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Synonyms: |
Salvia abyssinica Jacq. |
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Status: | Native |
Description: |
Strongly aromatic perennial herb up to 1.2 m tall. Leaves opposite along the stems and branches and also in a basal rosette; lower leaves petiolate and often irregularly lobed, elliptic to obovate, 5-16 cm long, with sessile glands and hairy on both surfaces, more densely so on the veins beneath; upper leaves sessile, smaller and often not or hardly lobed. Flowers in up to 15 6-8-flowered verticels, distant below but becoming closer together above. Calyx often brownish or purplish, 6-10 mm long, strongly ribbed, hairy and glandular. Corolla bluish, purplish, pink or white, 8-12 mm long. |
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Derivation of specific name: | nilotica: from the valley of the Nile |
Habitat: | In montane grassland, along margins of forest including pine plantations and along streams and rivers. |
Altitude range: (metres) | 1200 - 2400 m |
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Worldwide distribution: | DRC, Uganda, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia and Zimbabwe. |
Zimbabwe distribution: | C,E |
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Endemic status: | |
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Insects associated with this species: | |
Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
Images last updated: | Thursday 23 July 2015 |
Literature: |
Burrows, J.E. & Willis, C.K. (eds) (2005). Plants of the Nyika Plateau Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 31 SABONET, Pretoria Page 191. (Includes a picture). Chapano, C. & Mamuto, M. (2003). Plants of the Chimanimani District National Herbarium and Botanic Garden, Zimbabwe Page 48. Mapaura, A. & Timberlake, J. (eds) (2004). A checklist of Zimbabwean vascular plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 33 Sabonet, Pretoria and Harare Page 57. Paton, A.J. et al. (2013). Lamiaceae Flora Zambesiaca 8(8) Pages 88 - 89. (Includes a picture). |
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