{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}} {{Distinguish|Phyla canescens}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Lippia alba.jpg | image_caption = ''Lippia alba'' | taxon = Lippia | authority = L. | type_species = ''Lippia americana'' | type_species_authority = L.<!---1753---><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.tropicos.org/Name/40007502 |title=''Lippia'' L. |work=TROPICOS |publisher=Missouri Botanical Garden |access-date=2009-12-02}}</ref> | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = See text | synonyms = *''Bertolonia'' {{small|Raf., nom. illeg.}} *''Burroughsia'' {{small|Moldenke}} *''Dipterocalyx'' {{small|Cham.}} *''Goniostachyum'' {{small|(Schauer) Small}} *''Zapania'' {{small|Lam., orth. var.}} *''Zappania'' {{small|Scop.}} | synonyms_ref = <ref name = powo>{{cite web |title=''Lippia'' L. |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:330566-2 |website=Plants of the World Online |publisher=Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew |access-date=8 May 2025}}</ref> }}
'''''Lippia''''' is a genus of flowering plants in the verbena family, Verbenaceae. It was named after Augustin Lippi (1678–1705), a French-Italian naturalist and botanist. The genus contains roughly 200 species of tropical shrubs that are found around the world. Plants are fragrant due to their essential oils, which vary between species but may include estragole, carvacrol, linalool or limonene. The leaves of certain species, such as ''L. graveolens'', can be used as a culinary herb similar to oregano.<ref name="Tucker">{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Vn5Rd-Yo-g4C |first=Arthur O. |last=Tucker |author2=Thomas DeBaggio |title=The Encyclopedia of Herbs: A Comprehensive Reference to Herbs of Flavor and Fragrance |edition=2 |year=2009 |publisher=Timber Press |isbn=978-0-88192-994-2 |pages=297–300}}</ref>
==Selected species== * ''Lippia abyssinica'' <small>(Otto & A.Dietr.) Cufod.<ref name="Kew">{{cite web |url=https://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=113304 |title=World Checklist of Selected Plant Families: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew |publisher=Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew |access-date=2017-08-01}}</ref></small> – Ethiopia * ''Lippia alba'' <small>(Mill.) N.E.Br. ex Britton & P.Wilson</small> – Bushy lippia, white lippia (United States (Texas), Mexico, the Caribbean, Central America, and South America)<ref name="Tucker"/> * ''Lippia carterae'' <small>(Moldenke) G.L.Nesom</small> – Licorice verbena (Baja California, Mexico)<ref name="Tucker"/> * ''Lippia dulcis'' <small>Trevir.</small> * ''Lippia durangensis'' <small>Moldenke</small> * ''Lippia graveolens'' <small>Kunth</small> – Mexican oregano, scented lippia, scented matgrass (Southwestern United States, Mexico, and Central America as far south as Nicaragua) * ''Lippia javanica'' <small>(Burm.f.) Spreng.</small> * ''Lippia kituiensis'' <small>Vatke</small> * ''Lippia micromera'' <small>Schauer</small> – False oregano (Central America, the Caribbean, and northern South America)<ref name="Tucker"/> * ''Lippia multiflora'' <small>Moldenke</small> * ''Lippia myriocephala'' <small>Schltdl. & Cham.</small> * ''Lippia palmeri'' <small>S.Watson</small> * ''Lippia pretoriensis'' <small>H.Pearson</small> * ''Lippia rehmannii'' <small>H.Pearson</small> * ''Lippia salicifolia'' <small>Andersson</small> (Ecuador) * ''Lippia scaberrima'' <small>Sond.</small> * ''Lippia sidoides'' <small>Cham.</small><ref name="GRINSpecies">{{cite web |url=http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/splist.pl?6881 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20121211224120/http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/splist.pl?6881 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2012-12-11 |title=GRIN Species records of ''Lippia'' |work=Germplasm Resources Information Network |publisher=United States Department of Agriculture |access-date=2010-09-13 }}</ref><ref name="ITIS">{{ITIS |id=32065 |taxon=Lippia |access-date=21 January 2010}}</ref> * ''Lippia stoechadifolia'' {{small|(L.) Kunth}} * ''Lippia substrigosa'' <small>Turcz.</small> * ''Lippia thymoides'' <small>Mart. & Schauer</small>
===Formerly placed here=== * ''Aloysia citrodora'' <small>Palau</small> (as ''L. citrodora'' <small>Kunth</small> or ''L. triphylla'' <small>(L'Hér.) Kuntze</small>) * ''Aloysia lycioides'' <small>Cham.</small> (as ''L. lycioides'' <small>(Cham.) Steud.</small>) * ''Aloysia scorodonioides'' <small>(Kunth) Cham.</small> (as ''L. scorodonioides'' <small>Kunth</small> or ''L. wrightii'' <small>A.Gray ex Torr.</small>) * ''Lantana montevidensis'' <small>(Spreng.) Briq.</small> (as ''L. montevidensis'' <small>Spreng.</small>) * ''Lantana ukambensis'' <small>(Vatke) Verdc.</small> (as ''L. ukambensis'' <small>Vatke</small>) * ''Mulguraea ligustrina'' <small>(Lag.) N.O'Leary & P.Peralta</small> (as ''L. ligustrina'' <small>(Lag.) Britton</small>) * ''Phyla canescens'' <small>(Kunth) Greene</small> (as ''L. canescens'' <small>Kunth</small> or ''L. filiformis'' <small>Schrad.</small>) * ''Phyla cuneifolia'' <small>(Torr.) Greene</small> (as ''L. cuneifolia'' <small>(Torr.) Steud.</small>) * ''Phyla lanceolata'' <small>(Michx.) Greene </small> (as ''L. lanceolata'' <small>Michx.</small>) * ''Phyla nodiflora'' <small>(L.) Greene</small> (as ''L. nodiflora'' <small>(L.) Michx.</small> or ''L. repens'' <small>Spreng.</small>) * ''Salimenaea integrifolia'' {{small|(Griseb.) N.O'Leary & P.Moroni}} (as ''L. integrifolia'' {{small|(Griseb.) Hieron.}} or ''L. boliviana'' {{small|Rusby}})
==References== {{Reflist}}
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Category:Lippia Category:Verbenaceae genera Category:Herbs
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