Lectotypus (designated here): [IRAQ]: Hort. Cels, Ventenat s.n. (G [G00341501]!; isolecto-: C [C10013209]!).

Notes. – The name Salvia compressa was validated in Descriptions in 1801 based on a specimen cultivated in Cels’s garden originating from a Bruguière and Olivier collection from Iraq (between Mosul and Baghdad). The only specimen in Ventenat’s herbarium from Cels’s garden is designated as the lectotype with a duplicate in C. Four specimens collected between Mosul and Baghdad by Bruguière and Olivier have been located in G-BOIS [G00330751] and P [P02888639, P02888640, P02888641]. They are here considered as elements of original material. Hedge (1982: 426) in his revision for Fl. Iranica did not specify the herbarium where the type specimen has been desposited; this cannot be considered as an implicit lectotypification.