Teucrium pugionifolium Pau

Species

Family: LABIATAE (LAMIACEAE)

Genus: Teucrium

Sinònims: Teucrium webbianum Boiss. subsp. pugionifolium (Pau) O.Bolòs & Vigo

Catalan common name: Alzineta fina.

Spanish common name: Camedrio fino.

Province distribution: Castelló. València.

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

Plants protected by law: País Valencià Catalogue.

IUCN Category: LCLeast concern

Flowering time: JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Life-forms: Chameophyte. Geophyte.

Habitats: Scree. Rock crevices and cliff faces. Rocky surfaces and dry stone walls. Dry shrublands and steep, rocky limestone areas in cool mid-mountain zones, on shallow soils

Characteristics: Perennial herb up to 15 cm tall, slightly woody at the base. Stems erect, reddish, and slightly tomentose. Leaves petiolate, greyish-green above and whitish beneath, slightly crenate, generally shaped like an arrowhead, triangular-lanceolate, or triangular-linear. Flowers arranged in loose racemes. Bracts sessile, with few short hairs, ovate-rhombic in shape. Calyx tubular (5-7 mm). Corolla 10-12 mm, purple, more or less pale

Observations: Plant similar to T. chamaedrys, from which it mainly differs in the shape and degree of leaf tomentosity