Salvia brachyantha

Salvia brachyantha

 ssp brachyantha: Kazan şalbası; ssp tankutiana: Gönül şalbası

Perennial herb. Stems 30-50 cm from a woody rootstock, erect, quadran-gular, sparsely arachnoid-pilose, eglandular above and below, often purplish-blue or violet above. Leaves simple, ovate to linear oblong, 5-12 x 0.8-3.5 cm, rugulose, arachnoid-pilose, erose; petiole 2-8 cm. Inflorescence paniculate; verticillasters 2-8-flowered, distant. Bracts broadly ovate, acuminate, c. 12 x12 mm. Pedicels 2-3 mm, erecto-patent. Calyx tubular campanulate, c. 8-10 mm , to c. 13 mm in fruit, eglandular , sublanate, often violet; upper lip tri-dentate, median shorter, subulate. Corolla lilac to violet-blue, c. 12 mm; tube somewhat ventricose, subsquamulate; upper lip scarcely falcate. Stamens B. Nutlets rounded trigonous, ovoid, 4.5 x 3.5 mm. Fl. 5-6. Rocky igneous slopes, fallow fields, meadows, 1050-2800 m.
Soviet Armenia. N.W. Iran. Ir.-Tur. element. 
subsp. tankutiana
Perennial herbs with thick woody rootstocks. Stems solitary or several, erect, 15-50 cm tall, green to purple, sparsely eglandular arochnoid pilose with dense glandular pilose. Leaves simple, oblong to ovate, 3-12 x 2-6 cm, erose, arachnoid pilose with sessile glands, rugose; petiole 1.5-8 cm. Infl orescence axis widely paniculate, densely arachnoid pilose and glandular pilose. Verticillasters 2-8-fl owered, usually distant. Bracts broadly ovate-acuminate, green to purple, nearly 5-15 x 5-13 mm. Pedicels 2-3 mm. Calyces tubular campanulate, 6-10 mm, to 13 mm in fruit, purplish, densely eglandular arachnoid pilose and glandular pilose; teeth subulate; upper lip tridentate, median tooth much shorter. Corolla dark violet, 8-12 mm; tube nearly 6-8 mm, ventricose, squamulate; upper lip semi-falcate. Stamens B.
Endemic ssp