Clinopodium is a genus of flowering plants in the family Lamiaceae, in the subtribe Menthinae. Clinopodium belongs to a large and complex group of genera including many New World mints such as Cunila, Monarda, and Pycnanthemum, and this group is in turn a sister clade to Mentha. The genus name Clinopodium is derived from the Latin clinopodion, from the Ancient Greek κλινοπόδιον (klinopódion), from κλίνη (klínē) "bed" and πόδιον (pódion) "little foot". These were names for Clinopodium vulgare.[3] They allude to the form of the calyx.[4]
| Clinopodium | |
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| Clinopodium vulgare | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Lamiales |
| Family: | Lamiaceae |
| Subfamily: | Nepetoideae |
| Tribe: | Mentheae |
| Genus: | Clinopodium L.[1] |
| Type species | |
| Clinopodium vulgare | |
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Clinopodium species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including Coleophora albitarsella.
Various Clinopodium species are used as medicinal herbs. For example, C. macrostemum is used in Mexico as a tea under the name poleo or yerba de borracho to cure hangovers, stomach aches, and liver disease.
Taxonomy
editClinopodium has been defined very differently by different authors. Some have restricted it to as few as 13 species, all closely related to the type species, Clinopodium vulgare. In the latest revision of Lamiaceae, Clinopodium encompassed about 100 species, including those otherwise placed in the genera Acinos, Calamintha, Micromeria, Satureja, and Xenopoma.[5] This circumscription, called Clinopodium sensu lato, was shown to be polyphyletic in 2004,[6] with additional information on the issue published in 2010. As currently defined, Clinopodium includes both a core clade of this genus that includes the type species and a sister clade that is a broad assemblage of New World species designated Clinopodium alongside species included in 22 other genera. This "Clinopodium complex" will need a systematic taxonomic and nomenclatural review before valid names can be designated.[7]
Selected species
edit- Clinopodium acinos (L.) Kuntze
- Clinopodium alpinum (L.) Kuntze
- Clinopodium ashei (Weath.) Small – Ashe's calamint
- Clinopodium bolivianum (Benth.) Kuntze
- Clinopodium brownei (Sw.) Kuntze – Browne's savory
- Clinopodium chandleri (Brandegee) P.D.Cantino & Wagstaff – San Miguel calamint
- Clinopodium chinense (Benth.) Kuntze
- Clinopodium coccineum (Nutt. ex Hook.) Kuntze – scarlet calamint
- Clinopodium dentatum (Chapm.) Kuntze – Florida calamint
- Clinopodium douglasii (Benth.) Kuntze – yerba buena, Oregon tea
- Clinopodium fasciculatum (Benth.) Harley
- Clinopodium glabellum (Michx.) Kuntze – Ozark calamint
- Clinopodium gracile (Benth.) Kuntze – slender wild basil
- Clinopodium grandiflorum (L.) Kuntze
- Clinopodium hakkaricum Dirmenci & Firat – Hakkari clinopodium
- Clinopodium macrostemum (Moc. & Sessé et Benth) Kuntze
- Clinopodium menthifolium (Host) Stace – woodland calamint
- Clinopodium mimuloides (Benth.) Kuntze – monkeyflower savory
- Clinopodium mutabile (Epling) Harley
- Clinopodium nepeta (L.) Kuntze – lesser calamint
- Clinopodium talladeganum B.R. Keener & Floden – Talladega calamint
- Clinopodium troodi (Post) Govaerts
- Clinopodium umbrosum (M.Bieb.) K.Koch
- Clinopodium vimineum (L.) Kuntze – serpentine savory
- Clinopodium vulgare (L.) – wild basil[8][9]
References
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- ^ "Genus Clinopodium L." Germplasm Resources Information Network. United States Department of Agriculture.
- ^ "Clinopodium L." Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 2023. Retrieved 19 March 2023.
- ^ Umberto Quattrocchi. 2000. CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names volume I, page 91. CRC Press: Boca Raton; New York; Washington,DC;, USA. London, UK. ISBN 978-0-8493-2673-8 (set).
- ^ Paul Victor Fournier. 1946. Les Quatre Flores de France, page 838. Paris: Lechevalier.
- ^ Harley, RM; Atkins, S; Budantsev, AL; Cantino, PD; etc (2004). "Labiatae" (PDF). In Joachim W. Kadereit (ed.). Flowering Plants: Dicotyledons: Lamiales (except Acanthaceae including Avicenniaceae). The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants. Vol. 7. Berlin: Springer. pp. 167–275. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-18617-2_11. ISBN 9783642186172.
- ^ Trusty, Jennifer L.; Olmstead, Richard G.; Bogler, David J.; Santos-Guerra, Arnoldo; Francisco-Ortega, Javier (1 July 2004). "Using Molecular Data to Test a Biogeographic Connection of the Macaronesian Genus Bystropogon (Lamiaceae) to the New World: A Case of Conflicting Phylogenies". Systematic Botany. 29 (3): 702–715. doi:10.1600/0363644041744347.
- ^ Bräuchler, Christian; Meimberg, Harald; Heubl, Günther (2010). "Molecular phylogeny of Menthinae (Lamiaceae, Nepetoideae, Mentheae): Taxonomy, biogeography and conflicts" (PDF). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 55 (2): 501–523. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2010.01.016.
- ^ "Clinopodium". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2012-02-23.
- ^ "GRIN Species Records of Clinopodium". Germplasm Resources Information Network. United States Department of Agriculture. Archived from the original on 2009-01-20. Retrieved 2012-02-22.
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