Compilation
Salvia merjamie

Perennial herb with a woody root, up to 0.5 m tall (in Somalia). Leaves mostly distributed on the stem; basal leaves short- to long-petiolate; stem leaves shortly petiolate to sessile; blade oblong, elliptic or ovate, simple or ± pinnatisect, up to 40–100 × 4–25 mm, bullate above, apex rounded to acuminate, margin irregularly crenate. Cymes (1–)3-flowered; bracteoles absent. Fruiting calyx 7–10 mm long; upper lip subacute and lobed at the ultimate apex, with 0.3–0.5 mm long incurved lateral lobes and a minute central lobe; lower lip with lanceolate c. 3.5 mm long lobes. Corolla bluish violet, purple or white, 8–12 mm long, or much smaller in female and/or cleistogamous flowers; upper lip slightly falcate, as long as or sometimes longer than lower lip; lower lip with a saccate midlobe. Stamen filaments c. 2 mm long; lower thecae sterile, hatchet-shaped; connectives c. 10 mm long. Nutlets 1.8–2.5 × 1.3–1.5 mm, brown, often minutely tuberculate, producing mucilage when wet.