Salvia digitaloides Diels
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Plants perennial. Stems 30-60 cm, densely villous. Leaves usually basal; petiole 6-8 cm; leaf blade oblong-elliptic, 3.5-11 × 2-5 cm, base rounded to cordate, margin crenate, apex obtuse to rounded. Verticillasters 4-6-flowered, 3-8 in terminal racemes or panicles ca. 13 cm; rachis densely villous; bracts obovate to ovate. Pedicel 3-4 mm, densely villous. Calyx campanulate, 1-1.2 cm, ca. 1 cm wide when open, green, purple veined, villous; upper lip broadly triangular, 2-2.5 × 5.6 mm, apex 3-mucronate; lower lip slightly longer, teeth broadly triangular, apex acute. Corolla yellow with purplish spots, 3.3-3.5 cm, finely pilose; tube pilose annulate inside, exserted, ca. 2.4 cm, ca. 2.5 mm wide at base, gradually curved, dilated upward, to 1 cm wide at throat; upper lip oblong, ca. 8 × 7 mm; lower lip longer than upper, ca. 1.2 × 1.3 cm; middle lobe obcordate, to 1 cm wide; lateral lobes semicircular, ca. 4 mm wide. Stamens slightly exserted; filaments ca. 7 mm; connectives ca. 6 mm, arcuate, arms subequal. Style much exserted. Nutlets gray-black, obovoid, adaxially ribbed, ca. 4 × 2.5 mm. Fl. Apr-Jun.
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* Dry shady pine forests, grassy hillsides, valleys; 2300-3400 m.
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Salvia digitaloides is a herbaceous perennial shrub native to the Chinese provinces of Guizhou, Sichuan, and Yunnan, first collected by Scot botanist George Forrest and named by Friedrich Ludwig Emil Diels in Germany in 1912, from Forrest's specimens. In its native habitat it grows between 7,000-11,000 ft elevation in dry shady pine forests, in east-facing scrub oak forests, and on grassy hillsides and valleys. Uncommon in horticulture, seeds have been collected and plants displayed at Quarryhill Botanical Garden in Glen Ellyn, California. The plant is used medicinally in Yunnan.
Salvia digitaloides forms a 1-2 ft high and wide clump, with thick velvety looking oblong leaves that are rounded at the top and base, with the edges rolled slightly under, and with white veining on the underside. The soft yellow flowers are about 1 in long, on 6 in inflorescences, with 4-6 flowers in widely spaced whorls. The upper lip is broadly triangular, while the lower lip is longer and dusted with purple spots. The green calyx has purple veins, and every part of the plant is covered with long straight hairs.[1]
Notes[edit]
- ^ Clebsch, Betsy; Barner, Carol D. (2003). The New Book of Salvias. Timber Press. p. 98. ISBN 978-0-88192-560-9.
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Guizhou, Sichuan, Yunnan
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