Phlomis
crinita
Cavanilles
Icon. Descr.
Pl. 3:25 (1795)
Distribution
in the wild:Spain,
Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia
crinita
means furnished with long, generally
weak hairs.
The
species will form a large clump in this country and send
out many runners.
For
the many natural hybrids with P. lychnitis, see under
that name.
Similar
sized sub-shrub (75 cm in height) to P. nissolii,
but leaves much broader, shorter and thicker. Leaves, predominantly
basal, 6-18 cm by 2-5 cm, ovate or lanceolate, cordate at
base, looking grey because of the woolly stellate-lanate
indumentum; petiole to 7 cm. Upper stem leaves ovate, sparingly
petiolate and somewhat connate. Floral leaves usually rhombic
(clasping the whorls as in P. lychnitis) 2–4 × 1–2.5
cm, sessile. Whorls 6–10 flowered; bracteoles less than
a millimetre in width, linear 10–18 mm with long soft hairs
up to 3 mm emanating from a stellate base. Calyx covered
with similar long haired stellate hairs, conspicuous equal
teeth to 8 mm, including mucro to 6 mm covered in short
stellate hairs. Corolla brownish yellow or yellow. Nutlets
hairless. Hardy to -10°C.
Natural
hybrids: see after P. lychnitis
P.
crinita subsp. mauritanica
(Munby) Murbeck
Acta.
Univ. Lund. Ser.2, 1(40):66 (1905)
Synonyms:
P. mauritanica Munby
P.
biloba Desfontaines
P.
crinita var. malacitana
Pau
Mem.
Mus. Ciencias Nat. Barcelona ser. Bot. 1 (1):64 (1922)
Probably
a hybrid with P. lychnitis.
