Salvia microstegia
Salvia microstegia
Yağlambaç
Perennial herb with a woody rootstock. Stems few or several, erect, 20-100 cm, densely pilose-villous glandular, often eglandular lanate below. Leaves mostly basal, variable in size and shape, ovate to oblong, 7-17 x 3-8 cm, white or grey lanate, obtusely lobed or irregularly serrate, subcordate; petiole 3-16 cm. Inflorescence usually a widely spreading panicle, often. yellowish-green. Verticillasters 4-6-flowered, usually distant. Bracts variable, broadly ovate, 9-17 x 8-14 mm. Pedicels 2-5 mm. Calyx ± campanulate, 9-12 mm, to c. 11-14 mm in fruit, densely glandular with capitate glandular hairs and sessile glands; upper lip shortly tridentate, median tooth much shorter; lips ± equal. Corolla white, lip fading yellow, 17-30 mm; tube 5-8 mm, ventricose, squamu1ate; upper lip compressed, strongly falcate. Stamens B. Nutlets ovoid, c. 3 x 2.5 mm. 2n = 16. Fl. 6-8.. Rocky limestone and igneous slopes, screes, in Quercetum, Pinus woodland, fieldside; 970-3350 m .
Latakia, Lebanon. Ir.-Tur. element.
