Topic summary
Mint family
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Lamiaceae.
The mint family as a whole has a cosmopolitan distribution comprising about 236 genera and around 6,900 to 7,200 species. The World Checklist of Selected Plant Families estimates an even larger number with 7,534 species. The largest genera are Salvia (900), Scutellaria (360), Stachys (300), Plectranthus (300), Hyptis (280), Teucrium (250), Vitex (250), Thymus (220), and Nepeta (200). Clerodendrum was once a genus of over 400 species, but by 2010, it had been narrowed to about 150.