Melittis melissophyllum subsp. melissophyllum
This subspecies is accepted
The native range of this subspecies is W. & SW. Europe to Italy. It is a perennial and grows primarily in the temperate biome.
Distribution
Native to:
Austria, Corse, Czechoslovakia, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland
Extinct in:
Belgium
Synonyms
Heterotypic Synonyms
- Melissa sylvestris Lam. in Fl. Franç. 2: 401 (1779)
- Melissa tragi Garsault in Fig. Pl. Méd.: t. 372 (1764), opus utique oppr.
- Melittis grandiflora Sm. in Engl. Bot.: t. 577 (1799)
- Melittis grandiflora var. alba Gray in Nat. Arr. Brit. Pl. 2: 387 (1821 publ. 1822)
- Melittis hispanica Klokov in Bot. Mater. Gerb. Bot. Inst. Komarova Akad. Nauk S.S.S.R. 18: 195 (1957)
- Melittis kerneriana Klokov in Bot. Mater. Gerb. Bot. Inst. Komarova Akad. Nauk S.S.S.R. 18: 198 (1957)
- Melittis melissophyllum var. grandiflora (Sm.) Nyman in Consp. Fl. Eur.: 574 (1881)
- Oenonea melissifolia Bubani in Fl. Pyren. 1: 431 (1897)
Publications
POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:
- Govaerts, R. (2003). World Checklist of Selected Plant Families Database in ACCESS: 1-216203. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Other Data
Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:
Sources
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Kew Backbone Distributions
- The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2023. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
- © Copyright 2022 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
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Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone
- The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2023. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
- © Copyright 2022 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
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Kew Science Photographs
- Copyright applied to individual images