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Melissa officinalis1 The Euro+Med Plantbase Project

Details for: Melissa officinalis

3 different source(s) use this name:

- Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families (2010).
- Euro+Med preliminary checklist as merged from Flora Europaea, Med-Checklist and Flora of Macaronesia (for families not yet treated in Med-Checklist, the distributional record does not include N Africa and SW Asia)..
- Editor Castroviejo 2005.

Source:	World Checklist of Selected Plant Families (2010), copyright © The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Name:	Melissa officinalis L.
Nomencl. ref.:	Sp. Pl.: 592. 1753
Rank:	Species
Status:	ACCEPTED
Is replaced synonym for:	Thymus melissa E. H. L. Krause
Taxonomy (this taxon is included in):	Regnum - Plantae Divisio - Tracheophyta Subdivisio - Spermatophytina Class - Magnoliopsida Superordo - Asteranae Ordo - Lamiales Familia - Lamiaceae Lindl. Genus - Melissa L.
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Homotypic synonyms:	Faucibarba officinalis (L.) Dulac
	Mutelia officinalis (L.) Gren. ex Mutel
	Thymus melissa E. H. L. Krause
Included taxa:	Melissa officinalis L. subsp. officinalis
	Melissa officinalis subsp. altissima (Sm.) Arcang.
	Melissa officinalis subsp. inodora Bornm.

*Common names:*	abejera (Spanish, Castillian), abellariza (Galician), abelleira (Galician), abeyera (Asturian), abeyera (Spanish, Castillian), abillariza (Galician), abilleira (Galician), albedarumbre (Spanish, Castillian), apiastro (Galician), apiastro (Portuguese), apiastro (Spanish, Castillian), arangí (Catalan), arangí (Majorcan), aranjí (Majorcan), avelleira (Galician), bedaranjí (Spanish, Castillian), beh.era (Asturian), belleira (Galician), belleira (Portuguese), cedrón (Spanish, Castillian), chá-da-França (Portuguese), cidrac (Catalan), cidre (Galician), cidreira (Galician), cidreira (Portuguese), cidrón (Spanish, Castillian), cidronela (Spanish, Castillian), cidronella (Spanish, Castillian), citraria (Spanish, Castillian), citronela (Portuguese), citronela-menor (Portuguese), citronella (Catalan), citronella menor (Portuguese), citronella-menor (Galician), citronella-menor (Portuguese), cobo (Galician), copat (Galician), copeira (Galician), cravo (Galician), erba-cidreira (Galician), erva cidreira (Portuguese), erva-cidreira (Galician), erva-cidreira (Portuguese), garraisca (Euskera), garraisca belarra (Euskera), garraiska (Euskera), garraiska-belarr (Euskera), herba abella (Galician), herba abelleira (Galician), herba abelleira (Portuguese), herba abellera (Catalan), herba abellera (Galician), herba belleira (Galician), herba cidreira (Galician), herba cidrera (Catalan), herba llimonera (Catalan), herba luisa (Asturian), herba velleira (Galician), herva cidreira (Portuguese), hierba abilleira (Galician), hierba buena (Spanish, Castillian), hierba cidra (Spanish, Castillian), hierba limonera (Spanish, Castillian), hierba luna (Spanish, Castillian), hoja de limón (Spanish, Castillian), larania (Euskera), laranias (Euskera), limoe-bedarr (Euskera), limoe-belarr (Euskera), limoncillo (Spanish, Castillian), limonera (Spanish, Castillian), limonera borde (Spanish, Castillian), limonete (Portuguese), luisa (Asturian), meliphyllo (Portuguese), melisa (Aragonese), melisa (Asturian), melisa (Galician), melisa (Spanish, Castillian), melisa oficinal (Spanish, Castillian), melisa verdadeira (Portuguese), melissa (Catalan), melissa (Galician), melissa (Portuguese), melissa (Valencian), meliteira (Galician), meliteira (Portuguese), meliteria (Portuguese), tarongí (Catalan), tarongí (Majorcan), tarongí-ina (Majorcan), tarongil (Valencian), tarongina (Catalan), tarongina (Majorcan), tarongina (Valencian), té (Aragonese), té (High Aragonese), te de calazo (Spanish, Castillian), té de huerto (High Aragonese), tolonjina (Aragonese), tolonjina (High Aragonese), torojil (Spanish, Castillian), torongi (Catalan), torongí (Majorcan), torongil (Spanish, Castillian), torongil cidrado (Spanish, Castillian), torongil de limón (Spanish, Castillian), torongilla (Euskera), torongilla (Spanish, Castillian), torongina (Aragonese), torongina (Catalan), torongina (Spanish, Castillian), toronja (Spanish, Castillian), toronjí (Spanish, Castillian), toronjil (Spanish, Castillian), toronjil falso (Spanish, Castillian), toronjina (Aragonese), toronjina (High Aragonese), toronjina (Spanish, Castillian), toronxil (Galician), tronjina (Aragonese), tronjina (High Aragonese), tronxil (Galician), trungil (Galician), trunjil (Galician), trunxil (Galician), verde-limón (Spanish, Castillian), yerba cidrera (Spanish, Castillian)[Credits]
*Maps:*	distribution
*Occurrence:*	AE(G) Al Bl Bu Co Cr Cy Gr Hs It Ju LS Lu Rf(CS) Sa Si Tcs Tu(A E) [Au Az Be Br Ca Cz Da Ga Ge Hb He Ho Hu Ma Md Po Rf(S) Rm Su Uk(K U)]

Source:	This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license (CC-By-SA-3.0 Unported).
Name:	Melissa officinalis L.
Nomencl. ref.:	Sp. Pl.: 592. 1753
Rank:	Species
Status:	ACCEPTED
Taxonomy (this taxon is included in):	Regnum - Plantae Divisio - Spermatophyta Subdivisio - Angiospermae Class - Dicotyledones Ordo - Lamiales Familia - Lamiaceae Lindl. Genus - Melissa L.
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Source:	This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license (CC-By-SA-3.0 Unported).
Name:	Melissa officinalis L.
Nomencl. ref.:	Sp. Pl.: 592. 1753
Rank:	Species
Status:	ACCEPTED
Taxonomy (this taxon is included in):	Regnum - Plantae Divisio - Tracheophyta Subdivisio - Spermatophytina Class - Magnoliopsida Superordo - Asteranae Ordo - Lamiales Familia - Lamiaceae Lindl. Genus - Melissa L.
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