Higher Classification: > Kingdom Plantae > Division Tracheophyta > Subdivision Spermatophytina > Class Magnoliopsida > Superorder Asteranae > Order Lamiales > Family Lamiaceae > Genus Melissa

Melissa officinalis L.

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

MelissaL.accepted genus name
Mutelia Gren. ex Mutel heterotypic synonym

Species group names

Faucibarba officinalis (L.) Dulac homotypic synonym
Mutelia officinalis (L.) Gren. ex Mutel homotypic synonym
Thymus melissa E. H. L. Krause homotypic synonym

Children

Melissa officinalis L. subsp. officinalis
Melissa officinalis subsp. altissima (Sm.) Arcang.
Melissa officinalis subsp. inodora Bornm.

Vernaculars (+) (-)

 Aragonese: melisa; tolonjina; torongina; toronjina; tronjina sources: Anthos (2010). Information System of the plants of Spain. Real Jardín Botánico, CSIC - Fundación Biodiversidad. (for names from the Iberian Peninsula and the Balearic Islands).
 Asturian: beh.era; herba luisa; luisa; melisa sources: Anthos (2010). Information System of the plants of Spain. Real Jardín Botánico, CSIC - Fundación Biodiversidad. (for names from the Iberian Peninsula and the Balearic Islands).
 Catalan: arangí; cidrac; citronella; herba abellera; herba cidrera; herba llimonera; melissa; tarongí; tarongina; torongi; torongina sources: Anthos (2010). Information System of the plants of Spain. Real Jardín Botánico, CSIC - Fundación Biodiversidad. (for names from the Iberian Peninsula and the Balearic Islands).
 Dutch: Citroenmelisse sources: Dutch Species Register
 English: Balm sources: Nash, Roisin (FaEu - Ecological Consultancy Services Ltd (Ecoserve))
 English-United States: Balm sources: Charles Hussey
 Euskera: garraisca; garraisca belarra; garraiska; garraiska-belarr; laranias; limoe-bedarr; limoe-belarr; torongilla sources: Anthos (2010). Information System of the plants of Spain. Real Jardín Botánico, CSIC - Fundación Biodiversidad. (for names from the Iberian Peninsula and the Balearic Islands).
 Galician: abellariza; abillariza; abilleira; apiastro; avelleira; belleira; cidre; cidreira; citronella-menor; cobo; copat; copeira; erba-cidreira; erva-cidreira; herba abella; herba abellera; herba belleira; herba cidreira; herba velleira; hierba abilleira; Lus na meala; melisa; melissa; meliteira; toronxil; tronxil; trungil; trunjil; trunxil sources: Anthos (2010). Information System of the plants of Spain. Real Jardín Botánico, CSIC - Fundación Biodiversidad. (for names from the Iberian Peninsula and the Balearic Islands).
 High Aragonese: té de huerto; tolonjina; toronjina; tronjina sources: Anthos (2010). Information System of the plants of Spain. Real Jardín Botánico, CSIC - Fundación Biodiversidad. (for names from the Iberian Peninsula and the Balearic Islands).
 Irish: Lus na meala sources: Nash, Roisin (FaEu - Ecological Consultancy Services Ltd (Ecoserve))
 Majorcan: arangí; aranjí; tarongí; tarongí-ina; tarongina; torongí sources: Anthos (2010). Information System of the plants of Spain. Real Jardín Botánico, CSIC - Fundación Biodiversidad. (for names from the Iberian Peninsula and the Balearic Islands).
 Norwegian Bokmål: sitronmelisse
 Norwegian Nynorsk: sitronmelisse
 Portuguese: apiastro; belleira; cidreira; citronela; citronela-menor; citronella menor; citronella-menor; erva cidreira; erva-cidreira; herba abelleira; herva cidreira; limonete; meliphyllo; melisa verdadeira; melissa; meliteira; meliteria sources: Anthos (2010). Information System of the plants of Spain. Real Jardín Botánico, CSIC - Fundación Biodiversidad. (for names from the Iberian Peninsula and the Balearic Islands).
 Spanish, Castillian: abeyera; albedarumbre; apiastro; bedaranjí; cedrón; cidrón; cidronela; cidronella; citraria; hierba cidra; hierba limonera; hierba luna; hoja de limón; limoncillo; limonera borde; melisa oficinal; te de calazo; torojil; torongil; torongil cidrado; torongil de limón; torongilla; torongina; toronjí; toronjil falso; toronjina; verde-limón; yerba cidrera sources: Anthos (2010). Information System of the plants of Spain. Real Jardín Botánico, CSIC - Fundación Biodiversidad. (for names from the Iberian Peninsula and the Balearic Islands).
 Swedish: citronmeliss
 Turkish: Ogul otu
 Valencian: melissa; tarongil; tarongina sources: Anthos (2010). Information System of the plants of Spain. Real Jardín Botánico, CSIC - Fundación Biodiversidad. (for names from the Iberian Peninsula and the Balearic Islands).
 Welsh: balm

Literature

nomenclatural reference

Nyman], Sp. Pl. 1753.

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World Checklist of Selected Plant Families (2010), copyright © The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Melissa officinalis L.. Accessed through: Euro+Med PlantBase at http://ww2.bgbm.org/euroPlusMed/PTaxonDetail.asp?UUID=58A761C8-7F51-4DAF-8377-3B713F621299

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