Salvia spinosa

Life-forms

Classification System: APG IV

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Cladus: Angiosperms
Cladus: Eudicots
Cladus: Core eudicots
Cladus: Asterids
Cladus: Lamiids
Ordo: Lamiales

Familia: Lamiaceae
Subfamilia: Nepetoideae
Tribus: Mentheae
Subtribus: Salviinae
Genus: Salvia
Subgenus: S. subg. Sclarea
Sectio: S. sect. Aethiopis
Species: Salvia spinosa
Subspecies: S. s. subsp. maroccana – S. s. subsp. spinosa
Name

Salvia spinosa L., Mant. Pl. 2: 511 (1771).
Homonyms

Salvia spinosa Moench = Salvia nilotica Juss. ex Jacq.

Synonyms

Homotypic
Sclarea spinosa (L.) Raf., Fl. Tellur. 3: 94 (1837).

Homonyms

Salvia spinosa Moench, Methodus: 373 (1794). = Salvia nilotica Juss. ex Jacq., Hort. Bot. Vindob. 3: 48 (1777).

Distribution
Native distribution areas:

Africa
Northern Africa
Egypt, Libya, Morocco.
Asia-Temperate
Middle Asia
Kirgizstan, Tadzhikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan.
Western Asia
Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon-Syria, Palestine, Sinai, Turkey.
Arabian Peninsula
Gulf States, Saudi Arabia.

References: Brummitt, R.K. 2001. TDWG – World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2nd Edition
References
Additional references

Pobedimova, E.G. 1954. Salvia spinosa. Pp. 216 in Schischkin, B.K. (ed.), Flora URSS (Flora Unionis Rerumpublicarum Sovieticarum Socialisticarum) XXI. [Labiatae] [in Russian]. 645 pp., Academia Scientiarum URSS, Mosqua, Leningrad. DJVU English translation: 515 pp. BHL Reference page.
Dobignard, A. & Chatelain, C. 2012. Index synonymique de la flore d'Afrique du Nord. Volume 4: Dicotyledoneae: Fabaceae – Nymphaeaceae. Conservatoire et jardin botaniques, Genève, ISBN 978-2-8277-0126-1, 431 pp. PDF Reference page.
Güner, A., Aslan, S., Ekim, T., Vural, M. & Babaç, M.T. (eds.) 2012. Türkiye Bitkileri Listesi (Damarlı Bitkiler). Nezahat Gökyiğit Botanik Bahçesi ve Flora Araştırmaları Derneği Yayını. İstanbul. ISBN 978-605-60425-7-7. Online edition. Reference page.

Links

Govaerts, R. et al. 2021. Salvia spinosa in World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2021 January 18. Reference page.
International Plant Names Index. 2021. Salvia spinosa. Published online. Accessed: 18 January 2021.