Stachys pinardii
Stachys pinardii is a species of flowering plant in the family Lamiaceae endemic to the Antalya region of Turkey.
Description
Stachys pinardii is a perennial herb with fragile stems growing on the walls, roof and floor of calcareous caverns and vertical faces in Antalya with an altitude of 20–350 m.It is a long-hairy plant, with large, oval, broad-toothed leaves, and with medium-spaced whorls of white flowers set along flowering stems that from the limestone walls and roofs tend to hang downwards. There are generally 4-10 flowers per whorl, distinguishing it from the similar Stachys buttleri of the Upper Düden Waterfalls which generally has 2 per whorl. Rather eastward at Içel there is a similar Stachys pseudopinardii with laxer whorls which lacks the hair-ring within the flower tube that S. pinardii possesses and has larger nutlets than S. pinardii
As a regional-endemic known from a limited number of places, it is classed as VU.
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