, 0.6-1.2 x 0.6-0.8 cm, including acumen to 0.6 cm, Calyx 7-9 mm, with dense eglandular arachnoid hairs; teeth triangular-lanceolate, acute, 2-3 mm. Corolla yellow, 11-12 mm, hairy outside and inside, with brown markings inside, limb 3-4 mm. Nutlets triangular-ovoid, rounded at apex, brown, glabrous, Fl. 7-8. Gypsum and marny steppe, 880-950 m. 
Endemic. Ir-Tur. element.