Scrophulariaceae

V. fridericae M.A. Fischer in Pl. Syst. Evol. 144:67 (1984).
Rootstock robust, giving rise to many flowering stems 10-15 cm. Stems densely eglandular-puberulent, with minute (0.1-0.2 mm), reflexed or recurved hairs; internodes 7-15 mm. Leaves pinnatipartite, pinnatifid, remotely serrate or entire, linear-lanceolate, 10-25 x 1-8 mm, segments linear or triangular-lanceolate, 0.5-2 mm broad, with revolute margins; indumentum of short recurved hairs, very densely velvety, subcanescent. Terminal shoots (above racemes) 5-20 mm. Racemes 1-2, 15-30-flowered, 2-5 cm in fruit; peduncle 1.5-4 cm, densely eglandular-puberulent. Bracts 2-3 mm. Pedicels 3-6 mm in fruit, + patent, 2 x bracts. Fruiting calyx 3-5 mm, pubescent; hairs 0.1-0.3 mm, + recurved. Corolla unknown. Capsule turgid, 3.3-4x3.5-4 mm, truncate at base, acutely emarginate and emucronate, rather densely puberulent; hairs 0.05-0.2 mm. Style (3-)3.7-4.3 mm. Seeds 4 per capsule, 2.5x1.1-1.5 mm, slightly cymbiform, ochre-yellow. Fl. 6. Alpine steppe, c. 2800 m.
Type: Turkey B9 Van: Güzeldere geçidi (i.e. jugi transitum inter pagos Başkale et Hoşap), 36 km N.W. a pago Başkale; alpinetum solute (40%) vestitum, 2790 m, 9 vii 1982, Friederike Sorger & Peter Buchner, Sorger 82-57-54 (holo. Hb. Sorger! iso. WU!).
S.E. Anatolia. B9 Van: Güzeldere pass, 2790 m, Sorger 81-35-58!
Endemic. Ir.-Tur. element. Evidently related to V. acrotheca Bornm. & Gauba and V.farinosa Hausskn., both of which inhabit W. Iran. For a discussion, and a revised key to the hairy- and pinnatifid-leaved perennial Veronicas (Group C in the Flora of Turkey key [6:696]), see Fischer, op. cit. 68-70 (1984).