Description
Perennial herbs with creeping rootstocks, often strongly scented.
Leaves often gland-dotted.
Flowers small, in axillary verticillasters (in Mal.) or forming terminal spicate to paniculate inflorescences.
Stamens 4, slightly didynamous;
Distribution
Asia-Tropical, Old World present, northern temperate regions present
Thirty or more spp., and many hybrids, mainly in the northern temperate regions of the Old World; in Malesia: 1 sp. possibly native, some others cultivated.
Citation
LINNE 1753: Sp. Pl.: 592
KENG 1969 – In: Gard. Bull. Sing.: 111
BTH. 1876 – In: B. & H., Gen. Pl. 2: 1182
DE WOLF 1954: p. 3. – In: Baileya: cult. spp., key
BRIQ. 1896 – In: E. & P., Nat. Pfl. Fam. 4: 317
