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Nepeta complanata Dunn, Notes Roy. Bot. Gard. Edinburgh 8: 122. 1913; Dracocephalum rockii Diels; Glechoma complanata (Dunn) Turrill; Phyllophyton complanatum (Dunn) Kudo; Pseudolophanthus complanatus (Dunn) Levin.

Rhizomes woody, brown. Stems numerous, ascending or prostrate, 13-25 cm, apex white villous, finely glandular, base purple-red, leafless, subglabrous. Leaves crowded, largest at mid stem; petiole short or obsolete; leaf blade broadly ovate-orbicular to subreniform, 1.5-2.5 × 2-3 cm, papery, white villous, adaxial veins glabrous, base broadly cuneate to subcordate, margin crenate, ciliate, apex obtuse to rounded. Cymes 3-flowered; peduncle 1-3 mm; bracts linear-subulate. Pedicel 1-2 mm, villous. Calyx 0.9-1.2 cm, densely white hirsute, conspicuously veined; limb oblique, 2-lipped; teeth ovate to ovate-triangular, ciliate. Corolla reddish, 1.5-2.3 cm, sparsely puberulent; tube tubular, dilated at apex; limb resupinate; middle lobe of upper lip widest, ovate-oblong, apex sometimes emarginate; lateral lobes small, broadly ovate-oblong; lobes of lower lip oblong, straight, ca. 4 mm. Nutlets oblong to oblong-ovoid, adaxially slightly triquetrous. Fl. Jun-Jul, fr. Jul-Sep.

* Crevices of weathered rocks, stony alluvial fans; 4300-5000 m. Qinghai, Sichuan, Xizang, Yunnan.