Citation: Miller, Gard. Dict. Abr. edn 4 (1754).

Derivation: Greek kalos, beautiful; mintha, mint.

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: None

Description:
Perennial herbs with quadrangular branches, with simple hairs and sessile glands; leaves petiolate, opposite, crenate-serrate to entire.

Inflorescence a thyrse with cymose part-inflorescences stalked, with elongated internodes between the basal nodes with flowers, with subtending bracts leaf-like at the base becoming rapidly shorter upwards; sepals unequally connate, vaguely 2-lipped, with a posterior lip with 3 subequal lobes, with the anterior lip deeply 2-lobed; corolla 2-lipped, with a posterior lip erect, more or less hooded and 2-lobed, with an anterior lip with 3 lobes of about equal length but the central one distinctly broader; stamens 4 fertile, inserted in the throat of the corolla tube; anthers with 2 cells fertile and slightly diverging, included under the hood of the posterior lip of the corolla; ovary deeply 4-lobed, with 1 basal ovule in each locule, with a gynobasic style and terminal 2-fid stigma.

Fruit usually with 4 mericarps each obovoid, scarcely keeled on the inside, with an attachment scar ovate to triangular, basal.

Distribution:  About 8 species from western Europe to central Asia; 1 species naturalised in Australia.

Biology: No text

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