Salvia reflexaHornem. [family LABIATAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
Salvia pauciflora
Salvia reflexa
Flora
Entry for Salvia reflexa [family LAMIACEAE]
Herbarium
South African National Biodiversity Institute, Compton Herbarium, Cape Town (SAM)
Collection
Flora of Southern Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of South Africa, (2003) Author: Dr J.P. Roux
Names
Salvia reflexa [family LAMIACEAE]
Information
Annual erect free-flowering herb 0,5—0,75 m tall; stems usually solitary, branched above, greyish tomentose, glab-rescent. Leaves shortly petiolate; blade lanÂceolate to linear-lanceolate, 30—60 x 5—8 mm, grey-green, soft, subglabrous above, tomentulose and gland-dotted beneath, apex obtuse, base attenuate, margin suben-tire to remotely and shallowly toothed. Inflorescence lax, of several to many 2(—3)-flowered verticils. Calyx deeply bilabÂiate, minutely hispidulous, ribbed, enlarÂging to 6 mm long in fruit; upper lip entire. Corolla blue, 5—6 mm long.
Use
25. Salvia reflexa Hornem., Enum. PI. Hort. Hafn. 1: 34 (1807); Steyermark, Fl. Missouri 1288 (1963); Correll & Johnson, Man. Vase. PI. Texas 1369 (1970); Hedge in Notes R. bot. Gdn Edinb. 33: 115 (1974). Type: from the U.S.A.
Range
A weed of waste places first recorded from Pretoria and Krugersdorp in 1971, since collected from several localities in the Witwatersrand and Rustenburg areas, suggesting that it is already widely distributed; also common around Roma, Lesotho, where it has been seen for several years. Indigenous in the United States and Mexico and also introduced into tropical Africa.
