Salvia macrosiphon Boiss.

Rosetted low shrub ; up to 75 cm tall , aromatic with a lemony small when crushed . Stems few to several from a woody rootstock , erect , quadrangular , purple below , green above , branched from the base , white eglandular pilose below , shortly glandular and with sessile oil globules above . Leaves 6-14 x 1 . 5-8 cm , opposite , few , mostly clustered basally , grey-green , elliptic to ovate-oblong , base cuneate , apex acute , margins entire to irregularly serrate , white-pubescent with eglandular hairs and oil globules on the undersurface , rugose on the upper surface ; petioles up to 10 cm . Inflorescences a widely branched panicle , verticils 2–6-flowered , distantly placed along the stems ; bracts broadly ovate ; pedicels 2 mm , erect to spreading in fruit . Flowers white ; calyx grey-green , tubular , 14-17 mm , elongating slightly in fruit , 2-lipped , distinctly ribbed , pubescent with capitate glandular hairs and oil globules ; teeth spinulose ; corolla white , 2-lipped , 20-25 mm ; upper lip ± falcate , lower lip 3-lobed , shorter than the ... upper lip . Fruit nutlets , c . 2 . 8 x 2 . 3 mm , broad ovoid , shiny , brown with darker venation , mucilaginous on wetting ( ? ) . (Ref . Flora of Oman ; vol . 3) .

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Not Evaluated (NE)

Not Common

Salvia kotschyi Boiss.
Salvia macrosiphon var. kotschyi (Boiss.) Boiss.