Plant Details

Accepted name:: Salvia coccinea Buc'hoz ex Etl. [Lamiaceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( High Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
beni-bana-sarubia	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
blood sage	Other	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
hóng huā shǔ wěi cǎo	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
hóng huā zǐ cān	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
mirto rojo	Other	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
red sage	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
red salvia	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
samudrashosha	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
sauge écarlate	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
scarlet sage	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
taxes sage	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
texas sage	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
tropical sage	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
wild salvia	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
xiǎo hóng huā	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
zhu chun	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
zhū chún	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
小红花	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
朱唇	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
红花紫参	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
红花鼠尾草	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
whole shoot system		Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
		Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)

Kew's taxonomic resources include 14 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Salvia coccinea L.f. Suppl. Pl.: 88 (1782), nom. illeg.
Horminum coccineum (Buc'hoz ex Etl.) Moench Methodus: 377 (1794).
Salvia ciliata Benth. Labiat. Gen. Spec.: 286 (1833), nom. illeg.
Salvia coccinea var. minima Fernald Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 35: 551 (1900).
Salvia coccinea f. pseudococcinea (Jacq.) Voss Vilm. Blumengärtn., ed. 3. 1: 839 (1895).
Salvia coccinea var. pseudococcinea (Jacq.) A.Gray Syn. Fl. N. Amer. 2(1): 368 (1886).
Salvia coccinea pumila Barr & Sugden Nursery Cat. (Barr & Son) 1866(Autumn): 4 (1866).
Salvia filamentosa Tausch Flora 25: 282 (1842).
Salvia galeottii M.Martens Bull. Acad. Roy. Sci. Bruxelles 11(2): 75 (1844).
Salvia glaucescens Pohl Pl. Bras. Icon. Descr. 2: t. 192 (1833).
Salvia mollissima M.Martens & Galeotti Bull. Acad. Roy. Sci. Bruxelles 11(2): 71 (1844).
Salvia pseudococcinea Jacq. Collectanea 2: 302 (1789).
Salvia rosea Vahl Enum. Pl. Obs. 1: 244 (1804).
Salvia superba E.Vilm. Fl. Pleine Terre: 769 (1863).

This plant is cited in medicinal sources using the following names:

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Salvia coccinea	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
Salvia coccinea Buc'hoz ex Etl.	World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020)
Salvia coccinea Buchoz ex Etl.	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000)
Salvia coccinea Buchoz ex Etlinga	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
Salvia coccinea Buc’hoz ex Etl.	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)
Salvia coccinea Etl.	Med. and Magical Pl. of S Africa (Arnold et al., 2002)
Salvia coccinea L.	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Salvia coccinea Linn.	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
Salvia coccinea P.j. Buchoz Ex Etlinger	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)

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