Stachys pinardii is a species of flowering plant in the family Lamiaceae endemic to the Antalya region of Turkey.

Stachys pinardii
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Lamiales
Family: Lamiaceae
Genus: Stachys
Species:
S. pinardii
Binomial name
Stachys pinardii
Boiss.[1]

Description

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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 (3(-6) cm apart) 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 (1–9.5 cm apart) which lacks the hair-ring within the flower tube that S. pinardii possesses and has larger nutlets (3-3.5 mm) than S. pinardii (2.5 mm) [2]

As a regional-endemic known from a limited number of places, it is classed as VU (Vulnerable).[2]

Photographic details can be seen on iNaturalist.

Further reading

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  • Flora of Turkey and the East Aegean Islands, vol. 7, P.H.Davis, 1982, p. 208 (key) and p. 233 (description)

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