Salvia garipensis E.Mey. ex Benth.

Much branched shrub 0.6-1.2 m tall; stems glandular-pubescent with longish eglandular hairs, dense short gland-tipped hairs and gland-dots. Leaves petiolate; blade thin-or thick-textured, ovate to ovate-deltoid or subrotund, 12-50 x 10-30 mm, green, glandular-hispid and gland-dotted, upper surface smooth to rugose, under-surface often markedly reticulate, apex obtuse to rounded, base rounded to cordate, margin irregularly eroso-dentate. Inflorescence of few to several verticils, spaced below, close together above; verticils 2(-4)-flowered. Calyx glandular-pubescent, enlarging to 16 mm long in fruit with widely spreading lips. Corolla white or pale blue to mauve, 20-25 mm long; tube c. 10 mm long; upper lip falcate, 10-15 mm long; lower lip subequal to or slightly shorter than the upper.