Meehania pinfaensis (H. Lév.) Y. Z. Sun ex C. Y. Wu

Herbs annual. Stems ca. 50 cm, slender, erect, unbranched, pubescent or retrorse pubescent when young, glabrescent, villous on nodes. Petiole 0.4-2.5 cm, shorter toward stem apex; leaf blade narrowly lanceolate to lanceolate, sometimes slightly curved, 6-12 × 1.2-2.5 cm, papery, puberulent, base rounded to subtruncate, margin sparsely serrulate or undulate-serrulate, apex acuminate. Verticillasters 2-flowered, in upper axils; bracts lanceolate, less than 2.5 cm, margin dentate or subentire. Pedicel 1-4 mm. Calyx tubular, slightly open at mouth, ca. 1.2 cm, puberulent, saccate in fruit; teeth triangular-ovate to subtriangular, ca. 5 mm, apex acuminate, adaxial teeth longer. Corolla red or purple, 2.5-4 cm, pubescent; tube straight or slightly curved, gradually dilated beyond middle; upper lip straight, oblate, apex emarginate; middle lobe of lower lip flabellate, apex emarginate, pilose; lateral lobes oblong, ca. 1/2 as long as middle lobe. Nutlets ovoid-oblong, adaxially slightly triquetrous, densely pubescent, base small umbonate. Fl. May-Jul, fr. Jul-Aug.

* Forested hillsides. Guizhou.

Dracocephalum pinfaense H. Léveillé, Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 8: 422. 1910; D. esquirolii H. Léveillé; D. urticifolium (Miquel) Makino var. angustifolium (Dunn) Handel-Mazzetti.