Mentheae is the largest tribe of plants in the family
Lamiaceae
The Lamiaceae ( )
or Labiatae are a family of flowering plants commonly known as the mint, deadnettle or sage family. Many of the plants are aromatic in all parts and include widely used culinary herbs like basil, mint, rosemary, sage, savory ...
. It includes herbs such as sage, hyssop, mint, bee balm and thyme.
Genera
Subtribe Lycopinae
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Lycopus
''Lycopus'' (water horehound, gypsywort, or bugleweed) is a genus in the family Lamiaceae. They are all herbaceous plants native to Europe, Asia, Australia, and North America. The species are most often found in wetlands, damp meadows, and strea ...
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Subtribe Menthinae
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Acanthomintha''
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Blephilia''
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Bystropogon
''Bystropogon'' is a genus of evergreen shrubs in the family Lamiaceae. It is native to the Canary Islands and Madeira in the eastern Atlantic Ocean. Allied to the ''Origanum'' and ''Thymus'', the genus is characterized by tiny flowers in muc ...
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Clinopodium
''Clinopodium'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Lamiaceae. It is in the tribe Mentheae of the subfamily Nepetoideae, but little else can be said with certainty about its phylogenetic position.
The genus name ''Clinopodium'' is deri ...
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Conradina
''Conradina'' is a genus of flowering plants in the mint family, Lamiaceae.Raymond M. Harley, Sandy Atkins, Andrey L. Budantsev, Philip D. Cantino, Barry J. Conn, Renée J. Grayer, Madeline M. Harley, Rogier P.J. de Kok, Tatyana V. Krestovskaja, ...
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Cuminia
''Cuminia'' is a genus of flowering plant in the family Lamiaceae, first described in 1835. It contains only one known species, ''Cuminia eriantha''. It is endemic to Robinson Crusoe Island, one of the Juan Fernández Islands in the southeast Pa ...
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Cunila
''Cunila'' is a genus of plants in the Lamiaceae, first described in 1759. It is native to North and South America.Molina Rosito, A. 1975. Enumeración de las plantas de Honduras. Ceiba 19(1): 1–118.
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Cyclotrichium
''Cyclotrichium'' is a genus of plants in the Lamiaceae, first described as a genus in 1953. The entire genus is endemic to southwestern Asia (Iran, Iraq, Turkey, Syria, Lebanon
Lebanon ( , ar, لُبْنَان, translit=lubnān, ), offic ...
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Dicerandra
''Dicerandra'' is a genus of flowering plants in the mint family. ''Dicerandra'' comprises 11 species: six perennial and five annual species. The perennials have narrow ranges in Central Florida with small population sizes and only occur on ancie ...
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Drymosiphon
''Clinopodium'' is a genus of flowering plants in the Family (biology), family Lamiaceae. It is in the Tribe (biology), tribe Mentheae of the subfamily Nepetoideae, but little else can be said with certainty about its Phylogenetic tree, phylogene ...
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Eriothymus''
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Glechon
''Glechon'' is a genus of flowering plants in the mint family, Lamiaceae, first described in 1827. It is native to South America
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Gontscharovia''
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Hedeoma
''Hedeoma'' is a genus of flowering plants in the mint family, Lamiaceae. It is native to North and South America. They are commonly known as false pennyroyals.
The genus name is derived from the Greek words ἡδύς (''hedys''), meaning "swee ...
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Hesperozygis''
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Hoehnea''
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Killickia
''Killickia'' is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Lamiaceae
The Lamiaceae ( )
or Labiatae are a family of flowering plants commonly known as the mint, deadnettle or sage family. Many of the plants are aromatic in all part ...
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Kurzamra
''Kurzamra'' is a genus of flowering plant in the family Lamiaceae, first described in 1891. It contains only one known species, ''Kurzamra pulchella'', native to Chile and northwestern Argentina
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Mentha
''Mentha'' (also known as mint, from Greek , Linear B ''mi-ta'') is a genus of plants in the family Lamiaceae (mint family). The exact distinction between species is unclear; it is estimated that 13 to 24 species exist. Hybridization occurs n ...
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Micromeria
''Micromeria'' is a genus of flowering plants in the mint family, Lamiaceae, widespread across Europe, Asia, Africa, and North America, with a center of diversity in the Mediterranean region and the Canary Islands. It is sometimes placed withi ...
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Minthostachys
''Minthostachys'' is a genus of the mint family Lamiaceae, comprising aromatic scandent shrubs. It occurs along the Andes from Northern Venezuela through Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia to Central Argentina.
Use and conservation
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Monarda
''Monarda'' is a genus of flowering plants in the mint family, Lamiaceae.Harley, R. M., et al. 2004. "Labiatae". pp 167-275 In: Kubitzki, K. (editor) and J. W. Kadereit (volume editor). ''The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants'' volume VII. ...
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Monardella
''Monardella'' is a genus of approximately 40 species of annual and perennial plants native to western North America from British Columbia to northwestern Mexico. They are grown for their highly aromatic foliage, which in some species is used for ...
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Obtegomeria''
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Origanum
''Origanum'' ( ) is a genus of herbaceous perennials and subshrubs in the family Lamiaceae, native to Europe, North Africa, and much of temperate Asia, where they are found in open or mountainous habitats. A few species also naturalized in sc ...
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Pentapleura
''Pentapleura'' is a genus of flowering plant in the family Lamiaceae, first described in 1913. It contains only one known species, ''Pentapleura subulifera'', native to southeastern Turkey and northern Iraq
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Piloblephis
''Piloblephis'' is a monotypic genus of flowering plant in the family Lamiaceae, first described in 1838. It contains only one known species, ''Piloblephis rigida'', the wild pennyroyal, or pennyroyal native to Florida, southern Georgia (U.S. sta ...
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Pogogyne
''Pogogyne'' is a small genus of flowering plants in the Lamiaceae, mint family known generally as mesamints or mesa mints. They are native to Oregon, Idaho, California, and Baja California.
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Poliomintha
''Poliomintha'' is a genus of flowering plants in the mint family, Lamiaceae. It is native to the southwestern United States, Haiti, and northern Mexico.
The name is derived from the Greek words πολιός (''polios''), meaning "grey," and μ ...
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Pycnanthemum
''Pycnanthemum'' is a genus of herbaceous plants in the mint family (Lamiaceae). Species in this genus are often referred to as "mountain mints" and they often have a minty or thyme-like aroma when crushed. All species of ''Pycnanthemum'' are ...
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Rhabdocaulon''
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Rhododon''
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Saccocalyx''
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Satureja
''Satureja'' is a genus of aromatic plants of the family Lamiaceae, related to rosemary and thyme. It is native to North Africa, southern and southeastern Europe, the Middle East, and Central Asia. A few New World species were formerly included i ...
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Stachydeoma
''Stachydeoma'', common name mock pennyroyal, is a genus of flowering plant in the family Lamiaceae, first described as a genus in 1903. It contains only one known species, ''Stachydeoma graveolens'', endemic to the State of Florida in the United ...
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Thymbra''
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Thymus
The thymus is a specialized primary lymphoid organ of the immune system. Within the thymus, thymus cell lymphocytes or ''T cells'' mature. T cells are critical to the adaptive immune system, where the body adapts to specific foreign invaders. ...
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Zataria''
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Ziziphora
''Ziziphora'' are a genus of annual or perennial herbs or subshrubs in the family Lamiaceae. ''Ziziphora'' has aromatic leaves; they are found in open and often xeric habitats in Southern and Eastern Europe, North-West Africa and Asia to the Hima ...
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Subtribe Nepetinae
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Agastache
''Agastache'' () is a genus of aromatic flowering herbaceous perennial plants in the family Lamiaceae. It contains 22 species, mainly native to North America, one species native to eastern Asia. The common names of the species are a variety of f ...
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Cedronella''
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Dracocephalum
''Dracocephalum'' is a genus of about 60Sonboli, A., et al. (2011)Molecular characterization of Iranian ''Dracocephalum'' (Lamiaceae) species based on RAPD data.''Acta Biologica Szegediensis'' 55(2), 227-30. to 70 speciesLazarević, P., et al. ( ...
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Drepanocaryum''
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Glechoma
''Glechoma'' is a genus of flowering plants in the mint family, Lamiaceae, first described for modern science in 1753. It is distributed in northern Asia and Europe with a center of diversity in Asia, especially China. One species is naturalized ...
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Heterolamium''
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Hymenocrater''
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Hyssopus''
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Kudrjaschevia''
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Lallemantia''
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Lophanthus''
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Marmoritis
''Marmoritis'' is a genus of plants in the Lamiaceae, first described in 1833. It is native to western China and the Himalayas
The Himalayas, or Himalaya (; ; ), is a mountain range in Asia, separating the plains of the Indian subcontine ...
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Meehania
''Meehania'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Lamiaceae, first described in 1894. It is native to China, Japan, and the eastern United States
The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United State ...
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Nepeta
''Nepeta'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Lamiaceae. The genus name is reportedly in reference to Nepete, an ancient Etruscan city. ''
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Schizonepeta
''Schizonepeta'' (Japanese catnip) is a genus of herbs. It should not be confused with the true catnips of the genus '' Nepeta'' (also Lamiaceae) known for their euphoria-inducing effect on domestic cats.
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Subtribe Prunellinae
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Cleonia''
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Horminum
''Horminum'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Lamiaceae, comprising a single species, ''Horminum pyrenaicum''. Common names include dragonmouth and Pyrenean dead-nettle.
Description
''Horminum pyrenaicum'' is a perennial plant growi ...
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Prunella''
Subtribe Salviinae
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Chaunostoma''
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Dorystaechas''
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Lepechinia''
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Melissa
Melissa is a female given name. The name comes from the Greek word μέλισσα (''mélissa''), "bee", which in turn comes from μέλι (''meli''), "honey". In Hittite, ''melit'' signifies "honey".
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Meriandra''
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Neoeplingia
''Neoeplingia '' is a monotypic genus of flowering plant in the family Lamiaceae, first described in 1982. It contains only one known species, ''Neoeplingia leucophylloides'', endemic to the State of Hidalgo (state), Hidalgo in central Mexico.
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Salvia
''Salvia'' () is the largest genus of plants in the sage family Lamiaceae, with nearly 1000 species of shrubs, herbaceous plant, herbaceous perennial plant, perennials, and annual plant, annuals. Within the Lamiaceae, ''Salvia'' is part of the ...
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Zhumeria''
Incertae sedis
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Acinos
''Acinos'' is a genus of ten species of annual and short-lived evergreen perennial woody plants native to southern Europe and western Asia. Its name comes from the Greek word ', the name of a small aromatic plant. They are small, tufted, bushy ...
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Calamintha
''Calamintha'' is a genus of plants that belongs to the family Lamiaceae. Commonly called the calamints, there are about eight species in the genus (around 30 before revisions in taxonomy) which is native to the northern temperate regions of E ...
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Pitardia''
References
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Asterid tribes
Lamiaceae