Salvia lankongensis is a perennial plant

Perennial plant

A perennial plant or simply perennial is a plant that lives for more than two years. The term is often used to differentiate a plant from shorter lived annuals and biennials. The term is sometimes misused by commercial gardeners or horticulturalists to describe only herbaceous perennials...

 that is native to Yunnan

Yunnan

Yunnan is a province of the People's Republic of China, located in the far southwest of the country spanning approximately and with a population of 45.7 million . The capital of the province is Kunming. The province borders Burma, Laos, and Vietnam.Yunnan is situated in a mountainous area, with...

 province in China, growing in grasslands and thickets at 3800 m (12,467.2 ft) elevation. S. lankongensis grows on erect stems to 23 to 28 cm (9.1 to 11 in) tall. The leaves are elliptic-ovate

Leaf shape

In botany, leaf shape is characterised with the following terms :* Acicular : Slender and pointed, needle-like* Acuminate : Tapering to a long point...

, typically ranging in size from 2.5 to 6 cm (0.984251968503937 to 2.4 in) long and 1.5 to 4.5 cm (0.590551181102362 to 1.8 in) wide. Inflorescences are 6-flowered verticillasters, in terminal raceme

Raceme

A raceme is a type of inflorescence that is unbranched and indeterminate and bears pedicellate flowers — flowers having short floral stalks called pedicels — along the axis. In botany, axis means a shoot, in this case one bearing the flowers. In a raceme, the oldest flowers are borne...

s or raceme-panicle

Panicle

A panicle is a compound raceme, a loose, much-branched indeterminate inflorescence with pedicellate flowers attached along the secondary branches; in other words, a branched cluster of flowers in which the branches are racemes....

s with a blue corolla that is 1.7 to 1.9 cm (0.669291338582677 to 0.748031496062992 in).