Annual herb ; up to 10 cm high , covered with a dense indumentum of short eglandular retrorse hairs . Stems erect , unbranched , leafy . Leaves simple , 15-20 x 7-15 mm , oblong-ovate , base cuneate , apex obtuse , margins crenate , pubescent with sessile glands ; petiol 10-20 mm . Inflorescences in verticils present from near the base of stem ; bracts linear-oblong , sessile or shortly petiolate , with marginal awns 2-4 mm long ; pedicels markedly flattened in fruit . Flowers pale lilac to blue-whitish pink ; calyx 6-7 mm , tubular , 2-lipped , prominently veined with short eglandular spreading hairs and few sessile oil globules ; upper lip 3-lobed , lower 2-lobed , all acuminate with teeth convergent in fruit and closing the mouth ; corolla pale lilac to blue-pink , 7-8 mm , slightly longer than the calyx ; upper lip with 2 longitudinal folds within , almost flat . Fruit nutlets ± 2 mm , dark brown , mucilaginous on wetting . (Ref . Flora of Oman ; vol . 3) .
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Not Evaluated (NE)
Not Common
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Dracocephalum inderiense Less. ex Kar. & Kir.
Dracocephalum royleanum Benth.
Nepeta erodiifolia Boiss.
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Balangu‐Shirazi
Balangu
Not recorded yet
*Ghazanfar, S. (2015). Flora of the Sultanate of Oman, vol.3: Loganiaceae – Asteraceae. Meise, National Botanic Garden of Belgium (Scripta Botanica Begica, Vol. 25). ISBN 9789082352511 ISSN 0779-2387. *https://en.wikipedia.org *POWO (2023). ""Plants of the World Online. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet; http://www.plantsoftheworldonline.org
