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Published In: The Flora of British India 4: 663. 1885. (Fl. Brit. India) Name publication detailView in Biodiversity Heritage Library
 

Project Name Data (Last Modified On 6/2/2011)
Acceptance : Accepted
Project Data     (Last Modified On 6/3/2011)
Contributor Text: I.C. Hedge
Flower/Fruit: Fl. Per.: May-September.
Type: Types: Kashmir: Tilail, 3350 m, Clarke (K); Kunylwan, 2280 m, Clarke (K).
Distribution: Distribution: Pakistan, Kashmir, NW India, Tibet.
Comment/Acknowledgements: A close ally of, but distinct from, Nepeta erecta q. v. Nepeta clarkei is apparently a plant of stony slopes and open ground.
Map Location: A-7 Chitral: Lutko valley, Dorah pass, 3800 m, Stainton 3248 (BM, E); Babusar pass, Sultanul Abedin & Qaiser 8978 (KUH); Babusar village, Si-ddiqi & Y. Nasir 2783 (RAW); Gurez, R. R. Stewart 19632 (RAW); B-6 Chitral: Birir, 2440 m, Bowes Lyon 690 (BM, E); Drosh Gol, S Drosh, 1830 m, Stainton 3186 (BM, E); Madaklasht, 3650 m, Stainton 3113 (BM, E, RAW); B-7 Hazara: Kaghan valley, Naran, 2300 m, Burtt 826 (E); Kaghan valley, Inayat 20078 (K); Malakundi, Duthie 22100 (K); Swat: Kalam, R. R. Stewart 24671 (RAW); B-8 Kashmir: Baltistan, Skardu to Kishen Ganga valley, R. R. Stewart 22971 (RAW); Gadsar, 3650 m, Stainton 7907 (BM, E); B-9 Kashmir: upper Astor valley, Shankargarh, R. R. Stewart 1876 (RAW); Kashmir: Kostorkut, NW Vishensar, 3350 in, O. Polunin 56/710 (BM, E).

 

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Herbaceous perennial with a thick woody rhizome. Stems 50-100 cm, erect, branched, forming clumps up to 80 cm across, quadrangular, finely papillose glandular with scattered villous hairs especially near base. Leaves 15-70 x 10-40 cm, narrow to broad ovate, broad cuneate to cordate, crenulate to serrate, acute, eglandular pubescent, below with numerous sessile oil globules; petiole on lower leaves to 25 mm, decreasing above. Inflorescence of separated many-flowered verticillasters, lowermost pedunculate in wills of upper leaves, upper sessile and approximating. Bracts linear, 1/2 as long to as long as calyces. Pedicels absent to 1.5 mm. Calyx 7-8 mm, almost straight, green or purplish, with eglandular hairs, papillose glands and sessile oil globules; throat slightly oblique; teeth somewhat unequal, triangular-subulate, longest to 3 mm. Corolla pale blue or mauve, c. 15 mm; tube slightly curved, exserted, widest at throat; upper lip bilobed, straight; lower lip ± white, flecked blue. Anthers violet. Nutlets c. 2 x 0.8 mm, ellipsoid, chestnut brown, ± trigonous, apically rounded, minutely granular with a small basal bilobed areole.
 
 
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