Salvia nilotica Juss. ex Jacq.

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Silver Mist cottage, near Troutbeck

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Synonyms:	Salvia abyssinica Jacq.
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Status:	Native
Description:	Strongly aromatic perennial herb up to 1.2 m tall. Leaves opposite along the stems and branches and also in a basal rosette; lower leaves petiolate and often irregularly lobed, elliptic to obovate, 5-16 cm long, with sessile glands and hairy on both surfaces, more densely so on the veins beneath; upper leaves sessile, smaller and often not or hardly lobed. Flowers in up to 15 6-8-flowered verticels, distant below but becoming closer together above. Calyx often brownish or purplish, 6-10 mm long, strongly ribbed, hairy and glandular. Corolla bluish, purplish, pink or white, 8-12 mm long.
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Derivation of specific name:	nilotica: from the valley of the Nile
Habitat:	In montane grassland, along margins of forest including pine plantations and along streams and rivers.
Altitude range:	1200 - 2400 m
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Worldwide distribution:	DRC, Uganda, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
Mozambique distribution:	MS
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Content last updated:	Thursday 23 July 2015
Literature:	Burrows, J.E. & Willis, C.K. (eds) (2005). Plants of the Nyika Plateau Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 31 SABONET, Pretoria Page 191. (Includes a picture). Chapano, C. & Mamuto, M. (2003). Plants of the Chimanimani District National Herbarium and Botanic Garden, Zimbabwe Page 48. Mapaura, A. & Timberlake, J. (eds) (2004). A checklist of Zimbabwean vascular plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 33 Sabonet, Pretoria and Harare Page 57. Paton, A.J. et al. (2013). Lamiaceae Flora Zambesiaca 8(8) Pages 88 - 89. (Includes a picture).

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