Salvia nilotica Juss. ex Jacq.
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Silver Mist cottage, near Troutbeck
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Silver Mist cottage, near Troutbeck
Photo: Bart Wursten
Silver Mist cottage, near Troutbeck
Photo: Bart Wursten
Silver Mist cottage, near Troutbeck
Photo: Bart Wursten
Silver Mist cottage, near Troutbeck
Photo: Bart Wursten
Silver Mist cottage, near Troutbeck
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Nyanga Rd nr Juliasdale
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Lake Kaulime, Nyika National Park
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Lake Kaulime, Nyika National Park
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Lake Kaulime, Nyika National Park
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Lake Kaulime, Nyika National Park
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Synonyms:
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Salvia abyssinica Jacq.
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Common names:
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Frequency:
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Status:
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Native |
Description:
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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:
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nilotica: from the valley of the Nile |
Habitat:
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In montane grassland, along margins of forest including pine plantations and along streams and rivers. |
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1200 - 2400 m |
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Worldwide distribution:
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DRC, Uganda, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia and Zimbabwe. |
Mozambique distribution:
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MS |
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Spot characters:
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Content last updated: |
Thursday 23 July 2015 |
Literature:
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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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Copyright: Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings and Meg Coates Palgrave 2007-22
Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. & Coates Palgrave, M.
(2022).
Flora of Mozambique: Species information: Salvia nilotica. https://www.mozambiqueflora.com/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=149450, retrieved 17 May 2022
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