Salvia santolinifolia Boiss.

Aromatic , low shrub , with twisted woody basal stems ; up to 30 cm tall . Stems erect to ascending , quadrangular , much branched from the base , leafy , with retrorse short eglandular interspersed with long eglandular hairs , glandular above and with ± oil globules . Leaves opposite , 5-10 x 2-3 mm , grey-green , ± sessile , oblong in outline with a sinuate-convolute margins , pinnatifid , base cuneate , apex obtuse , white-pubescent with eglandular and glandular hairs and yellow or orange oil globules on the undersurface . Inflorescences (verticils) 1–2- flowered , distantly placed along the stems but usually in the upper part ; bracts elliptic , acute ; pedicels 1 . 5 mm , elongating and recurved in fruit . Flowers mauve , pink to lilac often with darker markings , 5-6 mm ; calyx grey-green , 5-6 mm , campanulate , 2-lipped , densely pubescent with long eglandular spreading hairs and shorter capitate glanular hairs and sessile glands ; upper lip of acuminate spinulose teeth ; corolla pink to lilac to pale violet with darker mottling ... on lip , 2-lipped , 5-6 mm ; upper lip ± straight , lower lip 3-lobed , longer than the upper with the central lobe larger than the laterals ; stamens 2 ; filaments short ; staminodes present . Fruit nutlets , c . 1 . 5 x l mm , black , smooth , ovoid-trigonous , mucilaginous on wetting ( ? ) . (Ref . Flora of Oman ; vol . 3) .

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Not Evaluated (NE)

Not Common

Pleudia santolinifolia (Boiss.) M.Will, N.Schmalz & Class.-Bockh.