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Scientific name:

Mentha requienii

Vernacular name:

Mint, Corsican


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Corsican Mint

Scientific name: Mentha requienii Benth.

Diagnostic features
Plant with pleasant pungent scent, glabrous to sparsely pubescent.
Stems filiform, procumbent, to 12cm.
Leaves up to 5mm, orbicular to broadly elliptic, entire, petiolate.
Whorls of 2-6 flowers, in leaf-axils.
Calyx 1-2mm, bell-shaped.
Corolla lilac.

Chromosome number: 2n=18.

Habitat
Introduced-naturalized; escape from gardens naturalized on damp paths and rocky places.

Distribution
Very scattered in South Britain and 3 parts of Ireland; Corsica and Sardinia.

This species is keyed out on Page 3107: Mentha in the Text Key.

Mentha requienii (Mint, Corsican)
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