Lamiaceae

Stachys iberica subsp. stenostacya

Stachys L. Stachys iberica BIEB subsp. stenostacya (BOISS.) RECH. FIL. Ömür: Çok yıllık Yapı: odunsu ot Hayat formu: İlk çiçeklenme zamanı: 5 Son çiçeklenme zamanı: 8 Habitat: volkanik kaya yamaçları ve serpantin çağıllık, bazen tarla kenarları Minimum yükseklik: 450 Maksimum yükseklik: 1900 Endemik: - Element: İran-Turan Türkiye dağılımı: Karasal ve G. Anadolu Genel dağılımı: Kafkasya, Kırım, Ukrayna Bulunduğu kareler: A3 A4 A5 A6 A7 A8 A9 B3 B4 B5 B6 B7 B8 B9 C3 C4 C6 C9

S. iberica Bieb., Fl. Taur.-Cauc. 2:51 (1808). Suffrutescent perennial, 20-60 cm, erect or procumbent, densely or sparsely adpressed-pilose. Lower and median cauline leaves subsessile to sessile, linear-oblong to oblanceolate, 1.5-5.5 x 0.4-1.2 cm, margin crenate to faintly crenate-serrate, rarely entire, base attenuate. Floral leaves subsessile to sessile, oblong-lanceolate to narrowly lanceolate, gradually becoming ovate-lanceolate above,uppermost as long as or shorter than verticillasters, apex subacute, rarely softly spinescent. Verticillasters remote below, few ± approximate above, 1-5 cm distant, (2-)4-8-flowered. Bracteoles few, small, setaceous, 1-3 mm. Pedicels short, 0.5-1 mm, not conspicuously elongating in fruit. Calyx sub-bilabiate, subcampanulate to tubular, 5-10 mm, sparsely or densely pilose; teeth subequal, erect to subrecurved, triangular-lanceolate, c. 1/2 x tube, mucronate at tip, mucro 0.2-1 mm. Corolla purplish-pink to creamy white with pink markings, 14-18 mm, tube subexserted. Stamens slightly exserted from corolla tube. Nutlets obovoid, 2.2.x 1.8 mm, trigonal with faint basal margins. Fl. 5-8. Sloping limestone or serpentine rocks and screes, streams and riversides, steppes and igneous banks, 800-2400 m.  1. Corolla creamy yellow to white with pink markings; flowering stems usually erect, rarely ascendent; calyx teeth usually c. 1/2 x tube or less, aristae 0.2-1 mm subsp. stenostachya  1. Corolla mauve to pink; flowering stems usually ascending, rarely erect; calyx teeth as long as or slightly less than tube, aristae 0.5-2 mm   2. Plant ± erect, slender and elongate, c. (24-)38-65 cm, paler green; median cauline leaves lanceolate with acute apex subsp. georgica   2. Plant ascending, stout and dwarfish, c. 13-35(-45) cm, darker green; median cauline leaves oblaneolate with obtuse apex subsp. iberica     3. Median cauline leaves usually distinctly crenate to crenate-dentate, leaves and stems sparsely hairy; corolla dark mauve to purple var. iberica    3. Median cauline leaves usually entire to subentire; leaves and stems densely hairy; corolla palepink  var. densipilosa subsp. stenostachya (Boiss.) Rech. fil. in Feddes Rep. 53:84 (1944) quoad typ. haud specim. alter. Syn: S. iberica Bieb. var. memorabilis (haud nomen) apud Bieb., Fl. Taur.-Cauc. 3:400 (1819);S. stenostachya Boiss. in Diagn. ser. 2(4):41 (1859)! S. iberica Bieb. var. brachyodonta Boiss., Fl. Or. 4:731 (1879)! S. iberica Bieb. var. pallidiflora Boiss., loc. cit. (1879) p.p. excl. typ., nom. illegit.; S. euphratica Hayek in Feddes Rep. 21:258 (1925)! S. memorabilis Klokov in Fl. URSR 9:648 (1960). Ic: Fl. URSR 9:178, t. 19 (1960), as S. memorabilis. Map 38. Igneous rocky slopes and serpentine screes, sometimes in field banks, 450-1900 m. Type: [Turkey C5 Hatay/Syria] in parte inferiori montis Cassii Syriae borealis (Akra Da.), Boissier (holo. G!). Mainly Inner & S. Anatolia. A4 Ankara: Hacikadin, 950 m, 13 vii 1945, Kasapligil(!). A5 Çorum: Boğazkale, 1000 m, Sorger 71-7-15! A6 Ordu: Samsun to Trabzon, 10 km from Ünye, Jardine 415! A8 Gümüşane: Bayburt, Bourgeau 225! B4 Ankara: Ankara, Bornm. 1892:3182! B5 Kayseri: Kisge to Bakir Da., 1700 m, D. 19492! B6 Adana: Saimbeyli to Tufanbeyli, 1350 m, Ekim 3582(!). B7 Erzincan: Egin (Kemaliye), Paschtasch (Bağiştaş) on Euphrates, Sint. 1889:934 (type of 5. euphratica)! B8 Erzurum: 20 km from. Aşkale to Bayburt, 1900 m, A. Baytop (ISTE 41123(!). B9 Van: 5 km W. of Gevaş, 1670-1700 m, Hub.-Mor. 11392! C4 Konya: Karaman to Mut, 1430 m, Hub.-Mor. 17249! C6 Hatay: Amanus rats., Haradj. 308! Caucasia, Crimea, Ukraine. Ir.-Tur. element. This is the commonest subspecies in Inner Anatolia. Distribution of species: Greece, Crimea, Caucasia, Iran, N. Syria. Additional varieties have been described from Caucasia (cf. Grossheim, Fl. Kavk. 7:378, 1967) but these have not been examined.Subsect. Distantes Bhattacharjee. Suffrutescent perennials without basal rosettes. Indumentum floccose-tomentose to arachnoid. Lower cauline leaves ovate to ovate-lanceolate with rounded to cuneate base. Bracteoles conspicuous, herbaceous.