Lesquereuxia syriaca
Lesquereuxia syriaca
Arap davunotu
Perennial with a thick woody rootstock, viscid. Stems erect, 25-50 cm, leafy, usually simple, with long eglandular and glandular hairs. Leaves opposite at least below, oblong-elliptic, acuminate, to c. 50 x 10 mm, sessile, entire, glandular-pilose. Pedicels 10 mm, spreading-erect. Bracts linear-oblong, c. 12 mm. Calyx tubular, c. 23 mm, prominently 10-veined, membranous between veins, densely glandular-pilose, tube c. 15 mm; teeth of upper lip c. 10 mm; teeth of lower lip c. 3 mm. Corolla purplish with yellow lower lip, c. 25-30 mm; tube c. 15 mm; upper lip ± truncate; lower lip shortly 1-lobed. Capsule included in calyx, c. 13 x 3 mm. Fl. 7-8. Among rocks, Quercus macchie, limestone cliffs, 300-2000 m.
Greece. E. Medit. element.
