Teucrium edetanum M.B. Crespo, Mateo & Navarro

Species

Family: LABIATAE (LAMIACEAE)

Genus: Teucrium

Catalan common name: Poliol amarg. Poliol mascle. Teucri edetà..

Spanish common name: Zamarrilla edetana..

Province distribution: València.

General distribution (Phytogeography): Mediterranean (Eastern-Iberian)

Plants protected by law: País Valencià Catalogue.

IUCN Category: VUVulnerable

Flowering time: JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Life-forms: Chameophyte.

Habitats: Quercus coccifera and Chamaerops humilis litoral maquis. Pine wood and shrubland with rosemary and thyme garigue. Dry shrublands on limestone

Characteristics: Small shrub up to 20 cm tall, with erect, woody stems branched from the base, densely tomentose and whitish-grey in colour. Leaves are linear, opposite, greenish on the upper surface and whitish beneath, with strongly revolute margins and small lobes in the upper half. Inflorescences arranged in glomeruli 1-2 cm wide. Calyx tubular, densely covered with hairs, with teeth ending in a cap-like tip. Corolla (4-5 mm) white or cream, with glabrous posterior lobes