Biology:Cunila

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Short description: Genus of flowering plants

Cunila
Cunila origanoides.jpg
Cunila origanoides
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Lamiales
Family: Lamiaceae
Subfamily: Nepetoideae
Tribe: Mentheae
Genus: Cunila
D.Royen ex L.
Synonyms[1]
  • Mappia Heist. ex Fabr rejected name
  • Hedyosmos Mitch.

Cunila is a genus of plants in the Lamiaceae, first described in 1759. It is native to North and South America.[1][2][3][4][5][6]

Species[1]
  1. Cunila angustifolia Benth. - southern Brazil, Misiones Province of Argentina
  2. Cunila crenata García-Peña & Tenorio - State of Durango in Mexico
  3. Cunila fasciculata Benth. - southern Brazil
  4. Cunila galioides Benth. - Brazil
  5. Cunila incana Benth. - southern Brazil, Argentina
  6. Cunila incisa Benth. - southern Brazil
  7. Cunila leucantha Kunth ex Schltdl. & Cham. - Mexico (Veracruz, Guerrero, Oaxaca, Chiapas), Central America (Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Panama)
  8. Cunila lythrifolia Benth. - central + southern Mexico
  9. Cunila menthiformis Epling - southern Brazil
  10. Cunila menthoides Benth. - Uruguay
  11. Cunila microcephala Benth. - southern Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay
  12. Cunila origanoides (L.) Britton - central + eastern United States from Texas and Kansas east to New York and Georgia
  13. Cunila platyphylla Epling - southern Brazil
  14. Cunila polyantha Benth. - Mexico (from Zacatecas and Jalisco south to Chiapas), Central America (Guatemala, Honduras, Panama)
  15. Cunila pycnantha B.L.Rob. & Greenm. - Mexico (from Sinaloa and Durango south to Chiapas)
  16. Cunila ramamoorthiana M.R.Garcia-Pena - Mexico (Guerrero)
  17. Cunila spicata Benth. - southern Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay
  18. Cunila tenuifolia Epling - southern Brazil

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  2. Biota of North America Program 2013 county distribution map
  3. Xifreda, C.C. & Mallo, A.C. (2006). El género Cunila (Lamiaceae, Mentheae) en Argentina. Darwiniana 44: 298-308.
  4. Davidse, G., M. Sousa Sánchez, S. Knapp & F. Chiang Cabrera. 2012. Rubiaceae a Verbenaceae. 4(2): i–xvi, 1–533. In G. Davidse, M. Sousa Sánchez, S. Knapp & F. Chiang Cabrera (eds.) Flora Mesoamericana. Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St. Louis.
  5. Forzza, R. C. 2010. Lista de espécies Flora do Brasil "Archived copy". http://floradobrasil.jbrj.gov.br/2010. . Jardim Botânico do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro
  6. Molina Rosito, A. 1975. Enumeración de las plantas de Honduras. Ceiba 19(1): 1–118.

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