''Phlomoides eremostachydioides'' is a species of

flowering plant Flowering plants are plants that bear flowers and fruits, and form the clade Angiospermae (). The term angiosperm is derived from the Ancient Greek, Greek words (; 'container, vessel') and (; 'seed'), meaning that the seeds are enclosed with ...

in the mint family,

Lamiaceae The Lamiaceae ( ) or Labiatae are a family (biology), family of flowering plants commonly known as the mint, deadnettle, or sage family. Many of the plants are aromatic in all parts and include widely used culinary herbs like basil (herb), ba ...

. It is a

subshrub A subshrub (Latin ''suffrutex'') or undershrub is either a small shrub (e.g. prostrate shrubs) or a perennial that is largely herbaceous but slightly woody at the base (e.g. garden pink and florist's chrysanthemum). The term is often interch ...

endemic Endemism is the state of a species being found only in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also foun ...

to the

Karatau Mountains The Karatau or Qaratau (, ) is a mountain range located in southern Kazakhstan. The mountains have deposits of phosphorite, lead, and zinc. Name () is Kazakh for the "Black Mountain" or "Mountain Range". The English name derives from accoun ...

Kazakhstan Kazakhstan, officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a landlocked country primarily in Central Asia, with a European Kazakhstan, small portion in Eastern Europe. It borders Russia to the Kazakhstan–Russia border, north and west, China to th ...

in central Asia. The species was first described as ''Pseudomarrubium eremostachydioides'' by

Mikhail Grigorevich Popov Mikhail Grigorevich Popov () (5(17) April, 1893 – 18 December, 1955) was a Soviet botanist. He is known for developing a theory on the role of hybridization in plant evolution, and studying the flora of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. Ep ...

in 1940, and placed in the

monotypic genus In biology, a monotypic taxon is a taxonomic group (taxon) that contains only one immediately subordinate taxon. A monotypic species is one that does not include subspecies or smaller, infraspecific taxa. In the case of genera, the term "unispe ...

''Pseudomarrubium''. A phylogenetic analysis published in 2023 concluded that the species belonged in genus ''

Phlomoides ''Phlomoides'', also called Jerusalem sage and Lampwick plant, is a genus of over 130 species of flowering plants in the family Lamiaceae, native from the eastern Mediterranean Basin through Eastern Europe, western and central Asia, and the Indi ...

''.Yue Zhao, Ya-Ping Chen, Jing-Chen Yuan, Alan J. Paton, Maxim S. Nuraliev, Fei Zhao, Bryan T. Drew, Yasaman Salmaki, Orzimat T. Turginov, Miao Sun, Alexander N. Sennikov, Xiang-Qin Yu, Bo Li, Chun-Lei Xiang (2023). Museomics in Lamiaceae: Resolving the taxonomic mystery of ''Pseudomarrubium''. ''Current Plant Biology'', Volumes 35–36, 2023, 100300, ISSN 2214-6628, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpb.2023.100300.

References

Lamiaceae Endemic flora of Kazakhstan Plants described in 1940 {{Lamiaceae-stub