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List of Salvia species

Salvia is the largest genus of plants in the family Lamiaceae, with the number of species estimated to range from 700 to nearly 3,000. Members include shrubs, herbaceous perennials, and annuals. There are three main regions of radiation of Salvia:

  • Central and South America and Middle America and Mesoamerica, Latin America and with Africa-Eurasia and North America, (America), with approximately 600 species;
  • North-Northern, Central and West-Western Asia and the Mediterranean with approx. 250 species;
  • Eest-Eastern and South-Southern Asia and Australia and Oceania with approximately 90 species.[1]

The naming of distinct Salvia species has undergone regular revision, with many species being renamed, merged, and reclassified over the years. Salvia officinalis (common sage), for example, has been cultivated for thousands of years, yet has been named and described under six different scientific names since 1940 alone. At one time there were over 2,000 named species and subspecies. A revision in 1988 by Gabriel Alziar of the Jardin botanique de la Ville de Nice consolidated the number of different species to approximately 700. As new discoveries are made, the taxonomic list of Salvia species will continue to change.[2][3][4]

The first significant accounting of the genus was done by George Bentham in 1832–1836, based on a similarity in staminal morphology between Salvia members.[5] His work, Labiatarum Genera et Species (1836), is still the most comprehensive organization of Salvia. Even though there were only 291 species at that time, he still considered the possibility of forming five or six genera, due to differences between certain groups of Salvia. Bentham eventually organized the genus into four subgenera and twelve sections, based on differences in the corolla, calyx, and stamens. In the last 100 years, that system of organization is generally not endorsed by botanists.[2]

The classification of Salvia has long been based on the genus' unusual pollination and stamen structure, which was presumed to have evolved only once. More recently, a study using DNA sequencing of Salvia species has shown that different versions of this lever mechanism have evolved at least three different times within Salvia. This clearly makes the genus non-monophyletic, which means that members of the genus have evolved from different ancestors, rather than sharing one common ancestor. The DNA analysis has shown that the genus may consist of as many as three different clades, or branches.[1] The study concluded that Salvia is not a natural genus—some of its branches have a closer relationship to other genera in the tribe Mentheae than to other Salvia species.[6]

As of May 2024, Plants of the World Online accepted 1024 species, listed below.[7]

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Salvia africana
 
Salvia apiana
 
Salvia austriaca
 
Salvia azurea

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Salvia blepharophylla
 
Salvia brandegeei
 
Salvia buchananii

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Salvia carduacea
 
Salvia chiapensis
 
Salvia clevelandii
 
Salvia coccinea

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Salvia desoleana
 
Salvia dorisiana
 
Salvia dorrii

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Salvia elegans
 
Salvia eremostachya

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Salvia farinacea
 
Salvia forskaehlei
 
Salvia funerea

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Salvia gesneriflora
 
Salvia glutinosa
 
Salvia greggii

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Salvia hierosolymitana
 
Salvia hispanica
 
Salvia holwayi

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Salvia indica
 
Salvia iodantha

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Salvia judaica

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Salvia karwinskii

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Salvia lanceolata
 
Salvia leucantha
 
Salvia lyrata

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Salvia macrophylla
 
Salvia madrensis
 
Salvia mellifera
 
Salvia melissodora
 
Salvia microphylla

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Salvia nemorosa
 
Salvia nipponica

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Salvia officinalis
 
Salvia omeiana

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Salvia pachyphylla
 
Salvia patens
 
Salvia pichinchensis
 
Salvia pratensis
 
Salvia purpurea

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Salvia regla
 
Salvia ringens
 
Rosemary, Salvia rosmarinus
 
Salvia rubescens

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Salvia sagittata
 
Salvia sinaloensis
 
Salvia spathacea
 
Salvia splendens

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Salvia tiliifolia
 
Salvia transsylvanica

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Salvia urica

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Salvia verbenaca
 
Salvia verticillata
 
Salvia viscosa

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Interspecific hybrids edit

 
Salvia Mystic Spires Blue 'Balsalmisp'

Hybrids accepted by Plants of the World Online as of May 2024 include:[7]

There are also many horticultural cultivars and hybrids, particularly those involving Salvia microphylla, Salvia greggii and their hybrid Salvia × jamensis.[8]

References edit

  1. ^ a b Jay B. Walker; Kenneth J. Sytsma; Jens Treutlein; Michael Wink (2004). "Salvia (Lamiaceae) is not monophyletic: implications for the systematics, radiation, and ecological specializations of Salvia and tribe Mentheae". American Journal of Botany. 91 (7): 1115–1125. doi:10.3732/ajb.91.7.1115. PMID 21653467.
  2. ^ a b Sutton, John (2004). The Gardener's Guide to Growing Salvias. Workman Publishing Company. p. 17. ISBN 978-0-88192-671-2.
  3. ^ Clebsch, Betsy; Carol D. Barner (2003). The New Book of Salvias. Timber Press. p. 18. ISBN 978-0-88192-560-9.
  4. ^ Alziar, Gabriel (1988). Catalogue synonymique des Salvia du monde (Lamiaceae) (in French). Nice: Muséum d'histoire naturelle.
  5. ^ El-Gazzar, A., L. Watson, W. T. Williams, and G. N. Lance (1968). "The taxonomy of Salvia: a test of two radically different numerical methods". Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Botany. 60 (383): 237–250. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8339.1968.tb00087.x.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  6. ^ Sytsma, Ken; Jay B. Walker. "Molecular phylogenetics, evolution, and classification of Salvia and related Mentheae". Salvia Research Network. Department of Botany, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Archived from the original on 10 June 2010. Retrieved 5 August 2010.
  7. ^ a b "Salvia L." Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 2024-05-03.
  8. ^ Dyson, William (September 2015). "RHS trial of Mexican Salvia". The Plantsman. New Series. 14 (3): 158–164.
 
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