Salvia przewalskii

Life-forms

Classification System: APG IV

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Cladus: Angiosperms
Cladus: Eudicots
Cladus: Core eudicots
Cladus: Asterids
Cladus: Lamiids
Ordo: Lamiales

Familia: Lamiaceae
Subfamilia: Nepetoideae
Tribus: Mentheae
Subtribus: Salviinae
Genus: Salvia
Subgenus: S. subg. Salvia
Sectio: S. sect. Eurysphace
Subsectio: S. subsect. Perennes
Series: S. ser. Digitaloidites
Species: Salvia przewalskii
Name

Salvia przewalskii Maxim., 1882
Synonyms

Heterotypic
Salvia tatsienensis Franch., Bull. Annuel Soc. Philom. Paris, sér. 8, 3: 150 (1891).
Salvia mandarinorum Diels, Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 29: 557 (1900).
Salvia thibetica H.Lév., Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 9: 219 (1911).
Salvia feddei H.Lév., Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 12: 532 (1913).
Salvia labellifera H.Lév., Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 12: 532 (1913).
Salvia przewalskii var. glabrescens E.Peter, Acta Horti Gothob. 9: 115 (1934).
Salvia przewalskii var. mandarinorum (Diels) E.Peter, Acta Horti Gothob. 9: 115 (1934).
Salvia przewalskii var. rubrobrunnea C.Y.Wu, Fl. Yunnanica 1: 662 (1977).
Salvia przewalskii var. alba X.L.Huang & H.W.Li, Acta Phytotax. Sin. 19: 245 (1981).
Salvia przewalskii f. albiflora Y.H.Wu, J. Wuhan Bot. Res. 23: 235 (2005).

Distribution
Native distribution areas:

Continental: Asia-Temperate
Regional: China
China North-Central, China South-Central, Tibet

References: Brummitt, R.K. 2001. TDWG – World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2nd Edition
References
Primary references

Maximowicz, C.J., 1882. Bulletin de l'Academie Imperiale des Sciences de Saint-Pétersbourg. St. Petersburg 27:526; Mélanges Biol. Bull. Phys.-Math. Acad. Imp. Sci. Saint-Pétersbourg 11:301. (Diagn. pl. nov. asiat.)
Additional references

Govaerts, R.H.A. 2003. World Checklist of Selected Plant Families Database in ACCESS: 1-216203. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. [unavailable for the public] Reference page.

Links

Govaerts, R. et al. 2022. Salvia przewalskii in World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2022 May 15. Reference page.
Hassler, M. 2022. Salvia przewalskii. World Plants: Synonymic Checklists of the Vascular Plants of the World In: Roskovh, Y., Abucay, L., Orrell, T., Nicolson, D., Bailly, N., Kirk, P., Bourgoin, T., DeWalt, R.E., Decock, W., De Wever, A., Nieukerken, E. van, Zarucchi, J. & Penev, L., eds. 2022. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life. Published online. Accessed: 2022 May 15. Reference page.
Tropicos.org 2022. Salvia przewalskii. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 15 May 2022.
International Plant Names Index. 2022. Salvia przewalskii. Published online. Accessed: May 15 2022.

Vernacular names
العربية: قصعين برزفالسكي
中文: 甘西鼠尾草

Salvia przewalskii is a herbaceous perennial plant native to the Chinese provinces of Gansu, Hubei, Sichuan, Xizang, and Yunnan, typically growing along stream banks, forest edges, among shrubs, and on granitic hillsides. It was described and named in 1881 by the Russian botanist Carl Maximowicz after the Russian explorer and botanist Nikolai Przhevalsky, who made several collecting trips to China in the 19th century. The plant is widely known throughout its native habitat for its medicinal properties.[1]

Salvia przewalskii forms a basal clump of yellow-green leaves 1 to 2 feet (30 to 61 cm) high and wide, with flowering stalks rising 3 feet (91.4 cm) above the plant. The 6-12 inch (15 to 30 cm) leaves, with long petioles, have distinct veins on the underside. The inflorescence is branched, with widely spaced whorls of flowers opening a few at once. The 1 inch (2.54 cm) flowers are fat, with an unusual purple-red or red-brown color. The calyx is hairy and glandular, red-brown and two-lipped. It is usually seen only in botanical gardens, though seeds have become available for gardeners since the 1980s.[1] Botanists have segregated the species into four varieties, distinguished by leaf shape and differences in the hairs covering the foliage.
Notes

Clebsch, Betsy; Barner, Carol D. (2003). The New Book of Salvias. Timber Press. p. 230. ISBN 978-0-88192-560-9.