Salvia dentata Aiton

Species

Angiosperms > Lamiales > Lamiaceae > Salvia

Characteristics

Twiggy erect shrub 0.6-1.5(-2) m tall; stems greyish-tomentulose, gland-dotted. Leaves often crowded, shortly petiolate; blade simple, thick-textured, spathulate or obovate to narrowly elliptic or lanceolate, 8-22 x 4-12 mm, greenish above, densely greyish-tomentulose beneath, gland-dotted, rarely almost glabrous, apex obtuse, base cuneate, margin usually crenate-dentate to pinnatifid. Inflorescence of 2-9 spaced or crowded verticils; verticils 2-6-flowered. Calyx somewhat funnel-shaped, hispid and usually copiously red gland-dotted, occasionally hispid-villous, expanding to c. 15 mm long in fruit. Corolla light blue or whitish to violet-blue or purple, 16-25 mm long; tube 8-10 mm long; upper lip slightly falcate, 8-12 mm long; lower lip usually longer than the upper.
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Like S. africana-caerulea and S. chamelaeagnea but leaves usually grey-hairy and toothed to pinnatifid and calyx shortly hairy and gland-dotted.
Like S. africana-caerulea but leaves usually grey-hairy and toothed to pinnatifid and calyx shortly hairy and gland-dotted.
Life form perennial
Growth form shrub
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination -
Spread -
Mature width (meter) 0.5 - 1.0
Mature height (meter) 0.8 - 1.5
Root system -
Rooting depth (meter) -
Root diameter (meter) -
Flower color
Blooming months -
Fruit color -
Fruiting months -
Nitrogen fixer -
Photosynthetic pathway -

Environment

Light 4-9
Soil humidity 10-12
Soil texture 7-8
Soil acidity 2-8
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) 9-10

Usage

Uses medicinal
Edible -
Therapeutic use -
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Can be grown by cuttings or divisions. Seeds needs stratification.
Mode cuttings divisions
Germination duration (days) 10 - 14
Germination temperacture (C°) 20 - 26
Germination luminosity -
Germination treatment stratification
Minimum temperature (C°) -
Optimum temperature (C°) -
Size -
Vigor -
Productivity -

Distribution

Salvia dentata world distribution map, present in Namibia and South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:456091-1
WFO ID wfo-0000300848
COL ID 6XH89
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
Wikipedia (EN) Link
Wikipedia (FR)

Synonyms

Salvia angustifolia Salvia dentata Salvia rigida Salvia crispula