WorldFloraDB - Calamintha

Characteristics

Herbs annual or perennial. Leaves petiolate, dentate. Cymes axillary, 2-12-flowered, short pedunculate; bracts lanceolate-subulate. Calyx tubular to tubular-campanulate, 13-veined, throat not constricted, sparsely hirsute inside, base not or only slightly saccate in fruit, limb 2-lipped; teeth of upper lip 3, reflexed; teeth of lower lip 2, longer than upper teeth, lanceolate. Corolla almost as long as calyx to much exserted, 2-lipped, tube gradually dilated; upper lip emarginate, straight; lower lip reflexed, 3-lobed, middle lobe longer than lateral lobes. Stamens 4, didynamous, all included or anterior 2 exserted; anther cells 2, ± parallel or divergent. Ovary glabrous. Style shorter than corolla, complanate or 2-cleft at apex. Nutlets ovoid, rounded.

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Perennial aromatic herbs, sometimes woody at base. Lvs simple, toothed or entire. Fls in opposite, axillary, usually lax, pedunculate cymes; bracts mostly much < lvs. Calyx tubular, 13-nerved, ± 2-lipped; tube ± straight, hairy inside, not gibbous; upper lip 3-toothed; lower lip 2-toothed, > upper. Corolla 2-lipped; upper lip entire or emarginate; lower lip 3-lobed, with the middle lobe largest; tube straight, glabrous inside. Stamens included, curved and convergent. Style gynobasic, its branches unequal, the upper subulate, the lower longer and wider. Nutlets broadly ovoid to suborbicular.

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Growth form	herb
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