Phlomis
oreophila Karelin & Kirilov
Bull.
Soc. Nat. Mosc. 15:426 (1842)
Synonym:
Phlomoides
oreophila (Karelin & Kirilov)
Adylov, Kamelin, Makhmedov
Distribution
in the wild:
China (Xingiang), Former USSR (Central Asia, Mongolia, Siberia),
from the forest steppe and forest zones up to the subalpine
zone, on stony slopes, grassy slopes, at 2100-3000 m.
Flowering
in the wild: June-August
oreophila
means mountain loving.
Herbaceous
perennial 30-80 cm. Stringlike roots. Basal leaves ovate
to broadly ovate, acuminate, base cordate, crenate at margin,
6.5-13 × 5-10 cm; petiole 6-14 cm. Stem leaves similar or
circular, 6-11 × 3.2-7 cm. Floral leaves ovate-lanceolate
or lanceolate-linear, 3–6 × 0.5-2 cm; upper side of leaves
with scattered simple hairs, lower side densely stellate
and fascicled hairs. Up to 5 whorls per stem of many flowers.
Bracteoles thin, 10-13 mm, filiform-subulate with long spreading
hairs sometimes glandular villous. Calyx tubular, 13-15
cm, covered with stellate and long simple hairs, densely
on the veins, teeth broad-ovate or rounded, deeply notched,
apex subulate-acuminate, with a point 2-2.5 mm. Corolla
c. 24 mm, lilac to purple. Nutlets stellate hairy at apex.
P.
oreophila Karelin & Kirilov var.
oreophila
Bracts
densely villous or sometimes intermixed with glandular villous
hairs; calyx stellate puberulant, finely villous on veins
outside.
P.
oreophila Karelin & Kirilov var. evillosa
C. Y. Wu
Bracts
and calyx stellate pannose.
