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Salvia verbenaca L.

Taxonomic history:
    1753: Linnaeus described this species as Salvia verbenaca in Species Plantarum, 1st ed., p. 25.
   today: The current name for this species is Salvia verbenaca L.


original Latin diagnosis
Salvia foliis serratis sinuatis, corollis calyce angustioribus.

English translation
Salvia with leaf blades serrate [and] sinuate; [and] with corollas at the calyx narrower.


English translation with commentary
Salvia Salvia
with leaf blades foliis - ablative plural of second declension neuter noun folium, folii
serrate serratis - ablative plural neuter of group A adjective serratus, -a. -um); modifies foliis
[and] [added for smoother reading]
sinuate; sinuatis - ablative plural neuter of group A adjective sinuatus, -a, -um; modifies foliis
[and] [added for smoother reading]
with the corollas corollis - ablative plural of first declension feminine noun corolla, -ae
at the calyx calyce - ablative singular of third declension masculine noun calyx, calycis
narrower. angustioribus - comparative degree, ablative plural feminine of group A adjective angustus, -a, -um; modifies corollis



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