Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 1: 23 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not designated).

Linnaeus, C. (1754), Genera Plantarum Edn. 5: 15 [secondary reference]

Brown, R. (27 March 1810), Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae et insulae Van-Diemen, exhibens characteres plantarum quas annis 1802-1805: 501 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 101 [secondary reference]

Dixon, W.A. (1906), The Plants of New South Wales: 233, 234 [secondary reference]

common name: Clary [n/a] common name: Sage [n/a]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 388 [secondary reference]

Britton, N.L. & Brown, A. (7 June 1913), An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British possessions Edn. 2, 3: 129 [secondary reference]

• Type: Salvia officinalis L.

Sulman, F. (1914), A Popular Guide to the Wild Flowers of New South Wales II: 157 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (December 1926), Meliaceae - Scrophulariaceae. Flora of South Australia 3: 480 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "Latin name of S. officinalis, L., the Garden Sage."

Black, J.M. & Robertson, E.L. (1957), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 4: 733 [secondary reference]

common name: Sage [n/a] common name: Salvia [n/a]

Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains: 418 [secondary reference]

Curtis, W.M. (1967), Angiospermae: Plumbaginaceae to Salicaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 3: 547 [secondary reference]

Burbidge, N.T. & Gray, M. (1970), Flora of the Australian Capital Territory: 316-318 [secondary reference]

Keng, W. (1978), Labiatae. Flora Malesiana Series I 8(3): 356-360 [secondary reference]

Cronquist, A.J. (1981), An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants: 927 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 138 [secondary reference]

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1986), Lamiaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 2: 388 [secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R. in Marchant, N.G., Wheeler, J.R., Rye, B.L., Bennett, E.M., Lander, N.S. & Macfarlane, T.D. (1987), Lamiaceae. Flora of the Perth Region 1: 565 [secondary reference]

Brummitt, R.K. (1992), Vascular Plant Families and Genera: 458 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Zappania Scop. legitimate

Conn, B.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1992), Lamiaceae. Flora of New South Wales 3: 634 [secondary reference]

Conn, B.J. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1999), Lamiaceae. Flora of Victoria 4: 428 [secondary reference]

• APC Dist.: WA (naturalised), NT (naturalised), SA (naturalised), Qld (naturalised), NSW (naturalised), NI (naturalised), ACT (naturalised), Vic (naturalised), Tas (naturalised)

Bown, D. (2002), New Encyclopedia of Herbs & Their Uses Edn. Revised: 353 [secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Dicotyledons. Flora of the South West 2: 648 [secondary reference]

Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (2004), Fruits of the Australian Tropical Rainforest: 240 [secondary reference]

Harley, R.M., Atkins, S., Budantsev, A.L., Cantino, P.D., Conn, B.J., Grayer, R., Harley, M.M., de Kok, R., Krestovskaja, T., Morales, R., Paton, A.J., Ryding, O. & Upson, T. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (2004), Labiatae. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 7: 235-236 [secondary reference]

Western Australian Herbarium (2007), FloraBase: the Western Australian Flora Version 2.5: - [secondary reference]

common name: Sages [n/a]

State Herbarium of South Australia (2008), Fact sheets. The Electronic Flora of South Australia: - [secondary reference]

common name: Sages [n/a]

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 762-763 [secondary reference]

Drew, B.T., González-Gallegos, J.G., Xiang, C.-L., Kriebel, R., Drummond, C.P., Walker, J.B. & Sytsma, K.J. (23 February 2017), Salvia united: The greatest good for the greatest number. Taxon 66(1): 139-140 [secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (7 July 2021), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

• APC Comment: Circumscription of Salvia in NSW includes Rosmarinus.
• APC Dist.: WA (naturalised), NT (naturalised), SA (naturalised), Qld (naturalised), NSW (naturalised), NI (naturalised), ACT (naturalised), Vic (naturalised), Tas (naturalised)

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