Vascular Plants Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)

Showing Mentha x piperita
Lamiaceae Martinov
Mentha x piperita L. , legitimate, named hybrid
Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 2: 576 [tax. nov.]
  • Type: "Habitat in Anglia."
Black, J.M. (December 1926), Meliaceae - Scrophulariaceae. Flora of South Australia 3: 487 [secondary reference]
common name: Peppermint [n/a]
Black, J.M. & Robertson, E.L. (1957), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 4: 732 [secondary reference]
common name: Peppermint [n/a]
  • Text: "M. aquatica x spicata"
Curtis, W.M. (1967), Angiospermae: Plumbaginaceae to Salicaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 3: 545 [secondary reference]
common name: Peppermint [n/a]
Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1972), Flora of the Sydney Region Edn. 2: 511 [secondary reference]
Tucker, A.O., Harley, R.M. & Fairbrothers, D.E. (1980), The Linnaean Types of Mentha (Lamiaceae). Taxon 29(2/3): 235 [secondary reference]
  • Lectotype: "Typotype: Sherardian specimen in Herb. Sherard (OXF; Fig. 6)."
Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 136 [secondary reference]
Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 146 [secondary reference]
Wheeler, J.R. in Marchant, N.G., Wheeler, J.R., Rye, B.L., Bennett, E.M., Lander, N.S. & Macfarlane, T.D. (1987), Lamiaceae. Flora of the Perth Region 1: 563 [secondary reference]
common name: Eau de Cologne Mint [n/a] common name: Bergamot Mint [n/a]
Conn, B.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1992), Lamiaceae. Flora of New South Wales 3: 632-633 [secondary reference]
Green, P.S. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (1994), Norfolk Island & Lord Howe Island. Flora of Australia 49: 319 APC [secondary reference]
  • APC Comment: A sterile hybrid between Mentha aquatica and Mentha spicata.
  • APC Dist.: WA (naturalised), SA (naturalised), NSW (naturalised), NI (naturalised), ACT (naturalised), Vic (naturalised), Tas (naturalised)
Paczkowska, G. & Chapman, A.R. (2000), The Western Australian Flora, a descriptive catalogue: 274 [secondary reference]
Bown, D. (2002), New Encyclopedia of Herbs & Their Uses Edn. Revised: 275 [secondary reference]
common name: Peppermint [n/a]
Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Dicotyledons. Flora of the South West 2: 646 [secondary reference]
common name: Bergamot Mint [n/a] common name: Eau de Cologne Mint [n/a]
Western Australian Herbarium (2007), FloraBase: the Western Australian Flora Version 2.5: - [secondary reference]
State Herbarium of South Australia (2008), Fact sheets. The Electronic Flora of South Australia: - [secondary reference]
National Herbarium of New South Wales (2009), PlantNET Flora of New South Wales Online: - [secondary reference]
common name: Peppermint [n/a]
de Salas, M.F. & Baker, M.L. (2016), Tasmanian vascular plant census. A Census of the Vascular Plants of Tasmania, including Macquarie Island: 52 [secondary reference]