Ballota

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For the parish in northern Spain, see Ballota (Cudillero).

Horehound
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Ballota nigra
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Lamiales
Family: Lamiaceae
Subfamily: Lamioideae
Genus: Ballota
L.
Type species
Ballota nigra
Synonyms[1]
  • Pseudodictamnus Fabr.
  • Beringeria Neck.
  • Zapateria Pau

Ballota (horehound) is a genus of flowering evergreen perennial plants and subshrubs in the family Lamiaceae. native to temperate regions. The Mediterranean region has the highest diversity in the genus, with more isolated locations in South Africa, Central Asia, northern Europe, and the islands of the eastern North Atlantic.[1][2] It is found in rocky and waste ground.[3]

Ballota is paraphyletic and will eventually be re-circumscribed. It is closely related to Moluccella and Marrubium.[4] Some of its species had previously been placed in Marrubium.

Ballota species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera including Coleophora case-bearers: C. ballotella, C. lineolea (which has been recorded on B. nigra) and C. ochripennella.

Species[1]
  1. Ballota acetabulosa (L.) Benth. - Greece, Turkey
  2. Hedge - Saudi Arabia
  3. (L.) Benth. -South Africa, Namibia
  4. Pamp. - Libya
  5. Post - Syria, Lebanon
  6. Boiss. - Iran, Iraq
  7. Pomel. - Algeria, Tunisia
  8. Semaan & R.M.Haber - Lebanon
  9. P.H.Davis - Antalya region of Turkey
  10. Boiss. - Syria, Egypt
  11. (de Noé) Jury, Rejdali & A.J.K.Griffiths - Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Mauritania
  12. Hub.-Mor. & Patzak - Turkey
  13. Pojark. - Caucasus
  14. Ballota hirsuta Benth. - Spain, Portugal, Balearic Islands, Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Chad; naturalized on Corsica
  15. (L.) Benth. - Italy, Sicily, Albania, Yugoslavia
  16. Hub.-Mor. & Patzak - Antalya region of Turkey
  17. Täckh. - Sinai
  18. Boiss. & Heldr. - Turkey
  19. P.H.Davis & Doroszenko - Antalya + Içel regions of Turkey
  20. Velen - Saudi Arabia
  21. Vandas - Albania, Yugoslavia, Greece
  22. Boiss. & Balansa - Nigde region of Turkey
  23. Ballota nigra L. - most of Europe; North Africa, Middle East as far east as Iran; naturalized in New Zealand, Argentina, North America
  24. Bornm. - Israel
  25. Rech.f. - Iran
  26. Ballota pseudodictamnus (L.) Benth. - Greece, Turkey, Egypt, Libya; naturalized in Italy
  27. K.Koch - Erzurum region of Turkey
  28. Sieber ex C.Presl - Middle East from Turkey to Saudi Arabia
  29. Gemici & Leblebici - Turkey
  30. Ballota undulata (Sieber ex Fresen.) Benth. - Middle East from Syria to Saudi Arabia
  31. Maire, Weiller & Wilczek - Morocco

References[]

  1. ^ a b c Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  2. ^ Altervista Flora Italiana, Genere Ballota
  3. ^ RHS A-Z encyclopedia of garden plants. United Kingdom: Dorling Kindersley. 2008. p. 1136. ISBN 1405332964.
  4. ^ Anne-Cathrine Scheen, Mika Bendiksby, Olof Ryding, Cecilie Mathiesen, Victor A. Albert, and Charlotte Lindqvist. 2010. "Molecular Phylogenetics, Character Evolution, and Suprageneric Classification of Lamioideae (Lamiaceae)". Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 97(2):191-217. doi:10.3417/2007174
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