Salvia indica
Salvia indica
Sultan şalba
Perennial herb. Stems to 150 cm, erect, branched above, sparsely eglandular-pilose below, glandular-pilose above. Leaves simple, broadly ovate, truncate, to 30 x 23 cm, reticulate, erose-dentate, eglandular-pilose especially on veins; petiole to c. 10 cm; cauline leaves ±sessile. Verticillasters 4-6-flowered, distant. Bracts c. 8 x 6 mm, ovate-acuminate. Pedicels 2-4 mm, erect. Calyx campanulate, c. 10 x 7 mm, truncate at apex, densely glandular-villous, slightly broadening in fruit; upper lip shortly tridentate, teeth mucronate, connivent. Corolla c. 30 mm; upper lip lilac, lower lip dark violet, strongly compressed laterally; tube whitish, short, squamulate within, abruptly ventricose above. Stamens B. Nutlets rounded-trigonous, ovate, c. 4.5 x 3.5 mm. Fl. 4-5. Rocky limestone slopes, 100-1500 m.
Palestine, N. Iraq, W. Iran. Ir-Tur, element.
