Overview
Interesting Facts
Common Names
Common Names in English:
Tropical Bushmint
Description
Genus Hyptis
Herbs, subshrubs
, or shrubs
, erect
. Leaves dentate
. Bracts subulate
to spinescent
. Flowers in capitula, compact
spikes, or loose
panicles. Calyx tubular-campanulate to tubular
, erect to oblique
, 10-veined, throat
tufted
villous
or glabrous
; teeth 5, subequal
, straight; fruiting calyx dilated. Corolla 2-lipped; tube
cylindric
to swollen on 1 side, nearly cylindric to narrowly funnelform
; upper lip 2-lobed, lobes
erect, spreading
, or reflexed
; lower lip 3-lobed, middle
lobe saccate, reflexed in flower, base
constricted
, sometimes with projected
teeth; lateral
lobes similar, conspicuous
, close together to lobes of upper lip or to middle lobe. Stamens 4, anterior 2 longer
, declined; filaments
free
, edentate
; anther
cells
2, apically confluent
. Style apex 2-cleft or subentire
. Disc entire or slightly swollen in front. Nutlets
ovoid
to oblong
, smooth
or dotted
, scabrid
, membranous winged
in a few species.
Some 350-400 species: tropical
and subtropical
regions of the New World, four naturalized
species in China.[1]
Habitat
Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 4,002 meters (0 to 13,130 feet).[2]
Biology
Growth
Sunlight: Sun Exposure: Full sun .
Taxonomy
- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- eukaryotes
- Kingdom:
Plantae
()
- Haeckel, 1866
- Plants
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
()
- Cavalier-Smith, 1981
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
()
- Sinnott, 1935 ex Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Vascular Plants
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
()
- (Auct.) Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Infraphylum:
Angiospermae
()
- Auct.
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
()
- Brongniart, 1843
- Dicotyledons
- Subclass:
Asteridae
()
- Takhtajan, 1967
- Superorder:
Lamianae
()
- Takhtajan, 1967
- Order:
Lamiales
()
- Bromhead, 1838
- Family:
Labiatae
()
- A.L. de Jussieu, 1789, nom. cons., nom. alt.
- Subfamily:
Nepetoideae
()
- Tribe:
Ocimeae
()
- Subtribe:
Hyptidinae
()
- Genus:
Hyptis
()
- N.J. Jacquin, 1787, nom. cons.
- Bushmint
- Specific epithet:
mutabilis
- (A. Rich.) Briq.
- Botanical name: - Hyptis mutabilis (A. Rich.) Briq.
- Specific epithet:
mutabilis
- (A. Rich.) Briq.
- Genus:
Hyptis
(
- Subtribe:
Hyptidinae
(
- Tribe:
Ocimeae
(
- Subfamily:
Nepetoideae
(
- Family:
Labiatae
(
- Order:
Lamiales
(
- Superorder:
Lamianae
(
- Subclass:
Asteridae
(
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
(
- Infraphylum:
Angiospermae
(
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
(
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
(
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
(
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
Synonyms
Hyptis mutabilis var. spicata (Poit.) Briq.
Notes
Name
Status: Accepted Name
.
Last scrutiny: 15-Mar-2000
Similar Species
Members of the genus Hyptis
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 13 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:
H. alata (Cluster Bushmint) · H. americana (American Bushmint) · H. atrorubens (Marubio Oscuro) · H. capitata (False Ironwort) · H. chamaedrys (Ortela) · H. emoryi (Desert Lavender) · H. escobilla (Bayamon) · H. lantanifolia (Island Bushmint) · H. mutabilis (Tropical Bushmint) · H. pectinata (Comb Bushmint) · H. spicigera (American Bushmint) · H. suaveolens (Mumutun) · H. verticillata (Hyptis Bushmint)
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Further Reading
- An enumeration of the vascular plants known from Surinam: together with their distribution and synonymy / by A. Pulle. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1906. url p. 405, p. 528.
- Contributions from the United States National Herbarium 27 1928 Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1890- url p. 326.
- Fifty years of botany; golden jubilee volume of the Botanical Society of America, edited by William Campbell Steere. New York, McGraw-Hill, 1958. url p. 322.
- Flood tolerance of plant species in bottomland forests of the southeastern United States / 1992. url p. 156, p. 196.
- Flora Malesiana. general editor, C.G.G.J. van Steenis. Djakarta: Noordhoff-Kolff, 1950- url p. 372.
- Flora of Costa Rica. .. by Paul C. Standley. .. 18 1938 Chicago, 1937. url p. 1018.
- Flora of Guatemala / Paul C. Standley and Louis O. Williams. 24 1973 Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, 1973. url p. 254.
- Flora of Peru / by J. Francis Macbride. 13 1960 Chicago, U.S.A.: Field Museum of Natural History, [1936] url p. 732, p. 735, p. 738.
- Foraging selectivity in adult butterflies: morphological, ecological, and physiological factors affecting flower choice / by Peter Gregory May. 1985. url p. 63, p. 68, p. 70, p. 94.
- Jenaische Zeitschrift für Naturwissenschaft. Jena, Gustav Fischer [etc.]. url p. 360, p. 362, p. 363.
- Journal of ethnobiology. 8-9 1988-1989 Flagstaff, Ariz.: Center for Western Studies, 1981- url p. 51, p. 68.
- Manual of the southeastern flora: being descriptions of the seed plants growing naturally in Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, eastern Louisiana, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia. 1933 New York: The author, 1933. url p. 1180.
- Occasional papers of the California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco: California Academy of Sciences, url p. 29.
- Phytologia memoirs. Plainfield, N.J.: H.N. Moldenke and A.L. Moldenke, 1980- url p. 247.
- Phytologia. Bronx Park, New York, H.A. Gleason and H.N. Moldenke, url p. 385, p. 387, p. 491.
- Useful plants of the Siona and Secoya Indians of eastern Ecuador / William T. Vickers, Timothy Plowman. 15 1984 Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, 1984. url p. 16.
- Woods of northeastern Peru, by Llewelyn Williams. 15 1936 Chicago, 1936. url p. 551, p. 555.
Notes
Contributors
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 11, 2012.
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal November 22, 2007:
- Botanical Research Institute of Texas, Andes to Amazon Biodiversity Program
- Herbarium of the University of Aarhus, The AAU Herbarium Database
- Herbier de la Guyane, Herbier de la Guyane
- Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad
- , Biodiversidad de Costa Rica
- Missouri Botanical Garden, Missouri Botanical Garden
- SysTax, Herbarium Universitat Ulm
- SysTax, Royal Botanic Gardens
- SysTax, SysTax
- SysTax, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso
- USDA PLANTS, USDA PLANTS Database
- University of Alabama Biodiversity and Systematics, Herbarium
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2655155
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-32525
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13746350
- Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:448262-1
- GRIN Nomen Number: 19640
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 32525
- Natural Heritage Network Species Identifier: PDLAM0N080
- U.S.D.A. Plant Symbol: HYMUS
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 43861
Footnotes
- "Hyptis". in Flora of China Vol. 17 Page 267. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
- Mean = 423.270 meters (1,388.681 feet), Standard Deviation = 618.600 based on 396 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
