Salvia candidissima, Vahl

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1972, Flora Europaea. Volume 3. Diapensiacea to Myoporaceae, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press : 190

17. S. candidissima Vahl , Enum. Pl. 1: 278 (1804).

Perennial up to 60 cm. Stems simple or little-branched, glandular above. Leaves simple, petiolate, ovate, cordate at base, acute, pannose. Verticillasters with 2-6 flowers. Bracts less than | as long as calyx, green; pedicels c. 2 mm. Calyx c. 10 mm, densely glandular-pubescent. Corolla 20-30 mm, white with a few purple spots on lower palate; upper lip strongly falcate. S. Albania, W. Greece. Al Gr. (S. W. Asia.)

S. sonklarii Pant. , Magyar Növ. Lapok 5: 151 (1881), with 2-flowered verticillasters and spiny calyx-teeth, has been described from C. Jugoslavia. Its status is uncertain.