Teucrium polium L. (Lamiaceae) is a polymorphic species, but I found this sample of plant very close also to Teucrium popovii R.A.King, it is found near Taif, Saudi Arabia..unfortunatelly I don't have the full botanical description of Teucrium popovii. Please help me in the identification of this species and provide me any text in matter.
I'm afarid that pictures are not fully suitable for exact identification, but you can see the holotype specimen of T.popovii:
http://plants.jstor.org/stable/history/10.5555/al.ap.specimen.bm000950541
Full description of T. popovii you can find here
http://www.europeana.eu/portal/record/08705/36FFBC49AF962C36F433BA1BD22C57A49EC89A92.html
http://bhle-dev-1.nhm.ac.uk/aip-preview/bookreader/index.php?var=../uk-rbge/NRBGEv24-46/Volume45/NRBGE_0045/NRBGE_0045_1988_0001#page/1/mode/1up
As for T. polium, this species is cosmopolitic, therefore so variable in morphotype.
I hope this will be helpful for you.
Dear Ammar,
it looks like T. polium. By the way, I need a voucher specimen to confirm identification. Could you provide it?
Regards,
Filippo
This plant is definitely not Teucrium popovii, but rather than T. polium L. (sensu stricto) is likely to be Teucrium capitatum L. The two species, and others of Teucrium sect. Polium, have often been confused and are difficult to tell apart even when one disposes of good specimens. The key and descriptions in Flora iberica (vol. 12) are the best you can use (see: http://bibdigital.rjb.csic.es/spa/Libro.php?Libro=6273).
This is clearly not Teucrium polium L., I think it's Teucrium popovii.
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