This species is widespread in the Hajar Mountains and occurs on some offshore islands (Jongbloed et al. 2003), and has also been recorded from Jebel Hafeet where it was widely but sparsely distributed (Stuart and Stuart 1998), including Wadi Tarabat (Fawzi and Ksiksi 2012). Sharjah Seedbank & Herbarium hold specimens from the central Hajar Mountains in the UAE, as well as single specimens from further north in R'as al-Khaimah and from Al Ain. Feulner recorded a species of Reseda from the upper part of Wadi Bih (low gravel terraces at c. 300 m asl; possibly in Oman) that may refer to R. aucheri (Feulner 2016). The species is native to native from the eastern Arabian Peninsula east to Iran and Turkmenistan (Board of Trustees, RBG Kew 2019).