1. Teucrium stocksianum Boiss., Diagn. ser. 2, 4: 58. 1859. Boiss., Fl.Or. 4: 821. 1879; Burkill, Work. List Fl. Pl. Baluch. 61. 1909; Mukerjee , l.c. 217; Hedge & Lamond l.c. 147; Stewart, Ann. Cat. Vasc. Pl. W. Pak. & Kashm. 637. 1972; Reek f., l.c. 28.
I.C. Hedge
Perennial, caespitose, strongly suffruticose, aromatic herb. Stems simple or branched, 10-30 cm, leafy, white or greyish white, ± terete, with a dense eglandular indumentum of adpressed and retrorse or spreading short hairs. Leaves greyish-white, narrow elliptic, oblong or obovate, sessile or subsessile, 12-20 x 4-10 mm, cuneate at base, obtuse to acute at apex, in upper part 3-5 crenate-dentate or subentire, tomentose on both surfaces, denser abaxially and with sessile oil globules. Flowers sessile, congested into terminal, or lateral, oblong or ovoid heads, subtended by leaf-like oblong to linear bracts as long as or longer than calyces. Calyx 5-7.5 mm, ± obliquely campanulate, with a spreading or adpressed eglandular indumentum and usually gland-dotted, scarcely bilabiate; tube with some villous hairs internally; teeth of upper lip equal, triangular, those of lower lip triangular-lanceolate somewhat longer than upper. Corolla 8-12 mm, yellowish-white with darker pink or lilac markings. Nutlets c. 1.8 x 1.2 mm, rugulose-reticulate.
Type: [Pakistan] Baluchistan: Hurbab in montibus Kala, 5000’, Stocks (G!, K!).
This is a common (or at least much collected) species in our area. Its variation in stem and calyx indumentum allows three slightly intergrading varieties to be recognized; Rechinger (l.c.), in accordance with his Flora Iranica concepts, gave them subspecific rank. The species also occurs in the SE of the Arabian peninsula.
