Taxon: Melissa officinalis L.
Genus: Melissa
Family: Lamiaceae (alt. Labiatae) subfamily: Nepetoideae tribe: Mentheae.
Nomen number: 24036
Place of publication: Sp. pl. 2:592. 1753
Typification: View record from Linnaean Plant Name Typification Project
of the Natural History Museum of London.
Name verified on: 11-May-1992 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 31-Dec-2001
No species priority site assigned. Accessions:
1 in National Plant Germplasm System.
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Native:
- AFRICA
Macaronesia: Portugal - Madeira Islands; Spain - Canary Islands Northern Africa: Morocco; Tunisia
- ASIA-TEMPERATE
Western Asia: Cyprus; Iran; Iraq; Israel; Lebanon; Syria; Turkey Caucasus: Armenia; Azerbaijan; Georgia; Russian Federation - Ciscaucasia Middle Asia: Kyrgyzstan; Tajikistan; Turkmenistan
- ASIA-TROPICAL
Indian Subcontinent: Pakistan [n.]
- EUROPE
East Europe: Belarus; Russian Federation - European part [s.]; Ukraine [incl. Krym] Southeastern Europe: Albania; Bulgaria; Former Yugoslavia; Greece [incl. Crete]; Italy [incl. Sardinia, Sicily]; Romania Southwestern Europe: France - Corsica; Portugal; Spain [incl. Baleares]
Cultivated: - widely cultivated in temperate regions
- Davis, P. H., ed.
1965–1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands. (F Turk)
- Duke, J. A. et al.
2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs. (CRC MedHerbs ed2)
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO).
2010. Ecocrop - on-line resource. (Ecocrop)
- Greuter, W. et al., eds.
1984–. Med-Checklist. (L Medit)
- Huxley, A., ed.
1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. (Dict Gard)
- Izquierdo Z., I. et al., eds.
2004. Lista de especies silvestres de Canarias: hongos, plantas y animales terrestres. (L Canaries)
- Komarov, V. L. et al., eds.
1934–1964. Flora SSSR. (F USSR)
- Kunkel, G.
1984. Plants for human consumption. (L Edible Pl)
- Lawrence, B. M.
1992. Chemical components of Labiatae oils and their exploitation.
In: Harley, R. M. & T. Reynolds, eds., Advances in labiate science. (Adv Lab Sci)
400.
- Lazarides, M. & B. Hince.
1993. CSIRO Handbook of Economic Plants of Australia. (Econ Pl Aust)
- Leung, A. Y. & S. Foster.
1996. Encyclopedia of common natural ingredients used in food, drugs, and cosmetics, ed. 2. (Ency CNatIn)
- Magness, J. R. et al.
1971. Food and feed crops of the United States. IR Bull. 1. (Crops US)
- Markle, G. M. et al., eds.
1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2. (Food Feed Crops US)
- McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker.
2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. (Herbs Commerce ed2)
- Mouterde, P.
1966–. Nouvelle flore du Liban et de la Syrie. (F Liban)
- Nasir, E. & S. I. Ali, eds.
1970–. Flora of [West] Pakistan. (F Pak)
- Porcher, M. H. et al.
Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
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1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. (Dict Rehm)
- Tutin, T. G. et al., eds.
1964–1980. Flora europaea. (F Eur)
- Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds.
1994–. Flora of China (English edition). (F ChinaEng)
- Zohary, M. & N. Feinbrun-Dothan.
1966–. Flora palaestina. (F Palest)
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Check other databases for Melissa officinalis L.:
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Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
- Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
- PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of
the United States and its Territories
- Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
- ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
- AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
- Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed
citations, GenBank sequences, etc.
Note: Defaults to a search by genus
or species epithet if species binomial not found.
Images:
- Flower: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
- Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
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- Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
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Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be
inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require
specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with
properly documented herbarium material.
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Cite as: USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program.
Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database]. National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville,
Maryland.
URL: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?24036 (09 February 2010)
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