Phiomis herba-venti subsp. pungens, (Willd.) Maire

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1972, Flora Europaea. Volume 3. Diapensiacea to Myoporaceae, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press : 144

(b) Subsp. pungens (Willd.) Maire exDeFilipps , ’Bot. Jour. Linn. Soc. 64: 233 (1971)

(P. pungens Willd. ):

Stem whitish, stellate-tomentose, the hairs up to 0- 1 mm, sometimes with a secondary indumentum of hairs up to 1 mm, rarely glabrous. Cauline leaves 7-13 cm, lanceolate, cuneate at base, entire, remotely denticulate or serrate, stellate-puberulent or stellate-hispidulous above. Verticillasters 2- to 6-(10-)flowered. S.E. Europe, extending locally westwards to Spain and northwards to c. 53° N. in C. Russia.

Plants with a mixture of stellate-hirsute and whitish-stellate-tomentose indumentum on the stem, cauline leaves truncate to subcordate at the base, and corolla 21-25 mm, occur frequently in Krym, and have been described as P. taurica Hartwiss ex Bunge , Mém. Acad. Sci. Pétersb. ser. 7, 21(1): 77 (1873). They seem to represent variants of 3(b).