Scrophulariaceae

L. kurdica Boiss. & Hohen. in Boiss., Diagn. ser. 1 (4): 73 (1844).
Erect perennial, 30-90 cm, very variable. Stems stout or slender, paniculate or simple, densely foliose. Median leaves ovate, lanceolate or linear, 30-60 x1-25 mm, very acute or pungent, not amplexicaul, 1-5-nerved, glaucous, thick. Racemes very dense, 5-12 cm in flower. Bracts lanceolate, usually longer than pedicels, often deflexed. Pedicels 1-2(3) mm in flower, slender. Calyx lobes 2-4 mm, ovate, oblong or lanceolate, obtuse to acute, membranous-margined, glabrous, pubescent, tomentellous, villous or ciliolate, eglandular or rarely glandular. Corolla bright or sometimes dirty yellow, with or without violet or brown veins, 8-13 mm, bilabiate to -y-way; spur 5-10 mm, directed downwards, straight or ± incurved. Capsule 4-6 mm, often ± puberulent above, longer than calyx. Seeds winged, 2-2.5 mm, disc minutely tuberculate. Fl. 7-8(-9).
1.Calyx lobes tomentellous or white-tomentose, always obtuse, 2-3 mm
  2. Calyx crisply tomentellous (sometimes glandular), hairs not completely hiding the surface; corolla yellow, often violet-veined subsp. pycnophylla
  2. Calyx densely white-tomentose, snowy white; corolla clear yellow subsp. eriocalyx
1. Calyx lobes glabrous, sparingly puberulent or only ciliolate, acute or obtuse, 2-4 mm
   3. Median leaves linear to linear-lanceolate, only 1-4 mm broad, l(-3)-nerved; . corolla yellow, with or without violet veins subsp. araratica
   3. Median leaves ovate elliptic to narrowly lanceolate, 7-20 mm broad, 3-5- nerved
    4. Calyx lobes ovate to lanceolate, ± acute, 3-4 mm; corolla clear yellow and sometimes violet-veined subsp. kurdica
    4. Calyx lobes ovate to ovate-oblong, obtuse, 2-3 mm; corolla dirty yellow (buff), often brown-veined subsp. aucheri
subsp. kurdica. Figure 21, p. 655. Scrub, rocky slopes, mountain steppe, fallow fields, banks, 800-2400 m.~
Type: [N. Iraq] in declivibus calcareis montis Gara Kurdistaniae, Kotschy 591 (holo. G! iso. K!).
Inner Anatolia. A4 Çankiri: Çakmakli De., 800 m, Bornm. 1929: 14498! A5 Çorum: 43 km from Çorum to Boğazkale, 1000 m, Buttler 15625! A7 Sivas:10 km E. of Suşehri, 1400 m. Spitz. 86! A8 Gümüşane: Bayburt, Bourgeau! A9 Kars: Çildir G., Karamanoğlıı (A N K 740)! B3 Afyon : 21 km from Akşehir to Konya, Perkins 17! B4 Ankara: 40 km E. of Ankara, 18 vi 1962, Andres! B6 Sivas: 28 km N.W. of Divriği, 1500 m, Sorger 69-42-139! B7 Malatya: Venk, 5 km E. of Malatya, 1220-1330 m, Hub.-Mor. 9321 ! B8 Erzurum: nr Erzurum. Hııet! B9 Ağri: E. side of Tahir pass. 2400 m, D. 47105! C6 Maraş: Maraş to Göksun, Perkins 23! C9 Hakkari: Kara Da., 2900 m, D. 24384!
N. Iraq, Transcaucasia; N.W. Iran? Ir.-Tur. element.