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The genus Mentha is in the family Lamiaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Mentha

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Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Mentha alaica Boriss.	Accepted		WCSP
Mentha aquatica L.	Accepted		WCSP
Mentha arvensis L.	Accepted		WCSP
Mentha australis R.Br.	Accepted		WCSP
Mentha canadensis L.	Accepted		WCSP
Mentha × carinthiaca Host	Accepted		WCSP
Mentha cervina L.	Accepted		WCSP
Mentha cunninghamii (Benth.) Benth.	Accepted		WCSP
Mentha dahurica Fisch. ex Benth.	Accepted		WCSP
Mentha × dalmatica Tausch	Accepted		WCSP
Mentha darvasica Boriss.	Accepted		WCSP
Mentha diemenica Spreng.	Accepted		WCSP
Mentha × dumetorum Schult.	Accepted		WCSP
Mentha gattefossei Maire	Accepted		WCSP
Mentha × gayeri Trautm.	Accepted		WCSP
Mentha × gentilis L.	Accepted		WCSP
Mentha grandiflora Benth.	Accepted		WCSP
Mentha japonica (Miq.) Makino	Accepted		WCSP
Mentha × kuemmerlei Trautm.	Accepted		WCSP
Mentha laxiflora Benth.	Accepted		WCSP
Mentha × locyana Borbás	Accepted		WCSP
Mentha longifolia (L.) L.	Accepted		WCSP
Mentha × maximilianea F.W.Schultz	Accepted		WCSP
Mentha micrantha (Fisch. ex Benth.) Heinr.Braun	Accepted		WCSP
Mentha pamiroalaica Boriss.	Accepted		WCSP
Mentha × piperita L.	Accepted		WCSP
Mentha pulegium L.	Accepted		WCSP
Mentha × pyramidalis Ten.	Accepted		WCSP
Mentha requienii Benth.	Accepted		WCSP
Mentha × rotundifolia (L.) Huds.	Accepted		WCSP
Mentha royleana Wall. ex Benth.	Accepted		WCSP
Mentha saturejoides R.Br.	Accepted		WCSP
Mentha × smithiana R.A.Graham	Accepted		WCSP
Mentha spicata L.	Accepted		WCSP
Mentha suaveolens Ehrh.	Accepted		WCSP
Mentha × verticillata L.	Accepted		WCSP
Mentha × villosa Huds.	Accepted		WCSP
Mentha × villosa-nervata Opiz	Accepted		WCSP

Statistics

The Plant List includes 1,086 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Mentha. Of these 38 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 1,334 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Mentha. We do not intend The Plant List to be complete for names of infraspecific rank. These are primarily included because names of species rank are synonyms of accepted infraspecific names.

Species names

The status of the 1,086 species names for the genus Mentha recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	38	3.5%
◕	Synonym	775	71.4%
◕	Unplaced	270	24.9%
◕	Unassessed	3	0.3%

All names

The status of the 2,420 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Mentha recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	61	2.5%
◕	Synonym	2,085	86.2%
◕	Unplaced	271	11.2%
◕	Unassessed	3	0.1%

Of these names,

• 11 are recorded as invalid
• 76 are recorded as illegitimate

The confidence with which the status of the 1,086 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Mentha, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	38	769	0	0	807	74.3%
	Medium confidence	0	4	0	0	4	0.4%
	Low confidence	0	2	270	3	275	25.3%

The source of the species name record found in The Plant List for the genus Mentha, are as follows: