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Published In: Biologiske Skrifter 8(1): 26, f. 11. 1954. (Biol. Skr.) Name publication detail
 

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Project Data     (Last Modified On 6/3/2011)
Contributor Text: I.C. Hedge
Flower/Fruit: Fl. Per.: May-June.
Type: Type: Afghanistan, Nuristan, Pashki, Edelberg 619 (W!, C).
Distribution: Distribution: E. Afghanistan, NW Pakistan.
Comment/Acknowledgements: Usually growing in rock crevices, ledges or scree. With some affinities to Nepeta grociliflora, but with a much thicker woodier rootstock. Also related to Nepeta aff. hindostana which has very similar and characteristic nutlets with a long extended U-shaped areole.
Map Location: A-6? Chitral: Shoghot, N. Chitral, 1830 m, Stainton 2749 (BM, E); B-6 Chitral: Urtsun Got, SW Drosh, 1830 m, Stainton 3196 (BM, E); Birir, 2560 m, Bowes Lyon 692 (BM, E); Shishi valley, 1830 m, Bowes Lyon 619 (BM, E); ?Chitral: Shunkar, Siddiqui & Rahman s.n. (RAW); Gilgit expedition, Giles s.n. (E); Panj Kora, Barrett in Drummond 22027 (K).

 

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Perennial with a thick woody rootstock. Stems many usually not or little branched, 10-25 cm, slender, erect-ascending, leafy, with a pilose or vinous eglandular indumentum. Leaves greyish, small, c. 7-10 x 7-10 mm, ovate-triangular, serrulate, truncate to subcordate, nervation prominent, ± densely lanate-floccose below with numerous sessile oil globules; petiole 2-12 mm. Inflorescence of many ± loose 3-5-flowered long-pedunculate cymes arising from arils of upper leaves. Bracts linear subulate. Pedicels subabsent to 1 mm. Calyx 4-5.5 mm, tubular, thin-textured, throat oblique, eglandular or glandular pilose with sessile oil globules; teeth unequal, narrow triangular, acute to acuminate, shorter than to subequalling tube. Corolla mauve to violet blue, 8-9.5 mm; tube exserted from calyx. Nutlets 1.7 x 0.8 mm, pale brown, ellipsoid, tuberculate, with a U-shaped areole extending almost its entire length.
 
 
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