''Salvia brevilabra'' (the shortlip sage) is a perennial plant that is native to Sichuan province in China, growing on hillsides, grasslands, and in forests at elevation. It grows up to tall, with basal leaves that are

ovate Ovate may refer to: *Ovate (egg-shaped) leaves, tepals, or other botanical parts *Ovate, a type of prehistoric stone hand axe *Ovates, one of three ranks of membership in the Welsh Gorsedd *Vates In modern English, the nouns vates () and ovat ...

to triangular-ovate, long and wide. The stem leaves are somewhat smaller, and more triangular in shape. Inflorescences are

raceme A raceme ( or ) or racemoid is an unbranched, indeterminate type of inflorescence bearing flowers having short floral stalks along the shoots that bear the flowers. The oldest flowers grow close to the base and new flowers are produced as the s ...

s or

panicle A panicle is a much-branched inflorescence. (softcover ). Some authors distinguish it from a compound spike inflorescence, by requiring that the flowers (and fruit) be pedicellate (having a single stem per flower). The branches of a panicle are of ...

s, approximately , with a blue-purple corolla about long.

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brevilabra Flora of China Taxa named by Adrien René Franchet {{Salvia-stub