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Labiatae

(Family)

Overview

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A Family in the Kingdom Plantae.

Taxonomy

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The Family Labiatae is further organized into finer groupings including:

Genera

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Achyrospermum

Herbs, prostrate at base. Leaves numerous, petiolate, margin dentate. Verticillasters ca. 6-flowered, in axillary or terminal spikes; floral leaves generally reduced to ovate bracts slightly longer than calyx. Calyx tubular-campanulate, pouched in fruit, straight or curved downward, herbaceous, 10-15-veined; teeth 5, subequal or limb ± 2-lipped and upper lip 3-toothed and lower lip 2-toothed. Corolla tube nearly included or much exserted, straight or curved downward, slightly dilated at apex, 2-lipped; upper lip short, straight, emarginate or 2-lobed; lower lip longer, spreading, 3-lobed, lobes ovate; middle lobe largest, entire or 2-lobulate. Stamens 4, anterior 2 longer, reaching upper corolla lip; anther cells 1 or 2, divaricate, apex confluent if 2. Style apex 2-cleft, posterior lobe short. Disc shallowly cupulate, crenate. Nutlets obovoid to oblong-ovoid, densely scaly.[1] [more]

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 akinos, the name of a small aromatic plant. They are small, tufted, bushy or spreading plants growing to 10-45 cm tall. The 2-lipped, tubular flowers are in whorls borne on erect spike-like inflorescence produced in mid-summer. [more]

Acrymia

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Aegiphila

Aegiphila is a genus of plant in family Verbenaceae. [more]

Aeollanthus

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Agastache

Agastache, is a genus of 9?12 species of perennial herbs in the family Lamiaceae, native to eastern Asia (one species) and North America (the rest). [more]

Ajuga

Ajuga (), also known as Bugleweed, Ground pine or Carpet bugle, is a genus of about 40?50 species of annual and perennial herbaceous flowering plants in the mint family Lamiaceae, with most species native to Europe, Asia, and Africa, but also two species in southeastern Australia. They grow to 5?50 cm tall, with opposite leaves. [more]

Amasonia

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Amethystea

Herbs annual. Stems erect. Leaves petiolate; leaf blade palmatipartite, margin rarely entire. Panicles terminal; floral leaves similar to stem leaves, reduced; bracteoles linear. Calyx campanulate, 10-veined, veins conspicuous; teeth 5, subregular, enlarged in fruit. Corolla tube included or slightly exserted, not hairy annulate inside, 2-lipped; upper lip 2-lobed, lobes similar to lateral lobes of lower lip; lower lip slightly larger, 3-lobed, middle lobe subcircular. Stamens 4, anterior 2 fertile, involute in bud, elongate after anthesis, exserted from sinus of upper lip, posterior 2 reduced to staminodes, minute, or almost absent; anthers 2-celled, cells divaricate, longitudinally dehiscent, apically confluent. Style unequally 2-cleft, posterior lobe short or inconspicuous. Nutlets obovoid triquetrous.[2] [more]

Anisomeles

Anisomeles is a genus of herbaceous plants of the family Lamiaceae. [more]

Ballota

Ballota (horehound) is a genus of about 35 species of flowering plants in the family Lamiaceae, native to temperate regions of Europe, north Africa and western Asia, with the highest diversity in the Mediterranean region. The type species for the genus is Ballota nigra. [more]

Basilicum

Basil, or Sweet Basil, is a common name for the culinary herb Ocimum basilicum " class="IPA">/'b?z?l/ or, in the US, ), of the family Lamiaceae (mints), sometimes known as Saint Joseph's Wort in some English-speaking countries. [more]

Brunella

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Bystropogon

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Capitanya

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Caryopteris

Caryopteris (bluebeard; Chinese: ) is a genus of 16 species of flowering plants in the family Lamiaceae (formerly often placed in the family Verbenaceae), native to eastern and southern Asia. [more]

Catoferia

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Cedronella

Cedronella is a of flowering plants in the Mentheae tribe of family Lamiaceae, comprising a single species, Cedronella canariensis, endemic to the Canary Islands. [more]

Chamaesphacos

Herbs annual, subglabrous. Leaves petiolate, subulate-serrate, teeth spinescent. Verticillasters 2-6-flowered, widely spaced basally, crowded apically; bracts subulate. Calyx tubular-campanulate, 10- or 11-veined, dilated in fruit, upper lip 3-toothed, lower lip 2-toothed; teeth triangular, apex subulate-acuminate. Corolla tube slender, much exserted; upper lip straight; lower lip shorter, spreading, 3-lobed; lobes subequal, obovate. Stamens 4, anterior 2 longer; filaments inserted on corolla throat, shorter than upper corolla lip; anthers oblong, cells 2, divaricate. Style apex subequally 2-cleft, lobes subulate. Nutlets black, oblong, smooth, sometimes scaly spotted, narrowly membranous winged.[3] [more]

Chloanthes

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Clerodendrum

Clerodendrum is a genus of flowering plants in the family Lamiaceae. Its common names include glorybower, bagflower and bleeding-heart. It is currently classified in the subfamily Ajugoideae, being one of several genera transferred from Verbenaceae to Lamiaceae in the 1990s, based on phylogenetic analysis of morphological and molecular data. [more]

Clinopodium

Clinopodium is a genus of about 13 species of flowering plants in the family Lamiaceae [more]

Colebrookea

Shrubs gynodioecious, erect, densely lanate-tomentose. Stems yellow-brown. Leaves sometimes in whorls of 3, oblong-elliptic, dentate. Panicles terminal, branches spicate, pedunculate; verticillasters subtended by linear bracts, ± united at base, involucrelike. Flowers white, sessile. Calyx campanulate, tube very short; teeth 5, subulate, plumose, elongate, spinescent, ± adnate to nutlets in fruit. Corolla tube to slightly longer than calyx in pistillate flowers, much longer in bisexual flowers; limb ± 2-lipped, upper lip emarginate; lower lip 3-lobed, middle lobe longer. Stamens 4, subequal, free, included in pistillate flowers, exserted in bisexual flowers; filaments glabrous; anthers subglobose, 1-locellate. Style slightly exserted in bisexual flowers, much exserted in pistillate flowers, apex equally 2-cleft; lobes subulate to linear, divaricate. Nutlets ovoid, apex villous.[4] [more]

Collinsonia

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Comanthosphace

Plants rhizomatous perennial, herbs or subshrubs. Stems usually unbranched, erect. Leaves petiolate or subsessile, dentate. Verticillasters 6-10-flowered, in long, terminal, densely white stellate tomentose spikes; bracts leaflike or scalelike, early deciduous; bracteoles indistinct, minute. Calyx tubular-campanulate, inconspicuously 10-veined, stellate tomentose outside, glabrous inside; teeth 5, short triangular, apex acute, anterior 2 longer. Corolla reddish to purple, 2-lipped; tube funnelform, villous annulate near middle; upper lip 2-lobed or occasionally entire; lower lip 3-lobed, middle lobe ovate, spreading, concave, ± saccate; lateral lobes erect, smaller than middle lobe. Stamens 4, anterior 2 longer, much exserted; filaments glabrous; anthers ovoid, cells 1, transversely dehiscent. Ovary brown, glabrous, glandular. Nutlets triquetrous, ellipsoid, yellow-brown, golden glandular.[5] [more]

Congea

Congea is a genus of the Vervain family (Verbenaceae). [more]

Cornutia

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Cuminia

Cuminia is a genus of in the Lamiaceae family. It contains the following species: [more]

Cyanostegia

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Cymaria

Shrubs erect. Stems much branched; branches densely floccose-strigose. Petiole ± narrowly winged; leaf blade ovate to ovate-rhombic, margin dentate. Cymes axillary, dichotomous or helicoid, pedunculate, lax; bracts subulate to oblanceolate, persistent, minute. Calyx erect, campanulate, inconspicuously 10-veined, suburceolate and conspicuously veined in fruit; teeth 5, equal, triangular, apically acute. Corolla white, tube cylindric, straight, slightly exserted, somewhat bearded annulate inside, 2-lipped; upper lip erect, slightly concave, entire; lower lip enlarged, spreading, 3-lobed, middle lobe largest. Stamens 4, exserted from upper lip of corolla, anterior 2 longer; anther cells 2, divaricate. Ovary apically hairy. Style unequally 2-cleft. Nutlets obovoid, conspicuously pitted, areole lateral and large.[6] [more]

Dicrastylis

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Dracocephalum

Dracocephalum is a genus of about 45 species of flowering plants in the family Lamiaceae, native to temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere. They are annual or perennial herbaceous plants or subshrubs, growing to 15-90 cm tall. [more]

Dysophylla

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Elsholtzia

Herbs, subshrubs, or shrubs. Verticillasters in continuous or interrupted spikes or capitula; spikes cylindric or secund, often compact, sometimes in panicles; bracts ovate or flabellate to minute, narrower than calyx. Calyx campanulate or cylindric, throat glabrous; teeth 5, subequal or anterior 2 longer. Corolla white, yellowish, or purplish, 2-lipped, hairy and glandular outside, hairy annulate or glabrous inside; tube to slightly longer than calyx, straight or slightly curved, funnelform; upper lip straight, margin entire or emarginate; lower lip spreading, 3-lobed, lateral lobes entire; middle lobe largest, margin entire, apex erose or emarginate. Stamens 4, usually exserted, anterior 2 longer, rarely undeveloped, free; filaments glabrous; anther cells 2, divergent or divaricate, apex confluent. Ovary glabrous. Style usually exserted beyond stamens, apex deeply to shallowly 2-cleft; lobes subulate, sublinear or clavate, usually equal. Nutlets ovoid to oblong, glabrous or sparsely hairy, tuberculate or smooth.[7] [more]

Englerastrum

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Eremostachys

Herbs perennial, erect. Basal leaves largest, margin coarsely serrate to incised-pinnatipartite. Verticillasters many flowered, widely spaced or in long robust spikes, densely lanate-villous or glabrous. Flowers sessile. Calyx tubular-campanulate to broadly funnelform, 5-toothed, sometimes limb dilated, 5-apiculate; teeth short, broadly truncate, rounded, ovate or triangular, apex spiny; sinuses between teeth with ovate-triangular appendages. Corolla 2-lipped; tube mostly included, narrow; upper lip narrow, galeate or falcate, concave, narrowed at base, bearded or villous inside and on margin; lower lip spreading, 3-lobed, middle lobe largest. Stamens 4, anterior 2 longer; some filaments with comblike-fimbriate appendages at base; anther cells 2, divaricate. Style unequally 2-cleft, anterior lobe larger. Nutlets obovoid, triquetrous, subtruncate, densely bearded at apex.[8] [more]

Eriope

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Eusteralis

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Faradaya

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Galeobdolon

Shrubs or annual or biennial herbs. Leaves petiolate; blade margin dentate. Verticillasters 2-8-flowered; bracts shorter than calyx, linear, early deciduous. Calyx campanulate, hairy outside, glabrous except for hairy teeth inside, 5-veined; teeth 5, lanceolate, posterior 3 slightly larger than anterior 2. Corolla purple-red or reddish, 1.5-2 × as long as calyx, 2-lipped, hairy especially on upper lip outside; tube slightly exserted, hairy annulate inside; upper lip straight, oblong, rarely obovate, emarginate, rarely as long as tube; lower lip spreading, 3-lobed, middle lobe obcordate to obovate, lateral lobes subcircular to ovate. Stamens 4, anterior 2 longer; anthers ovoid, cells 2, divaricate. Ovary lobes truncate, glabrous or rarely minutely hispid at apex. Style apex subequally 2-cleft. Nutlets triquetrous, oblong, obovoid, to obconical, base attenuate, apex subtruncate, glabrous or short hairy.[9] [more]

Galeopsis

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Garrettia

Shrubs. Leaves opposite, simple or 3-lobed. Cymes usually axillary, with monochasial branches. Flowers minute. Calyx campanulate, minutely 5-dentate or subtruncate. Corolla 2-lipped, lower lip 3-lobed, upper lip usually 2-lobed, lobes entire. Stamens didynamous, shorter or longer than corolla. Ovary 2-locular when young, becoming 4-locular; ovules 1 per locule. Stigma 2-cleft. Fruiting calyx inflated. Schizocarp globose, reticulately ridged, breaking into 4 mericarps each enclosing 1 seed.[10] [more]

Glechoma

Glechoma is a genus of 12 species of flowering plants in the mint family, and is native to much of Europe and Asia. The stems root at the nodes, often forming extensive mats ot coarsely toothed, rounded or broadly oval, soft hairy leaves. The ascending shoots bear pairs of small, tubular, 2-lipped flowers in the leaf axils in summer. The genus is closely related to the genera Nepeta, Stachys and Prunella. [more]

Glossocarya

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Gmelina

Gmelina is a genus of plant in family Verbenaceae (or Lamiaceae). It was named in honour of botanist Johann Friedrich Gmelin. It contains the following species (but this list may be incomplete): [more]

Gomphostemma

Shrubs or perennial herbs. Stems with stellate hairs. Leaves petiolate; leaf blade margin serrate, adaxially stellate puberulent/hirsute, abaxially densely stellate lanate. Inflorescences axillary, sometimes basal, rarely terminal, cymes pedunculate or sessile, sometimes in spikes or panicles; bracts subcircular to linear-lanceolate. Calyx campanulate to tubular, 10-veined, 5-toothed, teeth equal or subequal. Corolla purple-red or yellow to white, 2-lipped, straight or curved, long exserted; tube abruptly or gradually dilated at throat, not hairy annulate inside; upper lip straight, slightly galeate, entire or emarginate, sometimes mucronulate; lower lip spreading, 3-lobed, middle lobe longest. Stamens 4, underlying upper lip, anterior 2 longest; filaments complanate, hairy on two sides or glabrous; anthers close together in pairs, cells parallel, transverse. Style included, apically subequally 2-cleft. Nutlets 1-4 maturing per flower, obovoid to ovoid, rarely globose, rugulose, glabrous or hirsute, drupelike, areole oblique.[11] [more]

Haumaniastrum

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Hedeoma

Hedeoma, or the false pennyroyal, is a of plants native to North and South America, consisting of about 38 species. [more]

Hemiandra

Hemiandra, commonly known as snakebush, is a genus of plants of the family Lamiaceae. The genus contains eight species, which are all restricted to southwestern Western Australia. They are all prostrate to smallish shrubs allied to Westringia. The red, lilac, pink, or white flowers are 2-lipped, the lower lip enlarged and spotted. The stiff, narrow leaves often have prickly tips. [more]

Hemigenia

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Hemiphora

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Holmskioldia

Holocheila

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Horminum

Horminum is a of flowering plants in the family Lamiaceae, comprising a single species, Horminum pyrenaicum, native to rocky slopes and grasslands in the Pyrenees and Alps in western Europe. Common names include Dragonmouth and Pyrenean Dead-nettle. [more]

Hormium

Hosea

Hoslundia

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Huxleya

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Hymenocrater

Hymenopyramis

Shrubs, climbing, or small trees. Leaves opposite. Inflorescences terminal or axillary irregular thyrses. Calyx minutely 4-dentate in flower. Corolla nearly funnelform; lobes 4, unequal, spreading. Stamens 4, inserted at corolla throat; anthers ovate, dehiscing by longitudinal slits. Ovary 2-locular; ovules 2 per locule. Style exserted; stigma 2-cleft. Fruiting calyx tube greatly inflated, bladderlike, translucently membranous, with reticulate veins, teeth remaining minute. Fruit a globose schizocarp.[12] [more]

Hypenia

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Hyptidendron

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Hyptis

Hyptis is a genus of flowering plant in the Lamiaceae family. These plants, known commonly as bushmints, are widespread in the tropics and warmer temperate regions of the Americas. There are 300 to 400 species, which may be annual or perennial, and small herb to large shrub. [more]

Hyssopus

Hyssop (Hyssopus) is a genus of about 10-12 species of herbaceous or semi-woody plants in the family Lamiaceae, native from the east Mediterranean to central Asia. They are aromatic, with erect branched stems up to 60 cm long covered with fine hairs at the tips. The leaves are narrow oblong, 2?5 cm long. The small blue flowers are borne on the upper part of the branches during summer. By far the best-known species is the Herb Hyssop (H. officinalis), widely cultivated outside its native area in the Mediterranean. [more]

Karomia

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Keiskea

Herbs or subshrubs. Leaves petiolate, dentate. Verticillasters 2-flowered, in terminal and axillary racemes; bracts persistent, somewhat lax or imbricate. Calyx campanulate, sparsely hairy, throat tufted hairy at each tooth sinus or pilose annulate; teeth 5, subequal or posterior tooth smaller. Corolla white, yellowish, or purple; tube funnelform to subcylindric, annulate; upper lip 2-lobed; middle lobe of lower lip flat; longer than circular lateral lobes. Stamens 4, exserted or rarely included, anterior 2 longer; filaments separate, glabrous, edentate; anther cells 2, divergent, apex confluent. Style filiform, apex 2-cleft; lobes subulate or ± linear, equal or unequal. Nutlets subglobose, glabrous.[13] [more]

Lachnostachys

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Lagochilus

Subshrubs or perennial herbs. Rootstocks woody. Stems green-white, rigid, sparsely hirsute. Leaf blade rhombic, palmatipartite or pinnatipartite; lobes spinescent, sometimes subtending sterile spinescent bracteoles. Verticillasters 2-10-flowered. Calyx campanulate to tubular-campanulate, 5-veined; throat oblique, straight; teeth 5, subequal or 3 posterior teeth longer, triangular to oblong or broadly ovate, usually longer than tube, apex spinescent. Corolla villous outside, pilose annulate inside, 2-lipped; upper lip oblong, straight, slightly concave, 2-lobed or 4-toothed; lower lip obliquely spreading, 3-lobed; middle lobe largest, obcordate, 2-lobulate; lateral lobes straight, acute, or emarginate. Stamens 4, exserted or subincluded, anterior 2 longer; filaments complanate; anther cells 2, parallel or divergent, ciliate. Style filiform, apex subequally 2-cleft. Nutlets flattened-obconical, oblong-obovoid or oblong-ovoid, apex truncate or rounded, glandular, dusty hairy, scaly or glabrous, smooth.[14] [more]

Lagopsis

A genus in the Kingdom Animalia. [more]

Lallemantia

Lallemantia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Lamiaceae. [more]

Lamium

Lamium (deadnettle) is a genus of about 40-50 species of flowering plants in the family Lamiaceae, of which family it is the type genus. They are all herbaceous plants native to Europe, Asia, and north Africa, but several have become very successful weeds of crop fields and are now widely naturalised across the temperate world. [more]

Lavandula

The lavenders (botanic name Lavandula) are a genus of 39 species of flowering plants in the mint family, Lamiaceae. It is an Old World genus, found from Cape Verde and Canary Islands, southern Europe across to northern and eastern Africa, the Mediterranean, south-west Asia to south-east India. Many members of the genus are cultivated extensively in temperate climates as ornamental plants for garden and landscape use, and also commercially for the extraction of essential oils. [more]

Leonorus

Leonotis

The genus Leonotis (Lion's Ear or Lion's-Tail) consists of about 40 species of in the family Lamiaceae. [more]

Leonurus

Leonurus is a genus of flowering plants in the family Lamiaceae. [more]

Lepechinia

Lepechinia is a genus of plants in the . It includes several species of plants known commonly as pitchersages (also pitcher sages). Plants of this genus can be found in South America, Mexico, California, and Hawaii. Many of them bear attractive pitcher-shaped flowers, often in shades of purple. The genus was named for the Russian botanist Ivan Ivanovich Lepechin. [more]

Leucas

Herbs or subshrubs. Leaves entire or dentate. Verticillasters few to many flowered, widely spaced, uniform or reduced in size at end of branches. Calyx tubular to obconical, rarely dilated, 10-veined, straight or curved, truncate or oblique at throat, projected on posterior side; teeth 8-10, usually equal in size. Corolla usually white, rarely yellow, purple, brownish, or scarlet, 2-lipped, tube included; upper lip straight, galeate, densely villous outside; lower lip longer, 3-lobed, middle lobe largest. Stamens ascending beneath upper lip of corolla, close together in pairs; anther cells 2, ovoid, divaricate, apex confluent, often orange. Style unequally 2-cleft at apex, posterior lobe short or obsolete. Nutlets ovoid, triquetrous, subtruncate at apex.[15] [more]

Leucosceptrum

Shrubs to small trees, bark smooth, stellate-tomentose. Leaves petiolate. Verticillasters in dense, terminal cylindric spikes; bracts subreniform, densely overlapping; bracteoles minute, linear. Pedicel short. Calyx campanulate, densely tomentose, slightly curved, 15-veined; teeth 5(-7), equal, triangular. Corolla white or reddish to purple-red, tubular, with a hairy annulus inside; limb 2-lipped, upper lip emarginate; lower lip 3-lobed, middle lobe larger. Stamens 4, anterior 2 longer, inserted at middle of corolla tube; filaments slender, densely puberulent at base, involute in bud, much exserted in flower; anthers 1-locellate, reniform, transversely dehiscent, basifixed. Ovary 4-lobed, tuberculate. Style slender, apex subequally 2-cleft, lobes subulate. Disc subannular, equally shallow 4-lobed. Nutlets triquetrous, oblong, apex truncate, areolae basal.[16] [more]

Lophanthus

Herbs perennial. Stem leaves short petiolate to sessile, dentate or incised-toothed. Cymes axillary; bracts small, linear-lanceolate to linear, rarely lanceolate. Calyx tubular to tubular-campanulate, straight or ± incurved, apex regular or oblique; teeth 5, subequal, ± 2-lipped [or not], (12-) 15-veined, pilose annulate inside. Corolla straight or incurved; tube exserted, gradually dilated upward, twisted; limb 2-lipped, twisted at 90-180° so that position of lips is ± reversed; upper lip (true lower) 3-lobed, middle lobe largest; lower lip (true upper) 2-lobed. Stamens 4, exserted or included; anther cells parallel or almost not divergent. Style exserted, rarely included, apex equally or subequally 2-cleft. Nutlets brown, oblong-ovoid, slightly flattened, smooth.[17] [more]

Lophantus

Lycopus

Lycopus (Gypsywort or Bugleweed) is a genus of about a dozen species of flowering plants in the family Lamiaceae. They are all herbaceous plants native to Europe, northwest Asia, and North America. The species are most often found in wetlands, damp meadows, and stream banks. Some of the wetland species have become endangered . [more]

Mallophora

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Marrubium

Marrubium (horehound or hoarhound) is a genus of about 40 species of in the family Lamiaceae, native to temperate regions of Europe and Asia. [more]

Melissa

Melissa is a given name for a female child. The name comes from the Greek word ????ssa (melissa), "honey bee", which in turn comes from ???? (meli), "honey". In Ireland it is sometimes used as a feminine form of the Gaelic male name Maoil?osa, which means "servant of Jesus." Melissa also refers to the plant known as lemon balm (family Lamiaceae; genus and species Melissa officinalis). [more]

Melittis

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Mentha

Mentha (also known as Mint, from Greek m?ntha, Linear B mi-ta) is a genus of flowering plants in the family Lamiaceae (mint family). The species are not clearly distinct and estimates of the number of species varies from 13 to 18. Hybridization between some of the species occurs naturally. Many other hybrids as well as numerous cultivars are known in cultivation. The genus has a subcosmopolitan distribution across Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia, and North America. [more]

Meriandra

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Metastachydium

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Microcorys

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Micromeria

Micromeria is a genus of flowering plant in the Lamiaceae family. It contains the following species: [more]

Moluccella

Moluccella is a of four species of annual and short-lived perennial plants native to northwestern India to the Mediterranean. They are tall, upright, branched plants to 1 meter or more with toothed leaves and small white fragrant flowers. [more]

Monarda

Monarda is a genus consisting of roughly 16 species of erect, herbaceous, annual or perennial plants in the family Lamiaceae. The genus is endemic to North America. Ranging in height from 1 to 3 feet (0.2 to 0.9 m), the plants have an equal spread, with slender and long-tapering (lanceolate) leaves. The leaves are opposite on the stem, smooth to sparsely hairy, with lightly serrated margins, and ranging from 3 to 6 inches (7 to 14 cm) in length. In all species, the leaves, when crushed, exude a spicy, highly fragrant oil. Of the species examined in one study, M. didyma (Oswego Tea) was found to contain the highest concentration of this oil. Common names include bee balm, horsemint, oswego tea, and bergamot, the last one due to the leaves' fragrance resembling that of Citrus bergamia fruits. The genus was named for Nicol?s Monardes, who wrote a book in 1574 describing plants found in the New World. [more]

Monochilus

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Mosla

Herbs aromatic, annual. Leaves petiolate, dentate, abaxially conspicuously impressed glandular. Verticillasters 2-flowered, in terminal racemes; bracts small or lower ones leaflike. Flowers pedicellate. Calyx campanulate, 10-veined, throat hairy, limb subequally 5-toothed or 2-lipped; upper lip 3-toothed, teeth acute to obtuse; lower lip 2-toothed, teeth lanceolate; fruiting calyx dilated, with base swollen on 1 side. Corolla white or rose to purple-red, tube glabrous or hairy annulate inside; limb nearly 2-lipped, upper lip emarginate; lower lip 3-lobed, margin crenate; lateral lobes smaller than middle lobe, emarginate. Stamens 4, posterior 2 fertile, anterior 2 reduced, with indistinct anther cells; anther cells 2, divaricate. Style apex subequally to equally 2-cleft. Nutlets subglobose to globose, sparsely netted or pitted with small depressions; areolae basal, dotlike.[18] [more]

Nepeta

Nepeta is a genus of about 250 species of flowering plants in the family Lamiaceae. The members of this group are known as catnip or catmint because of their effect on cats?the nepetalactone contained in nepeta binds to the olfactory receptors of cats, typically resulting in temporary euphoria .[] Catmints are also used in herbal medicine for their mild sedative effect on humans.[unreliable source?] Chemical compounds isolated from Nepeta cataria inhibit calcineurin in vitro.[relevant? ? discuss] Nepeta cataria also has insect repellent properties. [more]

Newcastelia

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Ocimum

Ocimum is a genus of about 35 species of aromatic annual and perrenial herbs and shrubs in the family Lamiaceae, native to the tropical and warm temperate regions of the Old World. [more]

Oncinocalyx

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Origanum

Origanum is a genus of about 20 species of aromatic herbs in the family Lamiaceae, native to the Mediterranean region east to eastern Asia. The genus includes some important culinary herbs, including Marjoram and Oregano. [more]

Orthosiphon

A Genus in the Kingdom Plantae. [more]

Otostegia

Oxera

Oxera is a genus of in family Verbenaceae. [more]

Panzerina

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Paravitex

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Perilla

Perilla is the common name for the herbs, known ethnically by various names, but now classified under the single species Perilla frutescens of the mint family, Lamiaceae. [more]

Perillula

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Perilomia

Peronema

Perovskia

Perovskia is a genus in the Lamiaceae or mint family, closely related to the genus Salvia (sages), and native to southwestern and central Asia. The genus comprises seven species, including the garden plant commonly known as Russian Sage. [more]

Petraeovitex

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Phlomis

Phlomis is a genus of about 100 species of herbaceous plants, subshrubs and shrubs in the family Lamiaceae, native from the Mediterranean region east across central Asia to China. Common names include Jerusalem Sage and Lampwick Plant. [more]

Phyllostegia

Phyllostegia is a genus of flowering plant in the mint family, Lamiaceae. [more]

Physostegia

The genus Physostegia is a group of perennial plants and is part of the Lamiaceae family. [more]

Pityrodia

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Platostoma

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Plectranthus

Plectranthus, with some 350 species, is a genus of warm-climate plants occurring largely in the southern hemisphere, in sub-Saharan Africa, Madagascar, India and the Indonesian archipelago down to Australia and some Pacific islands. It is closely related to Solenostemon and known as the spurflowers. Several species are grown as ornamental plants, as leaf vegetables, as root vegetables for their edible tubers, or as medicine. [more]

Pogostemon

Pogostemon is a large genus from the family Lamiaceae. The best known member of this genus is Patchouli. [more]

Prasium

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Premna

Premna is a genus of plant in family Verbenaceae. It contains the following species (but this list may be incomplete): [more]

Prostanthera

Prostanthera, commonly known as Mintbush, is a genus of plants of the family Lamiaceae. There are about 90 species within the genus, all of which are endemic to Australia. The word is derived from the Greek, which refers to an appendage. Within the flowers are small spur-like appendages on the anthers. [more]

Prunella

A Genus in the Kingdom Animalia.[19] [more]

Pseudocarpidium

Pycnostachys

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Renschia

Rosmarinus

Rosmarinus is a small genus of woody, perennial herb with fragrant evergreen needle-like leaves in the family Lamiaceae, native to the Mediterranean region. [more]

Rostrinucula

Shrubs, usually stellate tomentose throughout. Spikes terminal, elongated, pendulous or nodding, cylindric, of numerous, dense, 6-10-flowered verticillasters; bracts broadly triangular-ovate, glabrous inside, early deciduous; bracteoles narrowly elliptic to sublinear, early deciduous. Calyx campanulate, 10-veined, glabrous inside; teeth 5, subequal, anterior 2 wider. Corolla reddish to purple-red, 2-lipped, exserted part glandular, irregularly hairy annulate on a crescent protuberance just below base of anterior lobe inside and at base of filaments; tube exserted or nearly included; upper lip erect, margin entire; lower lip 3-lobed, middle lobe larger, concave-saccate; lateral lobes subequal to upper lip, or upper lip narrower and circular-ovate. Stamens 4, inserted at corolla throat, exserted, subequal or posterior 2 slightly longer; filaments glabrous; anthers subglobose, apex equally 2-cleft. Ovary brown, 4-lobed, stellate, glandular. Nutlets triquetrous, ellipsoid, brown, stellate tomentose, glandular; beak recurved or suberect.[20] [more]

Rotheca

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Rubiteucris

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Salazaria

Salazaria mexicana, commonly known by variants on bladder sage or paperbag bush, is a shrub of the mint family Lamiaceae distinctive for its calyx lobes that develop into small bag- or bladder-like shells around the fruits. Widespread in the southwestern part of North America, it is the only member of its genus. [more]

Salvia

Salvia is the largest genus of plants in the mint family, Lamiaceae, with approximately 700-900 species of shrubs, herbaceous perennials, and annuals. It is one of several genera commonly referred to as sage. When used without modifiers, sage generally refers to Salvia officinalis ("common sage"); however, it is used with modifiers to refer to any member of the genus. The ornamental species are commonly referred to by their genus name Salvia. [more]

Satureja

Satureja is a of aromatic plants of the family Lamiaceae, related to rosemary and thyme. There are about 30 species called savories, of which Summer Savory and Winter Savory are the most important in cultivation. [more]

Schnabelia

Herbs, perennial. Rhizomes short, thick. Stems and twigs 4-angled, distinctly winged along edges. Leaves opposite, small, simple to deeply 3-lobed and almost palmate, usually early deciduous. Inflorescences axillary, simple cymes or reduced to 1 flower. Flowers usually of 2 kinds, open or cleistogamous. Calyx deeply 4- or 5-lobed, slightly enlarged in fruit, conspicuously 8-10-veined; lobes linear-lanceolate, equal or subequal. Stamens 4, didynamous. Ovary 4-locular; ovules 1 per locule. Stigma slightly 2-cleft. Open flowers with corolla longer than calyx, tube slender, 2-lipped, lower lip 3-lobed, upper lip erect and 2-lobed; stamens exserted; style longer than stamens. Cleistogamous flowers with corolla shorter than calyx; stamens and style shorter than corolla. Nutlets 4, obovate, puberulent, basally obscurely reticulate.[21] [more]

Scutellaria

Scutellaria is a genus of about 300 species of plants commonly known as skullcaps. The genus is widespread in temperate regions and on tropical mountains. [more]

Sideritis

Sideritis syriaca is a plant that grows in the Eastern Mediterranean. In Greece, Sideritis syriaca is known as "Τσάι του βουνού (tsai tou vounou)" or “mountain tea.” In Albania is also known as "mountain tea" (caj mali). The plant is sometimes referred to as Ironwort. [more]

Spartothamnella

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Sphenodesme

Shrubs, climbing. Hairs simple or stellate. Stems lenticellate when young. Leaves opposite, short petiolate, margin entire. Inflorescences capitate cymes, 3-7-flowered, subtended by a whorl of 5 or 6 prominent involucral bracts. Calyx funnelform, 5-dentate, sometimes enlarged or inflated in fruit. Corolla tube short cylindric; lobes 5 (or 6), narrowly lanceolate to ovate-oblong. Stamens 5(-7) ; anthers ovate. Ovary imperfectly 2-locular; ovules 2 per locule, pendulous from apex of a placenta bearing axis. Stigma 2-cleft. Fruit indehiscent, small, obovoid to globose, included or nearly included in calyx, 1- (or 2) -seeded.[22] [more]

Stachyopsis

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Stachys

Stachys is one of the largest genera in the flowering plant family Lamiaceae. Estimates of the number of species in the genus vary from about 300, to about 450. The type species for the genus is Stachys sylvatica. Stachys is in the subfamily . Generic limits and relationships in this subfamily are poorly known. [more]

Stenogyne

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Symphorema

Shrubs, usually climbing. Hairs stellate. Leaves opposite, simple, margin entire or serrate. Inflorescences pedunculate, capitate cymes, subtended by a whorl of 6 prominent involucral bracts. Calyx 5- or 6-dentate. Corolla white, small, tube cylindric, lobes 6-16(-18) . Stamens 6-16(-18) . Ovary 2- or imperfectly 4-locular; ovules 2 per locule, pendulous, only 1 fertile. Capsules indehiscent, included within an enlarged calyx. Cotyledons fleshy, usually with abundant oil.[23] [more]

Teijsmanniodendron

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Tetraclea

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Teucridium

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Teucrium

Teucrium is a genus of perennial plants, of the family Lamiaceae. Common names for this genus include germanders. These species are herbs, shrubs or subshrubs. They are most common in Mediterranean climates. [more]

Thymus

Subshrubs with slender branches arising from usually short, sometimes stout, woody stems. Leaves entire or 1-3-serrulate. Verticillasters in dense capitula or spikes. Flowers pedicellate. Calyx tubular-campanulate to narrowly campanulate, 10-13-veined, 2-lipped, throat white hairy annulate; upper lip spreading or straight, 3-toothed, teeth triangular to lanceolate; lower lip 2-toothed, teeth subulate. Corolla tube included or exserted, 2-lipped; upper lip straight, emarginate; lower lip spreading, 3-lobed, lobes subequal or middle lobe longer. Stamens 4, separate; anterior 2 longer, exserted or included; anther cells 2, parallel or divaricate. Style apex 2-cleft; lobes subulate, equal or subequal. Nutlets ovoid or oblong, smooth.[24] [more]

Tinnea

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Trichostema

Trichostema () is a genus of flowering plants in the Lamiaceae family, which has aromatic herbs or subshrubs. These plants are native to North America. In addition, any plant of this genus which has whorls of small blue flowers is called Blue curls. [more]

Tsoongia

Shrubs or small trees, erect; branchlets, petioles, and peduncles rust colored tomentose when young. Leaves opposite, simple, lobed, or palmately 3-foliolate; petiole long. Cymes axillary, lax, few flowered; peduncle shorter than petioles. Calyx small, campanulate, 2-lipped, lower lip 2-lobed, upper lip entire, outside glandular. Corolla weakly 2-lipped, with elongated tube, throat not bearded but with a ring of minute hairs near base; lobes 4 or 5, subequal, much shorter than tube. Stamens 4, didynamous, inserted at middle of corolla tube, slightly exserted. Ovary 2-locular; ovules 1 or 2 per locule. Style elongate; stigma slightly 2-cleft.[25] [more]

Vitex

Vitex is a genus of about 250 species of shrubs and trees, 1-35 m tall, native to tropical, subtropical and also warm temperate regions throughout the world. In the past widely included in the family Verbenaceae, it has recently been transferred to the family Lamiaceae (Labiatae, the Mint family). [more]

Viticipremna

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Wenchengia

Subshrubs. Stems terete, solid. Leaves alternate, long petiolate. Racemes with spirally arranged flowers. Receptacle disciform, beaked at middle. Calyx funnelform, 19-veined, 5-toothed. Corolla obliquely tubular-campanulate, 2-lipped, upper lip 2-lobed, lower lip 3-lobed. Disc absent. Stamens 4, posterior 2 longest; anther cells 2, divaricate. Ovary apex shallowly 4-lobed, ovules anatropous; style subterminal. Nutlets 4, lower 2 sometimes undeveloped, obovoid, dorsiventrally flattened, with special pore of funicle bundle; exocarp thin, longitudinally 5-ribbed. Embryos erect, radicle directed downward, cotyledons fleshy.[26] [more]

Westringia

Westringia is a genus of Australian shrubs. As with other members of the mint family their upper petal (or lip) is divided into two lobes. There are four stamens - the upper two are fertile while the lower two are reduced to staminodes. The leaves are in whorls of 3 or 4. [more]

Wrixonia

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Ziziphora

Plants annual or perennial, herbaceous or subshrubby. Leaves short petiolate or subsessile; leaf blade abaxially glandular. Verticillasters scattered in leaf axils or crowded in a terminal capitulum; floral leaves as large as stem leaves or reduced. Calyx narrowly cylindric, straight to slightly curved, 13-veined, villous annulate at throat, obscurely 2-lipped, upper lip 3-toothed, lower lip 2-toothed; teeth subequal, close together, rarely divergent following anthesis. Corolla limb 2-lipped; upper lip straight, margin entire, apex emarginate; lower lip spreading, 3-lobed, middle lobe narrower than suborbicular lateral lobes, apex emarginate. Anterior stamens fertile, reaching upper corolla lip, posterior stamens rudimentary, short, or absent; anther cells linear, 2 or only 1 developed, the other reduced to an appendage or absent. Style apex unequally 2-cleft, posterior lobe short. Nutlets ovoid, smooth.[27] [more]

At least 62 species and subspecies belong to the Genus Ziziphora.

More info about the Genus Ziziphora may be found here.

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Footnotes

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  2. "Amethystea". in Flora of China Vol. 17 Page 55. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org.
  3. "Chamaesphacos". in Flora of China Vol. 17 Page 194. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org.
  4. "Colebrookea". in Flora of China Vol. 17 Page 264. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org.
  5. "Comanthosphace". in Flora of China Vol. 17 Page 256. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org.
  6. "Cymaria". in Flora of China Vol. 17 Page 69. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org.
  7. "Elsholtzia". in Flora of China Vol. 17 Page 246. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org.
  8. "Eremostachys". in Flora of China Vol. 17 Page 140. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org.
  9. "Galeobdolon". in Flora of China Vol. 17 Page 158. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org.
  10. Shou-liang Chen & Michael G. Gilbert "Garrettia". in Flora of China Vol. 17 Page 34. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org.
  11. "Gomphostemma". in Flora of China Vol. 17 Page 70. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org.
  12. "Hymenopyramis". in Flora of China Vol. 17 Page 16. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org.
  13. "Keiskea". in Flora of China Vol. 17 Page 257. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org.
  14. "Lagochilus". in Flora of China Vol. 17 Page 166. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org.
  15. "Leucas". in Flora of China Vol. 17 Page 141. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org.
  16. "Leucosceptrum". in Flora of China Vol. 17 Page 245. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org.
  17. "Lophanthus". in Flora of China Vol. 17 Page 106. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org.
  18. "Mosla". in Flora of China Vol. 17 Page 242. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org.
  19. http://www.ubio.org/browser/details.php?namebankID=904
  20. "Rostrinucula". in Flora of China Vol. 17 Page 255. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org.
  21. "Schnabelia". in Flora of China Vol. 17 Page 47. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org.
  22. "Sphenodesme". in Flora of China Vol. 17 Page 48. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org.
  23. Shou-liang Chen & Michael G. Gilbert "Symphorema". in Flora of China Vol. 17 Page 47. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org.
  24. "Thymus". in Flora of China Vol. 17 Page 233. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org.
  25. "Tsoongia". in Flora of China Vol. 17 Page 27. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org.
  26. Xi-wen Li & Ian C. Hedge "Wenchengia". in Flora of China Vol. 17 Page 70. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org.
  27. "Ziziphora". in Flora of China Vol. 17 Page 224. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org.

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