The current conservation status of the Salvia L. (sage) taxa of the family Lamiaceae distributed in the East, South-East, Central, North Anatolian, and Marmara geographic regions of Turkey was reassessed at regional, national, and global levels using IUCN Red List categories and criteria. | A. KAHRAMAN, S. BAGHERPOUR, E. KARABACAK, M. DOĞAN, H. M. DOĞAN, İ. UYSAL, F. CELEP Research Article Turk J Bot 36 (2012) 103-124 © TÜBİTAK doi: Reassessment of conservation status of the genus Salvia (Lamiaceae) in Turkey II Ahmet KAHRAMAN1,2,*, Safi BAGHERPOUR3, Ersin KARABACAK4, Musa DOĞAN3, Hakan Mete DOĞAN5, İsmet UYSAL4, Ferhat CELEP6 1 Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Atatürk University, 25240 Erzurum - TURKEY 2 Department of Biology, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Uşak University, 64200 Uşak - TURKEY 3 Department of Biological Sciences, Middle East Technical University, 06800 Ankara - TURKEY 4 Department of Biology, Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University, 17020 Çanakkale - TURKEY 5 Geographic Information Systems and Remote Sensing Unit of Soil Science Department, Gaziosmanpaşa University, Taşlıçiftlik, 60240 Tokat - TURKEY 6 Department of Biology, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Nevşehir University, 50300 Nevşehir - TURKEY Received: Accepted: Abstract: The current conservation status of the Salvia L. (sage) taxa of the family Lamiaceae distributed in the East, South-East, Central, North Anatolian, and Marmara geographic regions of Turkey was reassessed at regional, national, and global levels using IUCN Red List categories and criteria. In accordance with the present taxonomic revision of the genus since 2005, the study area seems to cover 79 taxa, 36 of which are endemic and 4 of which are rare nonendemic; the remaining 39 taxa are widely distributed. The rate of endemism is 46% in the area. Based on new field observations of populations and distribution data, taxa were classified into the following threat categories at the global scale: Critically Endangered (CR) (5 taxa), Endangered (EN) (8 taxa), Vulnerable (VU) (11 taxa), Near Threatened (NT) (12 taxa), and Least Concern (LC) (43 taxa). The most threatened species at the global scale are S. anatolica, S. ballsiana, S. freyniana, S. odontochlamys,
