Elsholtzia eriostachya (Benth.) Benth.

Herbs annual. Stems 15-37 cm tall, purple-red, puber-ulent, unbranched or branched from base. Petiole 1.5-9 cm, densely fine villous; leaf blade oblong to ovate-oblong, 0.8-4 × 0.4-1.5 cm, herbaceous, apex subobtuse. finely villous, yellowish green, base broadly cuneate to rounded, margin serrulate to serrate-crenate. Spikes cylindric, (1-)1.5-5 × to 1 cm, terminal; verticillasters many flowered, basal 1-3 widely spaced; rachis densely pubescent; bracts broadly ovate, 1.5 mm, pilose abaxially, margin ciliate, apex mucronate. Pedicel to 1.5 mm, densely pubescent. Calyx campanulate, ca. 1.2 mm, densely yellowish moniliform villous; teeth triangular, subequal, ciliate; fruiting calyx tubular, ca. 4 × 1.5 mm. Corolla yellow, ca. 2 mm, puberulent outside, margin ciliate, tube funnelform, upper lip emarginate; lower lip ± patent, middle lobe larger. Nutlets brown, ellipsoid, ca. 1.4 mm. Fl. and fr. Jul-Sep.

Gansu, Sichuan, Xizang, Yunnan.

* Hilly grasslands; 3500-4100 m.

Aphanochilus eriostachyus Bentham, Pl. Asiat. Rar. 1: 29. 1830; Elsholtzia eriostachya var. pusilla (Bentham) J. D. Hooker; E. pusilla Bentham; Platyelasma eriostachyum (Bentham) Kitagawa; P. eriostachyum var. pusillum (Bentham) Kitagawa.

Elsholtzia eriostachya là một loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Hoa môi. Loài này được (Benth.) Benth. mô tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1833.

毛穗香薷（学名：Elsholtzia eriostachya）为唇形科香薷属下的一个种。