Salvia poculata
Salvia poculata
Küllü şalba
Perennial herb. Stems erect, 25-50 cm, branched above, glandular-pilose below, densely glandular-pilose to villous above. Leaves simple, ovate to oblong, 6-15 x 3-6.5 cm, arachnoid floccose , crenate to erose; petiole 2.5-8.5 cm. Inflorescence paniculate; verticillasters 2-8-flowered, clearly distant. Bracts broadly ovate to ± semicircular, abruptly acuminate, 17-22 x 20-25 mm. Pedicels 1-3.5 mm, erecto-patent. Calyx obtriangular, 8-10 mm, sometimes tinged purplish, glandular-villous, to c. 14 mm in fruit and broadening; upper lip tridentate, median tooth clearly shorter than laterals. Corolla white or pale lilac, 12-16 mm; tube ± straight, c. 6 mm, squamulate, ventricose above; upper lip scarcely falcate. Stamens B. Nutlets rounded trigonous, ± spherical, c. 4.5 x 4 mm. Fl. 5-7. Rocky limestone and igneous slopes, sloping meadows, nr melting snow, 1400-2900 m.
N. Iraq, N.W. Iran. Ir .-Tur. element. Recognised by the large bracts enfolding the verticillasters and the obtriangular calyces.
