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Perennial herbs (ours), with a characteristic minty smell. Leaves opposite. Inflorescences terminal and axillary, spike-like. Flowers small; bracts leaf-like, smaller than leaves; bracteoles linear. Calyx 10-nerved, ± equally 5-toothed. Corolla obscurely 2-lipped, 4-lobed. Stamens 4, ± equal, spreading, exserted. Nutlets ovoid. Worldwide: 25 species in the temperate Old World Zimbabwe: 2 cultivated taxa. |
No image of a cultivated species but there is an image of a native or naturalised species |
| Species | Content |
| spicata L. | |
| × piperita L. |
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