Clinopodium L.

CALAMINTHA Mill.

SATUREJA L.

Description of the genus

Aromatic perennial herbs, subshrubs or shrubs. Leaves opposite, toothed (sometimes entire); margin flat, not thickened. Inflorescence a thyrse, sometimes the cymes reduced to single flowers; bracts similar to stem leaves but becoming smaller in upper part of stem. Calyx 5-lobed, weakly zygomorphic to strongly 2-lipped. Corolla 2-lipped; posterior lip entire, emarginate or 4-toothed; anterior lip 3-lobed, flat. Stamens 4, fertile or upper pair reduced to staminodes, sometimes all sterile in female flowers, ascending under posterior lip. Ovary 4-lobed; style gynobasic. Nutlets trigonous, matt.

Worldwide: C. 110 species, mostly in the New World and temperate Eurasia, some in tropical Africa and Asia

Caprivi: 2 cultivated taxa.

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Species	Content
simense (Benth.) Kuntze
uhligii (Gürke) Ryding[Agg]

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African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): Clinopodium
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