Stachys pinardii is a perennial herb with fragile stems growing on the walls, roof and floor of calcareous caverns and vertical faces in Antalya with an altitude of 20–350 m.
It is a long-hairy plant, with large, oval, broad-toothed leaves, and with medium-spaced (3(-6) cm apart) whorls of white flowers set along flowering stems that from the limestone walls and roofs tend to hang downwards. There are generally 4-10 flowers per whorl, distinguishing it from the similar Stachys buttleri of the Upper Düden Waterfalls which generally has 2 per whorl. Rather eastward at Içel there is a similar Stachys pseudopinardii with laxer whorls (1–9.5 cm apart) which lacks the hair-ring within the flower tube that S. pinardii possesses and has larger nutlets (3-3.5 mm) than S. pinardii (2.5 mm) [2]
As a regional-endemic known from a limited number of places, it is classed as VU (Vulnerable).[2]
Photographic details can be seen on iNaturalist.
