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Salvia coccinea

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Name

Identification
Salvia coccinea Buc'hoz ex Etl. [family LAMIACEAE ]
Related name
  • Salvia coccinea
Common name
  • sauge coccinée; sauge écarlate; sauge du Mexique., Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3
  • scarlet sage; scarlet-flowered sage., Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3

Flora

Entry for SALVIA coccinea Juss. ex Murr. [family LABIATAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 5, page 226, (1912) Author: By N. E. BROWN, T. COOKE and S. A. SKAN.
Names
SALVIA coccinea Juss. ex Murr. [family LABIATAE], Comm. Gotting. i. (1778) 86, t. 1, and Linn. f. Suppl. 88.
Notes
is a native of Tropical America, and has been introduced into many warm countries. Specimens collected by Mund in South Africa and by Burtt-Davy (no. 2724) from Swaziland, “an escape,” are in the Kew Herbarium; it has a herbaceous canescent-puberulous stem, ovate petiolate acute crenate leaves, a striate calyx with short broad acute teeth, and a bright red long-exserted corolla.

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