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[ Meliosma ] [ Melissa ] [ Melissitus ]

Vernacular names of plants within the Genus Melissa

Hierarchical position of the Genus Melissa

Regnum  Plantae common name: The plant kingdom       Divisio  Magnoliophyta Cronquist syn. Angiospermophyta / Anthophyta pub. Takht. & Zimmerm. ex Reveal, Phytologia 79: 70. 29 Apr 1996. common name: angiosperms, flowering plants       Subdivisio  Magnoliophytina Frohne & U. Jensen ex Reveal pub. Phytologia 79: 70. 29 Apr 1996. common name: Angiosperms       Classis  Rosopsida Batsch pub. Dispos. Gen. Pl. Jenens.: 28. 1788.       Subclassis  Lamiidae Takht. ex Reveal pub. Phytologia 74: 178. 25 Mar 1993.       SuperOrdo  Lamianae Takht. pub. Sist. Filog. Cvetk. Rast.: 405. Jan-Mar 1967.       Ordo  Lamiales Bromhead pub. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 2, 2: 210. Apr 1838.       Subordo  Lamiineae Bessey in C.K. Adams pub. Johnson's Universal Cyclop. 8: 464. 15 Nov 1895.       Familia  Lamiaceae Lindl. pub. Intr. Nat. Syst. Bot., ed. 2: 275. Jul 1836. common name: Labiatae       Subfamilia  Melissoideae Burmeist. pub. Handb. Naturgesch.: 274. 1837.       Tribus  Melisseae Benth. pub. Labiat. Gen. Spec.: 365. Mai 1834.       Subtribus  Melissinae Dumort. pub. Fl. Belg.: 47. 1827.       Genus  Melissa L. pub. (1753) common name: balm

Named members of the Genus Melissa

1	Species  officinalis L. common name: lemon mint, lemon balm, bee balm, sweet balm
2	Species  pulegioides (L.) L. syn. Hedeoma pulegioides

Individual specimen entries are published in the sample database supplied with The Compleat Botanica for species or varieties of this supra-generic taxon.

Additional information is available in the commercial version of The Compleat Botanica software for species with this symbol.

For a description of the methodology followed in establishing this hierarchy see the note Nomenclature used in The Compleat Botanica.