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  • COMMON NAME: Egyptian sage
  • ARABIC: خيذامه، بثمان
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Salvia macilenta Boiss.
  • SYNONYMS: Pleudia macilenta ( Boiss. ) M. Will.
  • FAMILY: LAMIACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Abu-Dhabi , Dubai , Fujairah
  • GROWTH FORMS: Herbs
  • HABITATS: Gulley Slope (Rocky) Slope (Stony)
  • TYPES: Perennial
  • REMARKS: Wadi Wurayah National Park (WWNP).
Flora of the United Arab Emirates V1 & 2, Fawzi M.Karim, Nael M.Fawzi; reviewed by Fatima Al-Ansary. Al-Ain: United Arab Emirates University, 2007. https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/107519931 Gary R. Feulner. 2014. The Flora of Wadi Wurayah National Park Fujairah, United Arab Emirates. V.V. Byalt, V.M. Korshunov, M.V. Korshunov. Cadaster of the Flora of Fujairah Emirate (United Arab Emirates). Al Fujairah 2021.

Dwarf, compact, perennial herbs, up to 30 cm high, with woody base and many rigid, slender, ascending branchlets. Leaves few, petiolate, scale-like, up to 1 cm long, 3-8 mm broad, ovate to linear, wavy at margins. Flowers in open spikes on stalks above branches. Calyx covered, with dense, long hairs, 2-5 mm long. Corolla lilac, 5-10 mm long, longer than calyx, upper lip oblong lower lip 3-lobed. Style bifid, unequal arms. Nutlets 2 mm long, oblong. 

Flowering from February to May.
Mountain slopes and hillsides.
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