Salvia riparia
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Description
Erect, fetid herb, 0.5-1.5 m or more high.
Leaves membranaceous, lanceolate-ovate to ovate, 1.5—6.5(—12) by 0.6-4(-5) cm, acute or obtuse, base cuneate or attenuate, narrowed into the petiole, entire;
Flowers 2-3 or more in a verticillaster, in terminal spikes, 8-20 cm long.
Distribution
America present, Asia-Tropical: Lesser Sunda Is. (Bali present); Sumatera (Sumatera present), E. New Guinea present, Flores present, Lesser Sunda Is present, Northern America, Southern America: Peru (Peru present), Sumba present, Timor present, W.-E. Java present
Native of America (from Mexico to Peru and the West Indies), locally naturalized in Malesia: Sumatra, W.-E. Java, the Lesser Sunda Is. (Bali, Sumba, Flores, Timor), and E. New Guinea.
Uses
HEYNE (l.c.) records that this species is sometimes used as a ground-cover for heavy clay soils; the only drawback is that it cannot well stand the effect of slowly decaying leaves from surrounding shade trees.
Citation
WELSEM 1913 – In: Trop. Natuur: 13
EPLING 1938: p. 16. – In: Fedde, Rep. Beih. 110: pl. 1, f. 2
BOLD. 1916: Zakfl.: 110
BACK. 1913 – In: Bull. Jard. Bot. Btzg: 29
BACK. 1931: Onkr. Suiker.: 562
DEN BERGER 1917 – In: Trop. Natuur: 101
BACK. & BAKH.f. 1965 – In: Fl. Java: 627
MEER MOHR 1938: p. 226. – In: Trop. Natuur: f. 2 & 3
WELSEM 1973: Atlas: t. 533
HEUBEL 1935 – In: Trop. Natuur: 119
HEYNE 1927: Nutt. Pl.: 1327
STEEN. 1938: pp. 1636-1640. – In: Bergcultures