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Identification
Salvia dentata Aiton [family LAMIACEAE ]
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Flora

Entry for SALVIA dentata Ait. [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 dentata Ait. [family LABIATAE], Hort. Kew. ed. 1, i. 37;—Vahl, Enum. i. 232; Roem. et Schult. Syst. i. 217, and Mant. i. 181; A. Dietr. Sp. Pl. i. 264; Benth. Lab. 217, and in DC. Prodr. xii. 275.
SALVIA angustifolia Salisb. [family LABIATAE], Prodr. 73.
SALVIA rigida Thunb. [family LABIATAE], Prodr. 96, and Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 451.
SALVIA crispula Benth. [family LABIATAE], in E. Meyer, Comm. 234, and in DC. Prodr. xii. 274.
Information
a much-branched shrub; branches minutely grey-pubescent, often becoming glabrous; leaves usually crowded, petiolate or the upper subsessile, spathulate or obovate, sometimes lanceolate or linear, rounded or sometimes subacute, crenate-dentate to pinnatifid, rarely quite entire, often undulate-crisped, shortly grey-tomentose; blade 2–6 lin. long, 1–4 lin. broad; petiole 1–6 lin. long; whorls 2–6-flowered, close together or rather distant, in short terminal rarely branched racemes; bracts ovate or suborbicular; calyx broadly funnel-shaped, 5–7 lin. long, shortly hispid; upper lip shortly and broadly 3-lobed; lower lip broadly 2-lobed; lobes all rounded; corolla blue, 9–12 lin. long; tube 6 1/2 lin. long, 1 1/4 lin. broad at the base, 3 lin. broad at the apex, annular-pilose inside; upper lip 5–6 lin. long, shortly and broadly 2-lobed; lower lip 6–7 lin. long; median lobe transversely oblong, 6 1/2–7 lin. broad, deeply emarginate; lateral lobes 1 1/2–1 3/4 lin. broad, rounded. null
Distribution
CENTRAL REGION Calvinia Div.; Bokkeland, Thunberg!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Masson!WESTERN REGION Little Namaqualand; Modder Fontein, Whitehead! Mount Spektakel, Morris in Herb. Bolus, 5777! Uitkomst, 2000–3000 ft., Drège, 3113 a! between Pedros Kloof and Lily Fontein, 3000–4000 ft., Drège, 3113 b! near Klip Fontein, MacOwan & Bolus, Herb. Norm. Austr.-Afr. 681! Brackdamm, 2000 ft., Schlechter, 11161! and without precise locality, Wyley! Vanrhynsdorp Div.; Karee Bergen, 2000 ft., Schlechter, 8247!
Notes
Drège's specimen, 4742, from the Cederberg Range, Clanwilliam Division, cited by Bentham in E. Meyer, Comm. 235, and in DC. Prodr. xii. 275, has longer leaves than the type, and the teeth, when present, are more acute. It has no flowers.

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