PHLOMISL. - LAMPWICK PLANT
Scientific Description:
Perennial herbs or small shrubs, pilose or tomentose, with or without glands; hairs stellate to dendroid. Leaves undivided, entire or crenate-dentate. Verticillasters few to many-flowered, crowded or distant in axil of floral leaves; bracteoles absent, few or numerous, subulate to ovate. Calyx tubular or narrowly campanulate, 5−10-veined, 5-toothed, teeth equal or unequal. Corolla 2-lipped, purple, pink or yellow (sometimes with brownish upper lip), tube not exceeding calyx, annulate or glabrous within, upper lip hooded, emarginate, lower lip patent, 3-lobed. Stamens 4, included or exserted; anthers in pairs, thecae divergent; style branches unequal. Nutlets trigonous, glabrous or pubescent.
Reference:
Huber-Morath A (1982). Phlomis L., In: Davis PH (ed.), Flora of Turkey and the East Aegean Islands, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 7: 102.
Public Description:
Phlomis, commonly known as “lampwick plant” or “Jerusalem sage”, is native from the Mediterranean region east across central Asia to China. There are approximately 113 species in the world and 46 species (55 taxa) in Türkiye. The name “Phlomis” derives from a Greek word “flame”, and may refer to the leaves use in ancient times as lamp wicks. They are herbaceous plants, subshrubs and shrubs with usually densely hairy stems, and have purple, pink or yellow flowers.
References:
Anonymous 1 (2017). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phlomis,Accessed date: 22.08.2017.
Anonymous 2 (2017). http://www.theplantlist.org/1.1/browse/A/Lamiaceae/Phlomis/,Accessed date: 22.08.2017.
Dadandı MY (2012). Phlomis L., In: Güner, A., Aslan, S., Ekim, T., Vural, M. & Babaç, M.T. (eds.), Türkiye Bitkileri Listesi (Damarlı Bitkiler). Nezahat Gökyiğit Botanik Bahçesi ve Flora Araştırmaları Derneği Yayını. İstanbul, pp. 570–573.
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