Ballota

Perilla ( Ballota nigra)

The plant genus of the Black nettles ( Ballota ) belongs to the mint family ( Lamiaceae).

Description

Ballota species are perennial, herbaceous plants or small shrubs.

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The partial fruits ( Klausen) are rounded elongated and at the top.

Dissemination

The genus comprises about 30 species Ballota with a distribution area in the Mediterranean region and in the oriental floral region. Several species occur in the Sahara and the Arabian Peninsula. A species is native to South Africa. In Europe, six species occur. The largest area of ​​distribution has the Perilla ( Ballota nigra), which occurs as a single species with two subspecies in Central Europe.

System

The genus name is derived from Ballota Ballote, the ancient Greek name for the type Ballota nigra.

There are about 30 species Ballota

• Ballota acetabulosa (L.) Benth. It occurs in southern and eastern Greece and western Turkey.
• Ballota adenophora Hedge: It occurs in Saudi Arabia.
• Ballota africana (L.) Benth. It comes in southern Africa before ( Cape provinces, the Orange Free State, Namibia ).
• Ballota andreuzziana Pamp. It occurs in Libya.
• Ballota antilibanotica Post: It occurs in Lebanon and southern Syria.
• Ballota aucheri Boiss. It occurs in northern Iraq and Iran.
• Ballota bullata Pomel: It occurs in the Maghreb.
• Ballota byblensis Semaan & RMHaber: It occurs in Lebanon.
• Ballota cristata PHDavis: It occurs in Anatolia ( Near Antalya).
• Ballota damascena Boiss. It occurs in Syria and Egypt.
• Ballota deserti ( Noë ) jury Rejdali & AJKGriffiths: It comes from Mauritania to Libya before.
• Ballota glandulosissima Hub. -Mor. & Patzak: It occurs in south-western Anatolia.
• Ballota grisea Pojark. It occurs in the eastern Caucasus.
• Ballota hirsuta Benth. It comes in five subspecies of the western Mediterranean prior to the central Sahara.
• Ballota hispanica (L.) Benth. It comes in the central Mediterranean region, lacking in Spain before.
• Ballota inaequidens Hub. -Mor. & Patzak: It occurs in Anatolia ( Near Antalya).
• Ballota kaiseri Täckh. It occurs only on the Sinai Peninsula.
• Ballota stellar dana Boiss. & Heldr. It occurs in central Anatolia.
• Ballota latibracteolata PHDavis & Doroszenko: It comes in southern Anatolia before ( provinces of Antalya and Içel ).
• Ballota luteola Velen. It occurs in Saudi Arabia.
• Ballota macedonica Vandas: It occurs on the Balkan Peninsula.
• Ballota macrodonta Boiss. & Balansa: It comes in southern Anatolia before ( Nigde province ).
• Perilla ( Ballota nigra L.): It occurs in Europe, North Africa and Western Asia, also introduced in Argentina and New Zealand. With eight subspecies, of which in Central Europe: Kurzzähnige Perilla ( Ballota nigra subsp. Meridionalis ( Beg ) Beg. )
• Langzähnige Perilla ( Ballota nigra L. subsp. Nigra)

No longer the genus Ballota include:

• Acanthoprasium frutescens (L.) Spenn. (Syn. Ballota frutescens (L.) Woods ) and in southern France

Italy.

• Acanthoprasium integrifolium ( Benth. ) Ryding (syn. Ballota integrifolia Benth. ): Occurs only in Cyprus.