Salvia albicaulis Benth.

Shrub or woody herb 0.3-0.6 m (or more) tall, branched from the base; stems erect, rather sparingly branched, sharply 4-angled, densely and shortly tomentose with, in addition, occasional long multicellular hairs. Leaves petiolate; blade simple, coriaceous, obovate-spathulate or obovate to broadly elliptic, 15-30 x 8-20 mm, subglabrous and somewhat varnished to shortly hispid above, reticulate and white-tomentose between the veins below, the veins often with short or long hispid hairs, apex subacute to rounded, base cuneate, margin crenate-dentate to irregularly and occasionally pinnately lobed. Inflorescence a panicle 70-200 mm long; verticils lax to fairly dense, 2-3-flowered. Calyx densely villous with long white hairs mainly along the nerves, 10-12 mm long, scarcely expanding in fruit. Corolla purplish, 18-24 mm long; tube 8-12 mm long; upper lip falcate, 10-12 mm long; lower lip about 10 mm long.