7328.000 Mentha L. - Mints

Meerts, P. (2025) Labiatae sous-familles VI. Nepetoideae et VII. Tectonoideae, Addendum a la sous-famille V. Lamioideae Flore d'Afrique Centrale Nouvelle Serie Jardin Botanique Meise, Belgique

Description of the genus

Perennial herbs (ours), with a characteristic minty smell. Leaves opposite. Inflorescences terminal and axillary, spike-like. Flowers small; bracts leaf-like, smaller than leaves; bracteoles linear. Calyx 10-nerved, ± equally 5-toothed. Corolla obscurely 2-lipped, 4-lobed. Stamens 4, ± equal, spreading, exserted. Nutlets ovoid.

Worldwide: 25 species in the temperate Old World

Zimbabwe: 1 taxon.

Links to taxa: View: living plant images - herbarium specimen images - all images for this genus

Species	FZ divisions	Content
longifolia (L.) Huds. subsp. capensis (Thunb.) Briq.	N,W,C,E	Description, Image

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Flora of Zimbabwe: cultivated Mentha

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Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Mentha
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