“…Although different flower structures in different Salvia species can lead to a large RI ( Walker and Sytsma, 2007 ), there are still many reports of natural hybridization in different clades. These cases are mostly described based on morphology ( Epling, 1938 ; Epling, 1947 ; Anderson and Anderson, 1954 ; Grant and Grant, 1964 ; Webb and Carlquist, 1964 ; Meyn, 1987 ; Hihara et al., 2001 ; Wood, 2014 ; Rivera et al., 2019 ), and only a few studies have relied on molecular evidence ( Walker et al., 2015 ; Radosavljević et al., 2019 ; Celep et al., 2020 ). In addition, in the East Asian Salvia clade (i.e., Subgenus Glutinaria ; Hu et al., 2018 ), which is a monophyletic lineage, studies on natural hybridization are extremely scarce ( Hihara et al., 2001 ).…”