Veronica macrostachya

Veronica macrostachya

 Ssp macrostachya: Koca maviş; Ssp mardinensis: Mardin mavişi; Ssp sorgerae: İçel mavişi

 
Perennial, 5-30 cm, ± woody at base, ± branched, repent or ascending, ± densely pubescent with short to long, thick and subrigid to thin and silky hairs. Petiole 0-4 mm. Lamina ovate, obovate, narrowly elliptic or oblanceolate, 10-35 x 3-13 mm, green or grey-tomentose. Racemes 1-5, rather densely 12-50-f1owered. Pedicels 3-7 mm, 0,3-1,2 x bracts. Calyx 3-5 mm, lobes 4-5. Corolla blue, violet, purple, pink or whitish, 7-12 mm diam. Style 3-5 mm. Capsule ± obcordate, 3-4,5 x 4-6 mm, eglandularpubescent , often rather slightly emarginate, base cuneate to ± rounded.Seeds 0-c.8,elliptic, ± flat, 1-1,8x0,8-1,3mm, rugose.
1. Stems ± ascending; leaves ± green , hirsute or sericeous, hairs 0,3-1,3 mm, usually eglandular, often ± subrigid, straight, curved upwards or ± crisp; margin usually deeply and 'densely serrate to crenate with 7-16 teeth per side, not or slightly revolute; racemes usually eglandular, lower bracts 5-12 mm, ± entire subsp. macrostachya
1. Stems ascending or decumbent; leaves grey, densely tomentose or lanate with thin eglandular hairs and very short glandular hairs; racemes usually with glandular and eglandular hairs
  2. Stems ascending; leaves velvety to villous, hairs patent or slightly retrorse, 0,3-0,7 mm; margin usually deeply and densely crenate or subpinnatifid with 10-20 teeth per side, not or slightly revolute; lower bracts 5-12 mm, conspicuously serrate to pinnatifid subsp. mardinensis
  2. Stems decumbent, ± repent; leaves lanate-tomentose, hairs 0,7-3 mm, ± interwoven; margin entire to crenate-serrate with to c. 6 teeth per side,usually conspicuously revolute; lower bracts 3-5 mm, entire subsp. sorgerae