Salvia muirii L.Bolus

Stiff twiggy erect shrub up to 0.3-0.6 m tall; stems with a dense indumentum of short eglandular hairs and gland-dots, eventually glabrescent. Leaves shortly petiolate; blade simple, thick-textured, obovate-elliptic, 6-13 x 3-8 mm, grey-velutinous with dense short appressed hairs on both surfaces, gland-dotted, apex rounded to obtuse or abruptly acute, base cuneate, margin entire. Inflorescence slender, lax below, with up to 7 verticils; verticils 2(-3)-flowered. Calyx densely and shortly antrorse pubescent, dotted with orange-red glands, ciliate on the margins, c. 10 mm long, not or slightly enlarging in fruit. Corolla blue with white throat, up to 26 mm long; tube 14-18 mm long; upper lip more or less straight, c. 8 mm long; lower lip as long as or longer than the upper.