Salvia merjamieForssk.

WFO wfo-0000301581 Accepted WFO 2026-06 3 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–c · 3 separate observations

Salvia merjamie, photographed by stephen
fig. a stephen, CC BY 4.0 / 2020-02-19 / obs. 64105163
Salvia merjamie, photographed by Forest Botial-Jarvis
fig. b Forest Botial-Jarvis, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 50009685
Salvia merjamie, photographed by Rafael Medina
fig. c Rafael Medina, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 2072493

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Native range 8 botanical countries

Regions where Salvia merjamie is native: Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Tanzania, Uganda, Saudi Arabia, Yemen EritreaEthiopiaKenyaSomaliaTanzaniaUgandaSaudi ArabiaYemen
Native distribution of Salvia merjamie, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Eritrea ERI AFRICA
Ethiopia ETH
Kenya KEN
Somalia SOM
Tanzania TAN
Uganda UGA
Saudi Arabia SAU ASIA-TEMPERATE
Yemen YEM

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 7 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Salvia abyssinica L.f.
  • Salvia ambigua Salisb.
  • Salvia congesta A.Rich.
  • Salvia nubia Murray
  • Salvia nudicaulis Vahl
  • Salvia nudicaulis var. congesta (A.Rich.) Engl.
  • Salvia nudicaulis var. nubia (Murray) Baker

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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