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Clinopodium nepeta (L.) Kuntze Lamiaceae

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Ethnobotany of the Caucasus

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Synonyms

Melissa nepeta L.; Calamintha nepeta (L.) Savi; Thymus nepeta (L.) Sm.; Satureja nepeta (L.) Scheele; Calamintha nepetoides Jord.; Calamintha officinalis var. nepeta (L.) Rchb. & Rchb. f.; Satureja calamintha subsp. nepeta (L.) Briq.; Satureja calamintha var. nepeta (L.) Briq.; Calamintha largiflora Klokov

Local Names

Azerbaijan: Pişiкnаnəsivаri ətirnаz; English: Goose foot.

Botany and Ecology

Perennial, white-villous. Rhizome creeping. Stems 20–60 cm high, obtusely 4-angled, sparingly branched, procumbent or with elongated ascending branches, sparsely hairy. Leaves with short petioles or subsessile, rounded-ovate, distantly and shallowly crenate-serrate or subentire, densely short hairy, canescent above, prominently veined below. Inflorescence a terminal spike consisting of several loose whorls of clusters of flowers growing in the axils of the leaves (verticillasters); verticillasters 12–15(30) flowered, dichotomously branched, emerging on a common peduncle from the leaf...

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References

  • Akhundov QF, Mahammadli BR, Asadov KS. Useful wild-growing plants. Maarif: Baku; 1989. (in Azeri).

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  • Grossheim AA. Plant resources of the Caucasus. Baku: Publishing house of AS of Azerbaijani SSR; 1946. (in Russian).

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Institute of Botany, Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences, Baku, Azerbaijan

    Naiba P. Mehdiyeva & Valida M. Alizade

  2. Instituto de EcologĂ­a-UMSA, Herbario Nacional de Bolivia, Campus Universitario, Cota Cota Calle 27, La Paz, Bolivia

    Narel Y. Paniagua Zambrana

  3. William L. Brown Center, Missouri Botanical Garden, 299, St. Louis, MO, 63166-0299, USA

    Rainer W. Bussmann

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  1. Naiba P. Mehdiyeva
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    Rainer W. Bussmann

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Mehdiyeva, N.P., Alizade, V.M., Zambrana, N.Y.P., Bussmann, R.W. (2017). Clinopodium nepeta (L.) Kuntze Lamiaceae . In: Bussmann, R. (eds) Ethnobotany of the Caucasus. European Ethnobotany. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49412-8_40

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