Noms vernaculaires
(dans les territoires avec usage significatif TRAMIL)
Guadeloupe:
- mant
- mant
Saint-Martin:
- mant
Martinique:
- mant
Dominique:
- peppermint
Cuba:
- toronjil
- toronjil de menta
Panama:
- yerba buena
Vénézuéla:
- yerba buena
Distribution géographique
Originaire d’Europe, actuellement cultivée dans le monde entier.
Description botanique
Herbacéepérenne, aromatique. Tiges dressées ou ascendantes de 30 à 90 cm, ramifiées, glabres. Feuilles lancéolées, aiguës, limbe gaufré. Fleurs en longs épis terminaux, de 2,5 à 7,5 cm, celle du centre étant dépassée par les fleurs latérales; calice glabre, avec dents aiguës, en général ciliées; corolle pourpre, rarement blanche, glabre.
L’existence de variétés à l’intérieur de l’espèce peut nuancer la description botanique typique indiquée ci-dessus.
Voucher(s)
Jiménez,1505,JBSD
Gimenez,275710-38,VEN
Soberats,TR90-09,CIFMT
FLORPAN,s/n,PMA
Ocrisse,3bis,UAB
Boulogne,TH,14,UAG
Boulogne,TB,11,UAG
Pharmacopée
Ed.3References
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