Salvia staminea
Salvia staminea
Erkek şalba
Perennial herb. Stems erect, 30-50 cm, branched above, with a variable indumentum, from pilose to villous-glandular above. Leaves distributed over stem or rosette-forming, linear-ob1ong to ovate, 4-13 x 2.5-6 cm, shortly tomentose, subentire to erose; petiole 2-9 crn, Verticillasters 2-6-flowered, approximating above. Bracts broadly ovate, c. 4-12 x 5-8 mm. Pedicels c. 2 mm. Calyx tubular-campanulate, c. 6-7, mm to c. 10 mm in fruit, yellowish-green or with violet blue striations, densely glandular with or without long flattened eglandular hairs; upper lip tridentate, equal to or shorter than lower. Corolla white to pale yellow, 12-14 mm; tube ventricose, squamulate; upper lip ±straight, narrow. Stamens much exserted, connectives 12 mm type B. Nutlets ovoid, c. 2 x 1.8 mm. Fl. 5-8. Limestone and igneous rocky slopes, in Quercus scrub, cliffs, screes, alpine meadows, 1700-3150 m.
Soviet Armenia, Georgia, N. & N.W.Iran. Ir.-Tur. element.
