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Salvia stenophylla

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Identification
Salvia stenophylla Burch. ex Benth. [family LAMIACEAE ]
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Flora

Entry for SALVIA stenophylla Burch. ex Benth. [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 stenophylla Burch. ex Benth. [family LABIATAE], Lab. 306;—Benth. in E. Meyer, Comm. 238, and in DC. Prodr. xii. 353.
Information
an erect weak perennial much-branched herb, 1/2–1 1/2 ft. high; branches suberect, giving the plant a pyramidal form, often very slender, almost glabrous or usually with a few short stiff hairs, gland-dotted; leaves shortly petiolate or subsessile, linear to lanceolate-oblong, pinnatifid to pinnatisect, 1/2–4 (usually 1 1/2–2 1/2) in. long, 3/4–10 (usually 3–6) lin. broad, very sparingly shortly and stiffly hairy chiefly on the nerves beneath, densely gland-dotted; lateral lobes usually 6–12 each side, smallest towards the apex, subdeltoid to linear-oblong, 1/2–6 (usually 1 1/2–4) lin. long, about 3/4–1 1/2 lin. broad, subacute to rounded, denticulate, often crisped; whorls usually 6-flowered, distant, in slender racemes 3–7 in. long terminating the numerous branches; bracts ovate, acuminate, shorter than the calyx; pedicels about 1 lin. long; calyx tubular-campanulate, 2 1/4–2 3/4 lin. long, sparingly and minutely hispidly hairy, densely gland-dotted; upper lip 1–1 1/4 lin. long, with 3 short apiculate or acuminate teeth; lower lip 1–1 1/3 lin. long, bifid; teeth lanceolate-triangular, 2/3–1 lin. long, acute or acuminate; corolla blue or lilac, 4–5 lin. long; tube 2 1/2–3 1/4 lin. long, ventricose at the throat, annular-pilose inside about 1 lin. from the base; upper lip suborbicular, 1 1/4–1 1/2 lin. long and broad, slightly emarginate; lower lip 2–2 1/2 lin. long; median lobe transversely oblong, narrowed at the base, about 1 lin. long, 1 2/3 lin. broad, slightly emarginate; lateral lobes short, rounded. null
Distribution
CENTRAL REGION Graaff Reinet Div.; around Graaff Reinet, MacOwan, 995! Bolus, 734! Beaufort West Div.; between Beaufort West and Rhenoster Kop, 2500–3000 ft., Drège, 7946 a! Albert Div.; Stormberg Spruit, Burke, Colesberg Div.; Colesberg, Shaw!COAST REGION Uitenhage Div.; hills in Uitenhage Karroo, Prior! Fort Beaufort Div.; Kat River Poort, Drège, 7946 b! Ceded Territory (ex Bentham), Ecklon! Queenstown Div.; Queenstown, Cooper, 2893! plains near Queenstown, 3500 ft., Galpin, 1645! Imvane, Baur, 82! Shiloh, 3500 ft., Baur, 941!EASTERN REGION Natal; Weenen County, Wood, 3581! near Gourton, 4300 ft., Wood, 3631!KALAHARI REGION Griqualand West; Griqua Town, Burchell, 1881! Orange River Colony; Witte Bergen, Bowker, 658! Orange and Caledon Rivers, Burke! Mrs. Hutton! Harrismith, Sankey, 229! Bethlehem, Richardson! Bechuanaland; Batlapin Territory, Holub! Transvaal; Potchefstroom, Fry in Herb. Galpin, 6167! Burtt-Davy, 2707! Warm Bath, Burtt-Davy, 2607! Var. β: Bechuanaland; Batlapin Territory, Holub!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Zeyher, 1336!
Notes
Salvia xerobia, Briq. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. 2 me sér. iii. 1076, we have not seen. We suspect that it is the same as S. stenophylla, in which the calyx is never quite glabrous, and its teeth are more or less spinescent-acuminate. The plant is usually very freely branched.

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