Teucrium kotschyanum
Teucrium kotschyanum
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Perennial herb. Stems 75-100 cm, erect, virgate, softly hirsute below, crisped-pubescent above, with short sterile axillary shoots. Leaves shortly petiolate, lanceolate to ovate, crenulate, cuneate or rarely rounded at base, pubescent above, tomentellous beneath. Inflorescence a narrow rather lax raceme to 25 cm, many-flowered, simple or sparsely branched below, flowers solitary in axils of bracts. Bracts ovate or ovate-lanceolate, ± reaching apex of calyx. Pedicels slightly shorter than calyx. Calyx 6-7 mm, tube gibbous, pubescent, upper tooth orbicular, mucronate, membranous, reticulate in fruit, slightly longer than the 4 much smaller lateral and lower triangular spinulose teeth. Corolla whitish , 2 x calyx. Fl. 5-7. Pinus forest, in valleys on metamorphic rock, c. 900-1100 m.
Cyprus. E. Medit. element
