Salvia microphylla Kunth
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Salvia microphylla Kunth (1817)
Salvia microphylla Kunth
Nomenclature
Kunth
Kunth
1817
ICN
Salvia microphylla Kunth
species
Salvia microphylla
Classification
Subordinates
Synonyms
Descriptions
Salvia microphylla Kunth
Much branched, aromatic shrub to c. 1.5 m high, with short hairs, these dense on young parts. Petiole 1-3 cm long. Lamina to 9 × 5 cm, sometimes as small as 10 × 7.5 mm on flowering shoots, ovate, ovate-oblong or elliptic, grey-tomentose below, and hairs mainly confined to veins above, crenate-serrate, or crenulate-serrulate on smaller lvs; base cuneate to rounded; apex obtuse to acute. Infl. to 6 cm tall, densely clothed in glandular hairs; verticels usually of 2 fls; pedicels slender, often long; bracts small and caducous. Calyx 10-13 mm long, tubular-campanulate, glandular and puberulent, usually purplish above; upper lip slightly > lower; teeth c. ⅓ length of tube. Corolla 2-3 cm long, crimson; upper lip ± parallel to tube, hairy outside, especially towards apex; lower lip > upper. Stamens with long, broad, upper connective arms and much shorter filaments. Nutlets not seen.
Taxonomic concepts
Salvia grahamii Benth.
Salvia microphylla Kunth
Salvia microphylla Kunth
Salvia microphylla Kunth
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scientific name
Names_Plants
1 January 2000
1 September 2015