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Moluccella
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Moluccella is a genus of annual and short-lived perennial plants native to Central + southwestern Asia and the Mediterranean. They are tall, upright, branched plants to or more with toothed leaves and small white fragrant flowers.
Species
False Dittany
GENUS
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassMagnoliopsida
- OrderLamiales
- FamilyLamiaceae
via GBIF · Kew POWO
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 19
- With media
- 19
- Family
- Lamiaceae
- Collections
- NHMUK, MO, BRIT, VT, MNHN, ILL
- Recorded in
- Netherlands, Turkey, Palestine, Mexico, United States
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Encyclopedic overview
2 sectionsContents
- Cultivation
- References
Moluccella is a genus of annual and short-lived perennial plants native to Central + southwestern Asia and the Mediterranean. They are tall, upright, branched plants to or more with toothed leaves and small white fragrant flowers. Species Moluccella aucheri (Boiss.) Scheen - Iran, Pakistan Moluccella bucharica (B.Fedtsch.) Ryding - Tajikistan Moluccella fedtschenkoana (Kudr.) Ryding - Tajikistan Moluccella laevis L. - Bells of Ireland - Turkmenistan, Iran, Iraq, Caucasus, Cyprus, Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Turkey; naturalized in scattered locations in Europe, Africa, and North America Moluccella olgae (Regel) Ryding - Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan Moluccella otostegioides Prain - Pakistan Moluccella sogdiana (Kudr.) Ryding - Tajikistan Moluccella spinosa L. - Mediterranean from Spain + Algeria to Turkey + Palestine
==Cultivation==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Moluccella” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.