Salvia hylocharis Diels

Plants perennial. Stems 1 or 2, 45-90 cm tall, ascending to erect, unbranched, villous toward apex, glabrescent toward base. Petiole 2-13 cm; leaf blade ovate-triangular to ovate-hastate, 3-8.5(-14) × ca. 8.5(-14) cm, papery, adaxially pilose, abaxially pilose along veins, sparsely yellow-brown glandular, base cordate, margin irregularly crenate, apex obtuse to acute. Inflorescences densely villous; verticillasters 2-4-flowered, in racemes or raceme-panicles; bracts broadly ovate to subcircular, shorter than calyx. Pedicel ca. 4 mm. Calyx broadly tubular-campanulate, 1.7-2.2 cm, villous mainly along veins and margin, sparsely yellow-brown glandular; tube ca. 1.5 cm; upper lip semicircular-triangular, ca. 4 × 13 mm; lower lip shallowly 2-toothed, teeth broadly triangular, apex acute. Corolla yellow, (2.2-)3.5-3.8 cm; tube sparsely pilose or subglabrous, pilose annulate inside, ca. 3 mm wide at base, adaxially gradually dilated to 1.4 cm wide at throat; limb pilose, ciliate; upper lip ca. 1 cm, straight; lower lip to 1.7 cm, middle lobe flabellate, ca. 0.6 × 1.3-1.5 cm; lateral lobes obliquely ovate, to 5 mm. Filaments ca. 6 mm; connectives ca. 9 mm, upper arms ca. 6 mm. Style exserted. Nutlets obovoid. Fl. Jul-Sep.

Xizang, Yunnan.

* Grassy slopes, forest margins, streamsides, tufts of grass; 2800-4000 m.

Salvia forrestii Diels; S. hylocharis var. subsimplex C. Y. Wu.

Salvia hylocharis is a perennial plant that is native to Xizang and Yunnan provinces in China, growing on grassy slopes, forest margins, and streamsides at 2,800 to 4,000 m (9,200 to 13,100 ft) elevation. S. hylocharis grows on one or two ascending to erect stems to 45 to 90 cm (18 to 35 in) tall. The leaves are ovate-triangular to ovate-hastate, typically ranging in size from 3 to 8.5 cm (1.2 to 3.3 in) long and approximately 8.5 cm (3.3 in) wide, though they sometimes are larger.

Inflorescences are racemes or raceme-panicles up to 25 cm (9.8 in), with a yellow corolla that is 3.5 to 3.8 cm (1.4 to 1.5 in), occasionally smaller.