TY - JOUR ID - 125621 TI - A new species of Nepeta from Takht-e-Sulaiman, Pakistan JO - The Iranian Journal of Botany JA - IJB LA - en SN - 1029-788X AU - Sultan, Amir AU - Khan, Nazar AU - Khan, Tahir AU - Jamzad, Ziba AD - National Herbarium (Stewart Collection), Bio-Resources Conservation Institute, PARC-National Agricultural Research Centre, Islamabad, Pakistan AD - Department of Botany, Government Degree College, Zhob, Baluchistan, Pakistan AD - Department of Botany, Government Girls Degree College, Zhob, Baluchistan, Pakistan AD - Research Institute of Forests and Rangelands, PO. Box 13185-116, Tehran, Iran Y1 - 2021 PY - 2021 VL - 27 IS - 2 SP - 84 EP - 92 KW - Nepeta sulaimanica KW - section Spicatae KW - Lamiaceae KW - Takht-e-Sulaiman KW - Pakistan DO - 10.22092/ijb.2021.355886.1339 N2 - Nepeta is the largest genus in the family Lamiaceae in the flora of Pakistan, represented by 49 species, including 9 endemics. The genus is mainly distributed in Gilgit-Baltistan, Kashmir, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Baluchistan, northern and western Punjab. A new species of Nepeta from section Spicatae, Nepeta sulaimanica is described and illustrated from Takht-e-Sulaiman in Sulaiman Mountain Range, Pakistan. The new species is characterized by spike-like inflorescence, 25 mm long blue corolla, with tube long exerted from the calyx and middle lobe of the lower lip dropping, bilobed, with entire lobules; nutlet surface smooth. Nepeta sulaimanica is compared with the closely related species, N. laevigata, which has a different indumentum, larger leaf size, longer petiole, and shorter corolla. UR - https://ijb.areeo.ac.ir/article_125621.html L1 - https://ijb.areeo.ac.ir/article_125621_0e3c8bac747bae61e7a56532b8398187.pdf ER -