Phyla

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"Frogfruit" redirects here. In colloquial use this often refers to Phyla nodiflora specifically.
Fogfruits or frogfruits
Turkey Tangle (P. nodiflora) with inflorescence
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Asterids
Order: Lamiales
Family: Verbenaceae
Genus: Phyla
Lour.
Type species
Phyla chinensis
Lour.[1]
Species

See text

Phyla (play /ˈflə/)[2] is a genus of eustarid plants in the verbena family, Verbenaceae. Species in this genus are known generally as fogfruit or frogfruit. Species once classified under genus Lippia may be known by the common name lippia. Some species, e.g. Aztec Sweet Herb (P. dulcis), are used in cooking.

Selected species

  • Phyla canescens (Kunth) Greene – Hairy Frogfruit/Fogfruit
  • Phyla chinensis Lour.
  • Phyla cuneifolia (Torr.) Greene – Wedgeleaf Frogfruit/Fogfruit, Wedgeleaf
  • Phyla dulcis (Trevir.) Moldenke, – Bushy Lippia, Aztec Sweet Herb, Honeyherb, Hierba dulce (Spanish), Tzopelic-xihuitl (Nahuatl)
  • Phyla fruticosa (Mill.) Kennedy – Diamondleaf Frogfruit/Fogfruit
  • Pyhla incisa Frog-Fruit
  • Phyla lanceolata (Michx.) Greene – Lanceleaf Frogfruit/Fogfruit
  • Phyla nodiflora (L.) Greene – Turkey Tangle, Sawtooth Frogfruit/Fogfruit
  • Phyla stoechadifolia (L.) Small[3][4]

Footnotes

  1. ^ "Phyla Lour.". TROPICOS. Missouri Botanical Garden. http://www.tropicos.org/NameDetails.aspx?nameid=40007402. Retrieved 2009-12-02. 
  2. ^ Brenzel (1995): pp.606-607
  3. ^ "Subordinate Taxa of Phyla Lour.". TROPICOS. Missouri Botanical Garden. http://www.tropicos.org/NameSubordinateTaxa.aspx?nameid=40007402. Retrieved 2009-12-02. 
  4. ^ "Species Records of Phyla". Germplasm Resources Information Network. United States Department of Agriculture. http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/splist.pl?9295. Retrieved 2009-12-02. 

References

  • Kathleen N. Brenzel, ed. (1995). Sunset Western Garden Book (6 ed.). Sunset Publishing Corporation. ISBN 978-0-376-03851-7. 

External links

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