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Mentha suaveolens Ehrh.

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Exotic
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New Zealand
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Ehrh.
Ehrh.
1792
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Mentha suaveolens Ehrh.
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Mentha suaveolens

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suaveolens

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Mentha suaveolens Ehrh.

Rhizomatous, densely hairy perennial with erect, branched stems to c. 70 cm tall. Lvs sessile or nearly so, smaller below infl., 1.5-4.5 × 0.8-3 cm, broad, usually elliptic, sometimes ovate or oblong-ovate, rugose, crenulate or crenulate-serrate, often grey-tomentose at least below, with oil globules below; base cordate or subcordate and often ± amplexicaul. Infl. of several narrow elongated terminal spikes, densely hairy, freely branching at base; central spike to c. 8 cm long, the others shorter; fls pedicellate. Calyx 1.5-2.5 mm long, broad-campanulate, ± green, glandular, hairy; teeth equal, acuminate, = tube at anthesis. Corolla 3-3.5 mm long, pale pink or whitish; lobes ± hairy; tube exserted. Stamens exserted or included. Nutlets c. 0.8 mm long, ovoid, bluntly angled, reticulate.

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Mentha rotundifolia sensu many New Zealand authors
Mentha suaveolens Ehrh.
Mentha suaveolens Ehrh.
Mentha suaveolens Ehrh.

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Mentha suaveolens Ehrh.
New Zealand
Mentha suaveolens Ehrh.
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Mentha suaveolens Ehrh.
New Zealand
South Auckland Land District
Mentha suaveolens Ehrh.
New Zealand
Wellington Land District
Mentha suaveolens Ehrh.
New Zealand
Westland Land District

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ab9f8c00-0376-41ab-aea2-306be0cb1e84
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1 January 2000
31 July 2007
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