Clinopodium suaveolens(Sm.) Kuntze

WFO wfo-0000893225 Accepted WFO 2026-06 3 photographs CC0

Plate 1 figs. a–c · 1 observation

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 1 time, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Clinopodium suaveolens, photographed by Francesco Cecere
fig. a Francesco Cecere, CC0 1.0 / 2016-12-26 / obs. 5886182

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Accession
K000193492
Filed as
Clinopodium suaveolens (Sm.) Kuntze
Det. by
not recorded on this sheet
Collected
Haussknecht, C. 1885-07-01
Origin
GR
The sheet
View the digitised specimen (CC BY 4.0)

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Native range 8 botanical countries

Regions where Clinopodium suaveolens is native: East Aegean Is., Türkiye, Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Italy, Romania, Türkiye-in-Europe East Aegean Is.TürkiyeAlbaniaBulgariaGreeceItalyRomaniaTürkiye-in-Europe
Native distribution of Clinopodium suaveolens, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Albania ALB EUROPE
Bulgaria BUL
Greece GRC
Italy ITA
Romania ROM
Türkiye-in-Europe TUE
East Aegean Is. EAI ASIA-TEMPERATE
Türkiye TUR

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 30 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Acinos heterophyllus G.Don
  • Acinos suaveolens (Sm.) G.Don
  • Acinos suaveolens f. acuminatus (Velen.) Šilic
  • Acinos suaveolens f. tinctus (Bornm.) Šilic
  • Acinos suaveolens subsp. bulgaricus Chrtek
  • Acinos suaveolens subsp. kalampacanus Chrtek
  • Acinos suaveolens subsp. thessalicus Chrtek
  • Acinos suaveolens var. viridis (Heldr. & Hausskn.) Šilic
  • Calamintha acinoides (Ten.) Nyman
  • Calamintha acuminata Friv.
  • Calamintha langei Nyman
  • Calamintha patavina Heldr. ex Nyman
  • Calamintha patavina var. acuminata Griseb.
  • Calamintha rotundifolia Rchb.f.
  • Calamintha suaveolens (Sm.) Boiss.
  • Calamintha suaveolens f. tincta Bornm.
  • Calamintha suaveolens var. acinoides (Ten.) Nyman
  • Calamintha suaveolens var. acuminata Velen.
  • Calamintha suaveolens var. viridis Heldr. & Hausskn.
  • Melissa acinoides (Ten.) Nyman
  • Melissa suaveolens (Sm.) Nyman
  • Satureja alpina subsp. suaveolens (Sm.) Briq.
  • Satureja alpina var. suaveolens (Sm.) Briq.
  • Satureja alpina var. viridis (Heldr. & Hausskn.) Briq.

and 6 more.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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