Salvia schlechteri Briq.

Perennial herb up to 0.3 m tall, usually branched from a somewhat woody base; stems subglabrous or with some short stiff hairs and gland-dots. Leaves sessile or subsessile; blade finely pinnatifid or pinnatisect, 40-60 mm long, subglabrous, gland-dotted, with 4-6 pairs of short narrow irregularly dentate lateral segments 1 mm wide and a slightly larger terminal segment. Inflorescence of several to many verticils, spaced below, closer above; verticils 4-6-flowered. Calyx sparingly hispidulous, gland-dotted, c. 9 mm long. Corolla pale blue and white, up to 25 mm long; tube c. 14 mm long, widening to 8 mm wide at the throat; upper lip straight, 7-8 mm long; lower lip somewhat deflexed, 8-9 mm long.