Calamintha

Large-flowered mountain mint ( Calamintha grandiflora )

The mountain mints ( Calamintha ) are a genus of the mint family ( Lamiaceae). The genus occurs in Africa, Asia and West Europe.

Description

Mountain mint species are annual to perennial herbaceous plant with creeping rhizomes. The stem has a rectangular cross-section. Your against constantly arranged leaves are stalked and easy. The leaf margin is serrated.

The inflorescences are cymes with lanceolate to awl-shaped and bracts and two to twelve short -stalked flowers. The double lip cup is tube - to bell-shaped, three ten annoying and hairy weak inside. The approach of the calyx is either not or only weakly saccular during fruiting time. At the back curved upper lip of the calyx bears three teeth on the lower lip two, the latter is longer than that of the upper lip and lanceolate. The white, pink or purple crown is almost as long as the calyx and also two-lipped, the tube is slightly broadened. The upper lip is notched, the lower lip trilobal and bent back, the middle tab is longer than the side tabs. There are four stamens present. The ovary is glabrous. The pen is less than the crown.

The Klaus fruits consist of four egg-shaped and rounded part fruit.

Species

Depending on the species delimitation many species to the genus different. The Flora of China lists six to seven species for their processing area. In Germany three species occur in Austria four, four in Switzerland. However, all species are now also provided to the genus Clinopodium L. by some authors.

  • Large-flowered mountain mint ( Calamintha grandiflora (L. ) Moench ) (O, CH )
  • Small-flowered mountain mint or Real mountain mint ( Calamintha nepeta (L.) Savi ) (D, E, CH )
  • Forest - mountain mint ( Calamintha menthifolia host) (D, E, CH )
  • Einseles mountain mint ( Calamintha einseleana FW Schultz ) (D, E )
  • Calamintha ascending Jord. (CH)

Other types are:

  • Calamintha cretica (L.) Lam. ( Syn: Clinopodium creticum (L.) Kuntze ): The home is Crete.
  • Calamintha debilis ( Bunge) Benth. ( Syn: Clinopodium debile ( Bunge) Kuntze ): The range extends from Afghanistan to Siberia.
  • Calamintha megalantha ( Diels ) Hand. - Mazz. ( Syn: Clinopodium megalanthum ( Diels ) CYWu & SJHsuan ex HWLi ): The home is China.

Use

The Calamintha types are as aromatic as their relatives of the genus Mentha and are therefore sometimes also for brewing tea. In addition, some species are used as ornamentals, particularly Calamintha grandiflora.

Swell

  • Xi -wen Li & Ian C. Hedge: Calamintha. In Wu Zheng -yi, Peter H. Raven (eds.): Flora of China. Volume 17: Verbenaceae through Solanaceae, Science Press / Missouri Botanical Garden Press, Beijing / St. Louis in 1994, ISBN 0-915279-24- X, pp. 231, text on the same line efloras.org
  • Cheers Gordon (ed.): Botanica. The ABC's of plants. 10,000 species in text and image. Könemann, Cologne 2003, ISBN 3-8331-1600-5.
  • Leo Jelitto, Wilhelm Schacht ( Lim. ), Hans Simon (ed. ): The Field - Jewelry perennials, 5th edition, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-8001-3265-6, p 171
  • Henning Haeupler, Thomas Muer: Image Atlas of ferns and flowering plants in Germany. 2nd edition. Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-8001-4990-2.
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