Sideritis akmanii

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Perennial. Stems erect, 40-50 cm, with long woolly eglandular hairs and short glandular hairs. Lower leaves petiolate; petiole 1-3 cm; lamina oblong to oblanceolate, mucronate, serrate to serrulate, attenuate at base, adpressed white-silky hairy. Middle cauline leaves petiolate; petiole 0.5-2.5 cm; lamina oblanceolate, mucronate, serrate to serrulate. Upper leaves sessile, lanceolate, serrate to serrulate. Inflorescence simple or with few branches. Verticillasters 10-22, 6-flowered, lowest 1-5 cm distant, middle and upper crowded. All bracts longer than verticillasters. Lower bracts ovate-cordate to lanceolate, 2-4 x 0.9-1.2 cm acuminate, acumen 1-2.5 cm; middle bracts broadly ovate-cordate, 1.5-3 x 0.5-1 cm , acumen 0.5-1.5 cm, calyx 9-15 mm, eglandular pilose and glandular hairy, teeth 3-5 mm, Corolla yellow, 10-12 mm, as long as or slightly longer than calyx. With spreading simple or stellate hairy tubercles externally and brown striae internally. Seeds ovoid, 2.5-3 x 1.5-2 mm, blackish-brown. Fl. 7-8. Steppe. 1520-1550 m,

Endemic. E. Medit. element.