Salvia falcata

Salvia falcata is a perennial shrub that is endemic to a very small area in NW Cundinamarca in Colombia, growing in dry bushland in a steep river valley at around 1000 m elevation—unusually low for red-flowered salvias.

Salvia falcata grows to 2 m tall, with 4-angle stems, and with many branches. The leaves are lanceolate-elliptic to ovate-ellipitic, ranging from 6 to 11 cm long and 1.8 to 4.7 cm wide. The inflorescence has single racemes in the leaf axils with a 2.6 to 2.8 cm red corolla.