Salvia broussonetii

Broussonetii Salvia is a plant of the genus sage (Salvia ) and belongs to the mint family ( Lamiaceae).

Features

Salvia broussonetii is a small shrub, reaching the heights of growth up to 1 meter. The whole plant is sticky. The leaves are broadly heart- shaped, to 30 cm long, white hairs and serrated irregular. Your top is green and annoying network. The inflorescences are usually branched. The bracts have an ovoid been translated Spitzchen. The flowers are ( pink ) colored white. They have no hair on the inside ring. The calyx is campanulate or Roehrig. The upper lip is tridentate. The teeth are upright tilt hardly together. The middle tooth can often be very small.

Occurrence

Salvia broussonetii is endemic to the Canary Island of Tenerife. You get there before at altitudes up to 400 meters.

System

The first description by the British botanist George Bentham was in his work Labiatarum Genera et Species ( fascicle 3, p 227) published in 1833.

Documents

Adalbert Hohenester, Walter of Wels: Excursion Flora of the Canary Islands. With views of all Macaronesia. Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 1993, ISBN 3-8001-3466-7.

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