Sideritis foetens, Clemente ex Lag.

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 : 140

2. S. foetens Clemente ex Lag. , Gen. Sp. Nov. 18 (1816)

( S. lasiantha auct., vix Pers.).

Fetid shrub up to 100 cm with erect, herbaceous, glabrescent flowering stems up to 100 cm. Leaves up to 20 x 1-5 mm, few, linear, entire. Verticillasters 10-25, c. 6- flowered, mostly crowded into long, dense spikes. Lower bracts 6-8 x 6-10 mm, about equalling calyx, broadly ovate-cordate, incise-dentate. Calyx c. 6 mm, with a ring of hairs inside. Corolla c. 6 mm, white with red lines on the lips. Dry, saline soils. • S.E. Spain (near Almeria). Hs.