Salvia lanceolata flowers at an angle

Salvia lanceolata flowers may present different colours of corollas and calyces, as well as anything but smooth and similar textures on both these floral parts, even in consecutive flowers of the same inflorescence.

The long, narrowly tubular and two-lipped corolla upper lips resemble human noses… one tends to remember such ones vaguely from the last overseas trip, but where was it again? The lower lip has three dangling lobes, diverging abruptly downwards from the longer upper lip at the corolla mouth. The calyces and back parts of the corolla tubes have bulging veins, less prominent on the corolla lobes.

There are two stamens on hinged filaments hidden inside the long upper lip of each corolla, as well as two small staminodes, probably lacking anthers and not often seen. The whitish style is unequally two-lobed, exceeding the anthers in forward position (Manning, 2009; Le Roux, et al, 2005; Leistner, (Ed.), 2000; Manning and Goldblatt, 1996; Bond and Goldblatt, 1984; iNaturalist; https://pza.sanbi.org).