Salvia blepharochlaena
Salvia blepharochlaena
Hoş şalba
Perennial herb, woody at base. Stems ascending-erect, 10-30 cm, densely glandular-villous, clothed at base with petiolar remains. Leaves mostly basal, pinnatisect, oblong in outline, glandular-villous, with 3-5 pairs of lateral segments; terminal segment oblong-elliptic, serrate to serrulate, sessile, 10-12 x 45 mm; petiole to 25 mm. Verticillasters 4-6-flowered, ± distant. Bracts of median verticillasters broadly ovate, c. 3 x 2 cm, cordate. Pedicels 0-1 mm. Calyx broadly infundibular, 20-24 mm, green or purplish-Suffused, to c. 26 x 25 mm in fruit, with divergent lips, densely glandular-villous; upper lip subentire or indistinctly 3-toothed. Corolla white with a pale yellow upper lip and violet veined labellum, 40-50 mm; tube to 30 mm, broad, annulate. Stamens A. Nutlets very rounded trigonous, broadly obovate, c. 4.5 x 3.5 mm. Fl. 6-7. Limestone and serpentine slopes, 1000-1620 m
Endemic. Ir.-Tur. element.
