Taxon: Phyla dulcis (Trevir.) Moldenke

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Common names:

• Aztec sweetherb   (Source: Pl Names ) – English
  
• honeyherb   (Source: CRC MedHerbs ed2 [as P. scaberrima]) – English
  
• Mexican lippia   (Source: Dict Gard [as Lippia dulcis]) – English
  
• aztekisches Süßkraut   (Source: Zander ed17 [as Lippia dulcis]) – German
  
• hierba dulce   (Source: F Veracruz [as Lippia dulcis]) – Spanish
  
• oruzuz   (Source: F Guat [as Lippia dulcis]) – Spanish
  
• yerba dulce   (Source: Zander ed17 [as Lippia dulcis]) – Spanish
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Medicines: folklore   (fide CRC MedHerbs ed2, as P. scaberrima; Herbs Commerce ed2, as P. scaberrima; Dict Gard, as Lippia dulcis; F Guat, as Lippia dulcis; F Veracruz, as Lippia dulcis; F CubaLeon, as P. scaberrima)
  

Distributional range:

• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Mexico [s.]
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Caribbean: Cuba; Hispaniola; Puerto Rico
  Mesoamerica: Belize; Costa Rica; El Salvador; Guatemala; Honduras; Nicaragua; Panama
  Northern South America: Venezuela
  Western South America: Colombia

References:

• Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs. [= P. scaberrima].
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2002. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 17. Auflage. [= Lippia dulcis].
• Gómez-Pompa, A. & V. Sosa, eds. 1978–. Flora de Veracruz. [= Lippia dulcis].
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. [= Lippia dulcis].
• Kennedy, K. 1992. A systematic study of the genus Phyla Lour. (Verbenaceae: Verbenoideae, Lantanae). Unpublished dissertation (U. Texas) 160–170.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Standley, P. C. & J. A. Steyermark. 1946–1976. Flora of Guatemala. [= Lippia dulcis].

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Synonyms:

• (≡) Lippia dulcis Trevir. (basionym)
  
• (=) Phyla scaberrima auct. pl.
  

Check other web resources for Phyla dulcis (Trevir.) Moldenke:

• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• 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.

Check other web resources for images:

• PlantSystematics.org
• 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.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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