Lamiaceae |
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Teucrium orientale var. orientale |
Teucrium orientale var. orientale |
Teucrium L. |
T. orientale L., Sp. Pl. 562(1753). Ic: Bot. Mag. 31: t. 1279(1810). Herbaceous perennial. Stems erect from a woody stock, 20-50 cm, glab-rous, puberulent or villous, hairs unicellular or multicellular. Leaves sub-sessile, ternately 2-3-pinnatisect into greenish linear lobes with revolute margins, glabrous or hairy. Inflorescence a thyrsoid panicle. Floral leaves dis-sected, shorter than the 1-3-flowered peduncles, pedicels longer than calyx. Calyx (3.5-)4-6(-7.5) mm, campanulate, teeth triangular-lanceolate, 1/3-2/3 as long as tube, straight-tipped. Corolla lilac-blue, usually 3 x calyx, occasionally glabrous; stamens about as long as lip. Fl. 6-9. A very variable species, divided here into 3 varieties according to indumentum. For this reason only specimens seen are cited. 1. Plant glabrous or subglabrous (stem often puberulous below) var. glabrescens 1. Plant conspicuously hairy 2. Stem puberulent, hairs (unicellular) sometimes increasing in length in inflorescence var. puberulens 2. Main stem shaggy with long multicellular (sometimes sparse) and short unicellular hairs var. orientale var. orientale. Syn: T. orientale L. var. villosum Bentham in DC, Prodr. 12: 577 (1848)! T. orientale L. var. leiocalycina Bornm. in Verh. Zool.-Bot. Ges. Wien 48:624 (1898)! Open Quercus and Pinus forest, meadows, rocky slopes, 600-2150 m. Described from the Orient (BM-Hb. Cliff.). Mainly Inner Anatolia. Caria, 1843, Pinard (syntype of var. villosum)! A4 Çankiri: Çakmakli De., 800 m, Bornm. 1929:14554! A5 Amasya: Moramul Köyü, T. Baytop (ISTE 4649)! A7 Gümüşane: Taltaban, Sint. 1894:4285! A8 Erzurum: Ispir, 1300 m, Barclay 840! B2 Manisa: 10 km W. of Alaşehir, Hub.-Mor. 5266. B3 Eskişehir: Türkmen Da., Kuru G., 1500 m, Ekim 2413! B4 Ankara: Ankara, Bornm. 1892:3187 (syntype of var. leiocalycina)! B5 Niğde: Nevşehir to Ürgüp, 1200-1300 m, D. 19120! B6 Sivas: 30 km from Suşehri to Zara, 1300 m, Stn. & Hend. 5764! B8 Muş: Çaylar, 1600 m, D. 46364! B9 Van: Erek Da., 2150 m, D. 22917! C3 Isparta: d. Eğridir, Yukari Gökdere, Kasnak forest, 1700 m, Peşinen & Güner 1825! C4 Konya: nr Koraş, 1400 m, Siehe 1912:261! C5 Konya: Ereğli, Aydos Da., Delimah-mutlu, 1700 m, Erik 1508! Caucasia, Iran, Syria and Lebanon, Ir.-Tur. element. I have included all long haired specimens within this group. Mature plants may eventually lose their long hairs and become puberulent or even glabrescent, and are thus easily mistaken for the following varieties. |