Family: Lamiaceae
Family: Lamiaceae
Popular name: The Mint Family
Taxonomic Position According to Cronquist
| Kingdom | Plantae |
| Division | Magnoliophyta |
| Class | Magnoliopsida |
| Subclass | |
| Order | Lamiales |
| Family | Lamiaceae |
Botanical Description of the Family
Habit: Mostly herb, however under shrub and rarely trees are found
Root: Tap root system
Stem: Stem generally quadrangular in transverse section, usually covered with trichome and glands
Leaf: Simple, opposite, rarely whorl in phyllotaxy, exstipulate
Inflorescence: Verticillaster, racemose, capitate or panicle
Flower: Mostly zygomorphic, hermaphrodite, bracteates
Calyx: persistent, more or less regular or unequal 4-5 toothed
Corolla: Corolla tube sometimes with a ring of hairs
Androecium: Stamens usually four and didynamous
Gynoecium: Ovary superior, carpel 2, syncarpous
Fruit: Schizocarp