CLINOPODIUML.WILD BASIL

CLINOPODIUML. - WILD BASIL

Scientific Description:

Perennial herbs, pubescent to hirsute-pilose. Leaves shortly petiolate, ± ovate, crenate-serrate. Verticillasters dense or ± spreading, many-flowered, subtended by floral leaves. Bracteoles ± linear or subulate, as long as calyx tube or pedicels. Calyx tube curved, but not saccate, 13-veined, hairy, bilabiate, lower teeth always long-ciliate. Corolla purple or pink (rarely white), tube exserted, exannulate, upper lip emarginate, lower lip 3-lobed. Stamens 4, lower pair longer than upper but all shorter than corolla; thecae divergent. Style branches very unequal, the lower oblong-lingulate, much larger than the upper lanceolate one. Nutlets subglobose, glabrous.

Reference:

Leblebici E (1982). Clinopodium L., In: Davis PH (ed.), Flora of Turkey and the East Aegean Islands, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 7: 329.

Public Description:

Clinopodium is a genus of perennial herbs, known as “wild basil”, and is native to East Asia, East and South Europe, the Caucasus, northern Iran, the Himalayas, Eastern Siberia, and North America. There are approximately 148 species in the world and 21 species (31 taxa) in Türkiye. In Mexico, some species is used as a tea for cure hangovers, stomach aches, and liver disease.

References:

Anonymous 1 (2016). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinopodium/, Accessed date: 14.02.2016.

Anonymous 2 (2016). http://www.theplantlist.org/1.1/browse/A/Lamiaceae/Clinopodium/, Accessed date: 14.02.2016.

Dirmenci T (2012). Clinopodium L., In: Güner, A., Aslan, S., Ekim, T., Vural, M. & Babaç, M.T. (eds.), Türkiye Bitkileri Listesi (Damarlı Bitkiler). Nezahat Gökyiğit Botanik Bahçesi ve Flora Araştırmaları Derneği Yayını. İstanbul, pp. 550–553.