Stachys ilicifolius is a species of flowering plant in the family Lamiaceae. it is an annual native to Central Asia (Iran, Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, and Xinjiang).Flora of China Vol. 17 Page 194 矮刺苏 ai ci su Chamaesphacos ilicifolius Schrenk ex Fischer & C. A. Meyer, Enum. Pl. Nov. 1: 28. 1841
The species was first described as Chamaesphacos ilicifolius in 1841, and placed in the newly-described genus Chamaesphacos. Phylogenetic studies found that Chamaesphacos was embedded in the large genus Stachys,Zhao, F., Chen, YP., Salmaki, Y. et al. An updated tribal classification of Lamiaceae based on plastome phylogenomics. BMC Biology 19, 2 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12915-020-00931-z and in 2021 Alexander Nikolaevitsch Sennikov placed the species there as Stachys ilicifolius.
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