Salvia cilicica
Salvia cilicica
Narin galabor
Perennial herb. Stems erect, 40-85 cm, branched above and slender, pannose to ±lanate below, very shortly pilose with capitate glandular hairs above. Leaves simple, broadly ovate to orbicular, 3-9.5 x 3-11 cm, pannose, serrulate to subentire, cordate; petiole on lower leaves 1.5-7 cm, upper leaves sessile. Inflorescence paniculate, few-flowered; verticillasters 2-5-flowered, clearly distant. Bracts ovate-acuminate, c. 3 x 2.5 mm, Pedicels 1-2 mm. Calyx tubular-campanulate, striate, 7-8 mm, to c. 9 mm in fruit, shortly pilose with sessile glands; upper lip scarcely tridentate, recurved in fruit. Corolla lilac-white, 16-20 mm; tube c. 7 mm, ventricose, squamulate; upper lip clearly falcate. Stamens B. Nutlets rounded trigonous, ovoid, c. 2.7 x 2 mm. 2n = 22. Fl. 7-9. Limestone slopes, in phrygana, among Pinus, 750-2200 m.
Endemic.
