Salvia macrochlamys

Gevrek şalba

Perennial herb. Stems many, 30-50 cm, procumbent, branched above, leafy, densely glandular-villous. Leaves simple, ovate to elliptic, 4-7 x 2-4 cm, cordate or rounded, crenulate to serrulate, glandular-pilose, and with few sessile glands; petiole 2-4 cm. Inflorescence shortly paniculate or not; verticillasters 2-flowered, approximating. Bracts ± enclosing flowers, ovate to ovate-oblong, 30-40 x 15-20 mm, membranous, prominently veined, greenish-white. Calyx tubular-ovate, c. 20 mm, glandular villous; upper lip tridentate, acuminate. Corolla pink or white, lower lip flecked or all violet, c. 35 mm; tube straight below, widening above, annulate; upper lip ± straight, truncate. Stamens A. Nutlets rounded trigonous, broadly ovate, c. 5 x 4 mm. Fl. 6-8. Rocky limestone slopes, open slopes in Quercus scrub, 900-2300 m.

N. Iraq, N.W. Iran. Ir.-Tur. element.