Salvia (subsect. Perennes) Hu et al. 2018
Creators: name: Wei, Yukun K
name: Pendry, Colin A
name: Huang, YanBo
name: Ge, BinJie
name: Xiao, HanWen
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Lamiales
Lamiaceae
Salvia

description: Key to the Chinese species of the short-connective and big-flower group of  Salvia subsect. Perennes   
1a. Corolla straight or curving slightly upwards, tube almost equally wide at middle and mouth ____________________________________________________________________________ 2  
1b. Corolla curving upwards, sometimes somewhat S-shaped, much wider at mouth than in the middle ______________________________________________________________________ 9  
2a. Connective less than 1/2 the length of the filament _________________________________ 3  
2b. Connective more than 1/2 the length of the filament ________________________________ 4  
 3a. Corolla blue _________________________________________________________ S. prattii Hemsl.   
 3b. Corolla white to cream ____________________________________________ S. potaninii Krylov   
4a. Corolla length shorter than 3 cm ___________________________________________________ 5  
4b. Corolla length longer than 3 cm ____________________________________________________ 6  
 5a. Leaves ovate with cordate base, pubescent above. Corolla curving slightly upwards, blue to white ________________________________________________ S. himmelbaurii E.Peter   
 5b. Leaves circular-cordate to ovate-cordate, villous above. Corolla straight, purple to pale purple _____________________________________________________ S. paohsingensis C.Y.Wu   
 6a. Calyx campanulate. Corolla blue ____________________________________________ S. wardii   
6b. Calyx tubular-campanulate. Corolla yellow or deep purple to light purple ____________ 7  
 7a. Corolla yellow. Leaf orbicular _____________________________ S. maximowicziana Hemsl.   
7b. Corolla blue to purple. Leaf cordate to narrowly cordate ____________________________ 8  
 8a. Inflorescence dense with short internodes, densely villose. Corolla deep purple S. dolichantha   
 8b. Inflorescence relatively lax, pubescent. Corolla pale blue-purple to light purple S. subviolacea   
9a. Plant 20–30 cm tall and usually unbranched. Corolla curving upwards _____________ 10  
9b. Plant 30–60 cm tall, branched. Corolla curving upwards, somewhat S-shaped ______ 11  
 10a. Leaf elliptic. Corolla pale purple or pink _______________________________ S. aerea H.Lév.   
 10b. Leaf ovate. Corolla white to pale yellow ________________________ S. cyclostegia E.Peter   
11a. Leaf tomentose __________________________________________________________________ 12  
11b. Leaf sparsely pubescent __________________________________________________________ 13  
 12a. Corolla pale yellow. Leaf oblong _________________________________ S. digitaloides Diels   
 12b. Corolla purple, pale purple or purplish red. Leaf broadly lanceolate, hastate or ovate S. przewalskii 13a. Cauline leaves present __________________________________________ S. atrorubra C.Y.Wu   
13b. Leaves all basal __________________________________________________________________ 14  
 14a. Bracts prominent, orbicular. Inflorescence compacted, usually green S. kiaometiensis H.Lév.   
 14b. Bracts small, lanceolate. Inflorescence lax, usually purple __________ S. castanea Diels.
description: Published as part of Wei, Yukun K, Pendry, Colin A, Huang, YanBo, Ge, BinJie & Xiao, HanWen, 2021, SALVIA SUBVIOLACEA, A NEW SPECIES FROM THE HIMALAYAS-HENGDUAN MOUNTAINS, CHINA, pp. 1-9 in Edinburgh Journal of Botany 78 (334) on pages 8-9, DOI: 10.24823/EJB.2021.334, http://zenodo.org/record/10590955