Teucrium sect. Polium, Linnaeus, 1753

Ecevit-Genç, Gülay, Özcan, Taner & Dirmenci, Tuncay, 2017, Nutlet and leaf micromorphology in some Turkish species of Teucrium L. (Lamiaceae), Phytotaxa 312 (1), pp. 71-82 : 75

Teucrium sect. Polium

The nutlets do not have any hairs and their ornamentation has foveate fields. The leaves of T. polium Linnaeus (1753:566) are densely covered A2, B and branched O type trichomes. The leaves of T. montanum Linnaeus (1753:565) have covered by B and I type trichomes ( Figs. 2 , 5 and Table 2).

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FIGURE 2. SEM micrographs of the nutlets of Turkish Teucrium: T. chamaedrys subsp. tauricola (a), T. chamaedrys subsp. syspirense (b), T. chamaedrys subsp. sinuatum (c), T. divaricatum subsp. divaricatum (d), T. divaricatum subsp. graecum (e), T. flavum subsp. hellenicum (f), T. leucophyllum (g), T. microphyllum (h), T. montanum (i), T. polium (j) (scale bar = 200 μm).

FIGURE 5. SEM micrographs of the leaves of Teucrium T. chamaedrys subsp. tauricola (a), T. chamaedrys subsp. syspirense (b), T. chamaedrys subsp. sinuatum (c), T. divaricatum subsp. divaricatum (d), T. divaricatum subsp. graecum (e), T. flavum subsp. hellenicum (f), T. leucophyllum (g), T. microphyllum (h), (i), T. montanum (j) (scale bar= 100 μm).