Ziziphora persica, Bunge

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1972, Flora Europaea. Volume 3. Diapensiacea to Myoporaceae, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press : 163

6. Z. persica Bunge , Mém. Acad. Sci. Pétersb. ser. 7, 21(1): 39 (1873).

Annual; stems up to 30 cm, simple or branched, with deflexed hairs. Leaves 7-4 0x1-1 0 mm, sparse, the lowermost ovate, petiolate, the others lanceolate, subsessile, all acute or acuminate, glabrous, the uppermost sometimes ciliate. Verticillasters many-flowered, crowded, in a dense, ovoid to oblong, spike-like inflorescence. Bracts like the cauline leaves but widened at the base, the upper with a few distant teeth. Calyx 7-10 mm, narrowly cylindrical, patent-hairy; teeth narrowly triangular or lanceolate. Corolla 9 mm, the limb usually without appendage. Anthers appendiculate. Krym (near Simferopol'). Rs (K). (S.W. Asia.)