Salvia coccinea
MH233 : Salvia coccinea Buc'hoz ex Etl.
| Plant Category | : | Herbs |
| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. | : | 429 |
| Synonym | : | Horminum coccineum (Buc'hoz ex Etl.) Moench;
Salvia ciliata Benth., nom. illeg.;
Salvia coccinea var. minima Fernald;
Salvia coccinea var. pseudococcinea (Jacq.) A.Gray;
Salvia filamentosa Tausch;
Salvia galeottii M.Martens;
Salvia glaucescens Pohl;
Salvia mollissima M.Martens & Galeotti;
Salvia pseudococcinea Jacq.;
Salvia rosea Vahl;
Salvia superba Vilm.; |
| Plant Common Name | : | blood sage, cherry red sage, crimson sage, hummingbird sage, red flowering salvia, red sage, red salvia, rosy sage, scarlet sage, scarlet salvia, South American sage, Texas sage, Texas salvia, tropical sage, wild salvia |
| Plant Family | : | Lamiaceae / Labiatae |
| Description | : | A long-lived herbaceous plant usually growing up to 1.5 m tall. Its stems are covered with short hairs as well as long spreading hairs. Its paired leaves (1.5-6 cm long and 1-5 cm wide) have toothed margins and densely hairy undersides. Its bright red, pink or white flowers (15-30 mm long) are borne in groups along elongated clusters at the tips of the stems. These flowers have a small upper lobe and a much larger and broader lower lobe. The stems are covered with short hairs and long spreading hairs (i.e. they are pubescent). The leaves are arranged in pairs along the stems and borne on stalks (i.e. petioles) that are usually 0.5-2 cm long (occasionally longer). They are egg-shaped in outline (i.e. ovate) to somewhat triangular in shape with toothed (i.e. crenate or serrate) margins and pointed to rounded tips (i.e. acute to obtuse apices). These leaves (1.5-6 cm long and 1-5 cm wide) have hairless (i.e. glabrous) to sparsely hairy (i.e. puberulent) upper surfaces and densely hairy (i.e. pubescent) undersides. The tubular flowers (15-30 mm long) are borne in elongated clusters at the tips of the stems (i.e. terminal racemes) and are arranged in groups of 3-10 (i.e. verticils) above small leafy bracts (up to 1 cm long). Each flower is borne on a short stalk (i.e. pedicel) up to 8 mm long and has five dull purple or green sepals (7-10 mm long). These sepals are hairy and fused together into a finely ribbed tube (i.e. calyx tube) which has a rounded upper lobe (i.e. obtuse upper lip) and a two-toothed lower lobe (i.e. two-toothed lower lip). The petals are hairy (i.e. pubescent) and fused together at the base into a tube (i.e. corolla tube). They are usually bright or dark red, but may occasionally be white or salmon pink, and separate into two lobes (i.e. an upper and lower lip). The upper lip is short and narrow, while the lower lip is longer and much broader. Each flower also has two stamens (4 mm long) and an ovary topped with a style and unequally two-lobed stigma. |
| Plant Location in Melghat | : | - |
| Medicinal Use / Activity | : | inflammation and oxidative stress |
| Plant's Phytochemicals | : | COMPOUNDS: - ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (0): |
| Plant's Current Status | : | - |
| Plant's Cross Database Reference | : | 259142 |
| Reference | : | Dhore M. A. (1984) The flora of melghat tiger reserve
- https://keyserver.lucidcentral.org/weeds/data/media/Html/salvia_coccinea.htm
- Yadav S, Mukundan U. In vitro antioxidant properties of Salvia coccinea Buc’hoz ex etl. and Salvia officinalis L. Indian J Fundam Appl Life Sci. 2011;1:232_8. |
| Reference | : | ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID : |
| Kingdom | : Plantae - Plants |
|---|---|
| Phylum | : Tracheophyta |
| Subkingdom | : Tracheobionta - Vascular plants |
| Superdivision | : Spermatophyta - Seed plants |
| Division | : Magnoliophyta - Flowering plants |
| Class | : Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons |
| Subclass | : Asteridae |
| Order | : Lamiales |
| Family | : Lamiaceae / Labiatae - Mint family |
| Genus | : Salvia |
| Species | : Salvia coccinea |