Salvia brachyloma is a perennial plant that is native to Yunnan and Sichuan provinces in China, growing on grassy slopes and forested grasslands at elevation. The plant grows on one to a few stems from tall. The leaves are hastate to narrowly ovate, ranging in size from long and wide.
Inflorescences are widely spaced 2-flowered verticillasters on terminal racemes or panicles that grow up to long. The corolla is purplish, long.