Clinopodium piperitum

Clinopodium piperitum (D.Don) Murata (syn: Calamintha longicaulis (Wall. ex Benth.) Benth.; Clinopodium longicaule Wall. ex Benth.; Melissa longicaulis (Wall. ex Benth.) Wall. ex Benth.; Satureja piperita (D.Don) Briq.; Thymus origanifolius D.Don; Thymus piperitus D.Don);

Nepal as per efi thread;

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SK1853 21 April 2019 : 10 posts by 4 authors. Attachments (9)- around 550 kb each.

Location:  Nagarjun Forest reserve, Kathmandu
Date: 20 April 2019
Elevation: 1829 m.
Habit : Wild

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Yes, appears close to your other unidentified posts, as mentioned.

Any idea about the genus?

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Calyx structure remind me of Clinopodium sp.

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What about Clinopodium nepeta or its subspp. ?

Compare different Clinopodium species at:

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Thanks for the mail. Please find the attached description. In Indian context I’ve excluded as it is endemic to Nepal. I’ve not seen the live plant and made description some 25 years back based on herbarium specimens. From photo I could not identify also. Please compare the description.

Attachments (1) – Calamintha_piperitum.doc

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Clinopodium piperitum (D.Don) Murata !

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New genus Himalamintha published for Clinopodium piperitum et al.:
It is to inform you that the description of the new genus Himalamintha to accomodate the Clinopodium nepalense group (amongst others containing Clinopodium piperitum, now Himalamintha piperita (the Pepper-Himalayamint) has just been pulished and the corresponding names are availbable from now on😊https://doi.org/10.2478/stapfia-2026-0002The corresponding paper cites all records appearing in eFloraofIndia and the webpage as source of information.

also your extraordinarily productive group member Saroj Kasaju from Kathmandu was extremely helpful not only in posting the first records of Clinopodium piperitum available on the web, but also allowed me to use his superb images to illustrate the species in our open access publication.

For me personally, it is a great relief finally seing this published after all these years and I am excited to deepen the studies on the group again and looking forward for future collaborations on these and other groups of Lamiaceae – to be continued.

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Abstract:
Himalamintha is described as a new genus in subtribe Menthinae characterized in first place by a calyx that is tubular and only weakly bilabiate, not sigmoid and distinctly bilabiate. The new genus contains 6 rather poorly known species occuring throughout the Himalayan region from the Chinese Province of Yunnan in the East to the western Himalayan foothills of Pakistan in the West. They had been placed in no fewer than 6 different genera over time (Calamintha, Clinopodium, Melissa, Micromeria, Satureja or even Thymus), whereas more recently they were united under Clinopodium. The species form a well supported phylogenetic lineage dissociated from typical Clinopodium and the other genera. It is more closely related to Ziziphora in the plastid DNA analyses or Cyclotrichium, Mentha and the Clinopodium abyssinicum group (also not close to typical Clinopodium) in the nuclear ribosomal DNA analyses. An overview on the complex taxonomic history is provided, morphological differences to related groups are outlined and the biogeography is discussed. Revising the material available from herbaria, literature and online databases, the genus and its component species are described in detail and an identification key is provided. For each species full synonymy, types and typifications are cited and the 5 names Calamintha barosma W.W.Sm., Calamintha euosma W.W.Sm., Clinopodium longicaule Benth., Micromeria wardii C.Marquand & Airy Shaw, and Thymus piperitus D.Don are typified. Notes on the species´ flowering time, ecology, altitudinal range, and distribution are added. Finally, images of the types and other herbarium specimens (incl. images of details), living plants and line drawings of diagnostic calyx characters are intended to support species identification.

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References:
Catalogue of Life  Annotated checklist of Flowering plants of Nepal  efi thread