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Cunila

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Cunila is a genus of plants in the Lamiaceae, first described in 1759. It is native to North and South America.

Species

GENUS

  1. KingdomPlantae
  2. PhylumTracheophyta
  3. ClassMagnoliopsida
  4. OrderLamiales
  5. FamilyLamiaceae

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Museum specimens

Specimen records
232
With media
144
Family
Lamiaceae
Collections
INECOL, CIIDIR-IPN, CAS, SBBG, GMUF, MADUG-UG
Recorded in
Mexico, United States, Brasil

Wikidata facts

Instance of
taxon
Parent taxon
Menthinae
Image
Cunila origanoides - Wild Dittany.jpg
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taxon name
Cunila
taxon rank
genus
Commons category
Cunila
topic's main category
Category:Cunila
taxon common name
cunila
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Encyclopedic overview

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Cunila is a genus of plants in the Lamiaceae, first described in 1759. It is native to North and South America. Species Cunila angustifolia Benth. - southern Brazil, Misiones Province of Argentina Cunila crenata García-Peña & Tenorio - State of Durango in Mexico Cunila fasciculata Benth. - southern Brazil Cunila galioides Benth. - Brazil Cunila incana Benth. - southern Brazil, Argentina Cunila incisa Benth. - southern Brazil Cunila leucantha Kunth ex Schltdl. & Cham. - Mexico (Veracruz, Guerrero, Oaxaca, Chiapas), Central America (Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Panama) Cunila lythrifolia Benth. - central + southern Mexico Cunila menthiformis Epling - southern Brazil Cunila menthoides Benth. - Uruguay Cunila microcephala Benth. - southern Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay Cunila origanoides (L.) Britton - central + eastern United States from Texas and Kansas east to New York and Georgia Cunila platyphylla Epling - southern Brazil Cunila polyantha Benth. - Mexico (from Zacatecas and Jalisco south to Chiapas), Central America (Guatemala, Honduras, Panama) Cunila pycnantha B.L.Rob. & Greenm. - Mexico (from Sinaloa and Durango south to Chiapas) Cunila ramamoorthiana M.R.Garcia-Pena - Mexico (Guerrero) Cunila spicata Benth. - southern Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay Cunila tenuifolia Epling - southern Brazil

==References==

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Cunila” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.