Melissa
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Vernacular names of plants within the Genus Melissa

balm
lemon mint

Hierarchical position of the Genus Melissa

   Regnum  Plantae
common name: The plant kingdom
  
   Divisio  Magnoliophyta Cronquist
syn. Angiospermophyta / Anthophyta
pub. Takht. & Zimmerm. ex Reveal, Phytologia 79: 70. 29 Apr 1996.
common name: angiosperms, flowering plants
  
   Subdivisio  Magnoliophytina Frohne & U. Jensen ex Reveal
pub. Phytologia 79: 70. 29 Apr 1996.
common name: Angiosperms
  
   Classis  Rosopsida Batsch
pub. Dispos. Gen. Pl. Jenens.: 28. 1788.
  
   Subclassis  Lamiidae Takht. ex Reveal
pub. Phytologia 74: 178. 25 Mar 1993.
  
   SuperOrdo  Lamianae Takht.
pub. Sist. Filog. Cvetk. Rast.: 405. Jan-Mar 1967.
  
   Ordo  Lamiales Bromhead
pub. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 2, 2: 210. Apr 1838.
  
   Subordo  Lamiineae Bessey in C.K. Adams
pub. Johnson's Universal Cyclop. 8: 464. 15 Nov 1895.
  
   Familia  Lamiaceae Lindl.
pub. Intr. Nat. Syst. Bot., ed. 2: 275. Jul 1836.
common name: Labiatae
  
   Subfamilia  Melissoideae Burmeist.
pub. Handb. Naturgesch.: 274. 1837.
  
   Tribus  Melisseae Benth.
pub. Labiat. Gen. Spec.: 365. Mai 1834.
  
   Subtribus  Melissinae Dumort.
pub. Fl. Belg.: 47. 1827.
  
   Genus  Melissa L.
pub. (1753)
common name: balm
  

Named members of the Genus Melissa

1
   Species  officinalis L.
common name: lemon mint, lemon balm, bee balm, sweet balm
  
2
   Species  pulegioides (L.) L.
syn. Hedeoma pulegioides

Individual specimen entries are published in the sample database supplied with The Compleat Botanica for species or varieties of this supra-generic taxon.

Additional information is available in the commercial version of The Compleat Botanica software for species with this symbol.

 

For a description of the methodology followed in establishing this hierarchy see the note Nomenclature used in The Compleat Botanica.

 

Last reviewed November 01, 2004   

 

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