Monographs Details:
Authority:
Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp.
Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp.
Family:
Lamiaceae
Lamiaceae
Description:
Family Description - Fls sympetalous, hypogynous, perfect (seldom some unisexual), usually irregular, the cor typically bilabiate and 5-lobed, sometimes 4-lobed by fusion; cal gamosepalous, often oblique at the throat, regular or irregular; stamens 2 or 4, inserted on the cor-tube, the anthers often connivent, the pollen-sacs sometimes partly confluent or one sac suppressed; ovary of 4 essentially distinct, uniovulate segments united only by their gynobasic style, or the ovary less commonly merely 4-lobed for a third or more of its length, so that the style arises from between its lobes but is not gynobasic; style shortly bifid at the tip, one lobe often reduced; fr of (1–)4 1-seeded nutlets; embryo with 2 cotyledons; endosperm none or very scanty; aromatic plants with quadrangular stems and opposite, simple lvs, ours all herbs or low shrubs. (Labiatae, nom. altern.) 200/3200, cosmop.
Family Description - Fls sympetalous, hypogynous, perfect (seldom some unisexual), usually irregular, the cor typically bilabiate and 5-lobed, sometimes 4-lobed by fusion; cal gamosepalous, often oblique at the throat, regular or irregular; stamens 2 or 4, inserted on the cor-tube, the anthers often connivent, the pollen-sacs sometimes partly confluent or one sac suppressed; ovary of 4 essentially distinct, uniovulate segments united only by their gynobasic style, or the ovary less commonly merely 4-lobed for a third or more of its length, so that the style arises from between its lobes but is not gynobasic; style shortly bifid at the tip, one lobe often reduced; fr of (1–)4 1-seeded nutlets; embryo with 2 cotyledons; endosperm none or very scanty; aromatic plants with quadrangular stems and opposite, simple lvs, ours all herbs or low shrubs. (Labiatae, nom. altern.) 200/3200, cosmop.
Common Names:
The mint family
The mint family