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Description. Habitat. Carnivore plants. Parasitic plants. Uses. Taxonomy. Dating. References. External links. Lamiales. The order Lamiales (also known as the mint order) are an order in the asterid group of dicotyledonous flowering plants. [4] [5] It includes about 23,810 species, 1,059 genera, and is divided into about 25 families. [4] .
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Lamiales, mint order of flowering plants, including 24 families, 1,059 genera, and about 23,755 species. Easily recognizable characters include usually opposite leaves, frequent presence of glandular hairs, and mostly capsular fruits. Learn more about the order, its characteristics, and major families.
Lamiaceae, the mint family of flowering plants, with 236 genera and more than 7,000 species, the largest family of the order Lamiales. Lamiaceae is distributed nearly worldwide, and many species are cultivated for their fragrant leaves and attractive flowers.
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Main families. The two core families of Lamiales are Lamiaceae, or the mint family, and Verbenaceae, or the verbena family. Together they account for about 270 genera and more than 8,300 species. Both families have opposite leaves, bilaterally symmetric flowers (with only one plane of symmetry down the axis of the irregularly shaped flowers ...
Lamiales is an order of flowering plants with 24 families, 1059 genera, and 23,755 species. Learn about the features, distribution, and examples of the plants under this order, such as mint, olive, and bladderwort.
Lamiaceae. Lamium purpureum, showing the bilaterally symmetrical flower. Tetradenia riparia. The Lamiaceae ( / ˌleɪmiˈeɪsiːˌiː, - iˌaɪ / LAY-mee-AY-see-ee, -eye) [3] or Labiatae are a family of flowering plants commonly known as the mint, deadnettle or sage family.
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The order Lamiales is a taxon in the asterid group of dicotyledonous flowering plants. It includes about 11,000 species divided up into about 10 families. A few well-known members of this order are the lavender, the lilac, the olive, the jasmine, the ash tree, the teak, the snapdragon, and a number of table herbs such as mint, basil, and rosemary.
