@article {Moon:2006p1113,
	title = {Nutlet morphology and anatomy of the genus Lycopus (Lamiaceae : Mentheae)},
	journal = {Journal of Plant Research},
	volume = {119},
	number = {6},
	year = {2006},
	month = {Jan},
	pages = {633{\textendash}644},
	abstract = {Nutlet morphology and pericarp structure of 16 species in the genus Lycopus were studied by light microscopy (LM) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM), and a detailed description of nutlet morphological features for all examined taxa is provided. The nutlets of all taxa in the genus Lycopus are well adapted to typical hydrochory (or nautochory) with an air-filled pericarp, and myxocarpy was not at all found. It is noteworthy that the nutlet morphology (in particular the shape of corky crests and corky ring and the distribution of glandular trichomes) and pericarp anatomy of Lycopacs are unique and are well distinguished from the other genera in the tribe Mentheae. We also found some groups of the species within the genus Lycopus by the present nutlet morphological and anatomical data that appear to be useful as diagnostic characteristics for delineation purposes at the specific/interspecific levels. The earlier infrageneric classification for the genus Lycopus is, however, not well supported by the present results. In addition, the systematic and biological implications of the nutlet characteristics investigated are briefly discussed.},
	keywords = {Genera, Labiatae, Lamiaceae, Lycopus, Mentheae, Nutlet Morphology, Pericarp Anatomy, Pericarp Structure, Phylogeny, Verbenaceae},
	doi = {10.1007/s10265-006-0023-6},
	url = {http://www.springerlink.com/content/97q7487377703q2w/},
	author = {Hye-Kyoung Moon and Suk-Pyo Hong}
}
@article {SchmidtLebuhn:2008p1105,
	title = {Monophyly and phylogenetic relationships of Minthostachys (Labiatae, Nepetoideae) examined using morphological and nrITS data},
	journal = {Plant Systematics and Evolution},
	volume = {270},
	number = {1-2},
	year = {2008},
	month = {Jan},
	pages = {25{\textendash}38},
	abstract = {Minthostachys (Benth.) Spach (Labiatae) from Andean South America was long held to be closely related to Macaronesian Bystropogon L{\textquoteright}Her. or to North American Pycnanthemum Michx. The possibility of a close relationship to elements of South American Satureja/Clinopodium s.l. is here proposed for the first time, and a phylogenetic analysis of nrITS data is employed to test the competing hypotheses. For Minthostachys and its putative closest relatives, the possible evolution of morphological characters is investigated with a cladistic analysis. The results suggest that Minthostachys is nested in a clade of South American Mentheae, and probably in the former genus Xenopoma Willd., a group of small-flowered, bee-pollinated species currently included in Clinopodium L.. Minthostachys is considered monophyletic based on nrITS data and its scandent habit.},
	keywords = {Bootstrap, Bystropogon, Confidence, Genus Bystropogon Lamiaceae, Its, Labiatae, Lamiaceae, Limits, Mentheae, Minthostachys, Mu(N)Over-Tildea, Nuclear Ribosomal Dna, Region},
	doi = {10.1007/s00606-007-0598-y},
	url = {http://www.springerlink.com/content/m572q7rj3u8225h8/},
	author = {A. N Schmidt-Lebuhn}
}
@article {Braeuchler:2008p1106,
	title = {Killickia (Lamiaceae): a new genus from KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa},
	journal = {Bot J Linn Soc},
	volume = {157},
	number = {3},
	year = {2008},
	month = {Jan},
	pages = {575{\textendash}586},
	abstract = {The genus Killickia is described to accommodate the South African endemic species formerly placed in Micromeria sect. Hesperothymus. Morphological data, as well as results from unpublished phylogenetic studies support its separation from the genera Micromeria and Clinopodium. A new species Killickia lutea Brauchler is described and three new combinations are made. Killickia is characterised as comprising solitary- or few-flowered cymes, a campanulate to subcampanulate (obconical) calyx with similar teeth, a corolla tube with two pubescent ridges and nutlets with scattered minute hairs. A thickened marginal vein in the leaves as typical for Micromeria is absent. As currently understood all species are restricted to the Drakensberg mountains and KwaZulu-Natal Midlands in eastern South Africa. A key to the species, brief notes on anatomy and ecology are provided. (c) 2008 The Linnean Society of London.},
	keywords = {Anatomy, Clinopodium, Labiatae, Mentheae, Menthinae, Micromeria, Nepetoideae, New Species, Revision, Satureja, Sem, Taxonomy},
	url = {http://apps.isiknowledge.com/InboundService.do?product=WOS\&action=retrieve\&SrcApp=Papers\&UT=000257717600013\&SID=2AFL5dnj5MCc8JPedL5\&SrcAuth=mekentosj\&mode=FullRecord\&customersID=mekentosj\&DestFail=http\%253A\%252F\%252Faccess.isiproducts.com\%252Fcustom_image},
	author = {Christian Braeuchler and Anton Doroszenko and Hans-Joachim Esser and Guenther Heubl}
}
@article {Moon:2010p2761,
	title = {Phylogeny of tribe Mentheae (Lamiaceae): The story of molecules and micromorphological characters},
	journal = {Taxon},
	volume = {59},
	number = {4},
	year = {2010},
	month = {Jan},
	pages = {1065{\textendash}1076},
	abstract = {Mentheae are the largest tribe in the family Lamiaceae and economically important, including herbs like mint, sage and thyme. The evolutionary history of this tribe was reconstructed based on ITS and trnL-trnF spacer sequence data of 71 species, representing. 47 out of 65 genera. The resulting phylogeny was used to analyse the distribution of selected morphological characteristics such as sexine ornamentation of pollen, nutlet shape with existence of abscission scar and its form, and trichome types. Two monophyletic groups are recognized, which largely correspond to the current subtribal circumscription. Subtribe Salviinae is monophyletic, including the genus Melissa which was a genus of uncertain affinity in Mentheae. Subtribe Menthinae is not monophyletic since Cleonia, Horminum, Hyssopus, Lycopus and Prunella are more closely related with subtribe Nepetinae. Although we could not detect any morphological synapomorphies for each clade, morphological variation seems to be correlated with the molecular phylogeny. A circular abscission scar without distinct lateral areole occurred mainly in Salviinae, while the majority of the species of Mentheae and Nepetinae had a clear areole at the abscission scar. In addition, a reticulate sexine ornamentation is rather common in the Menthinae clade.},
	keywords = {Anatomy, Dna, Evolution, Inference, Labiatae, Lamiaceae, Mentheae, Micromorphology, Morphology, Nepetoideae Lamiaceae, Phylogeny, Salvia Lamiaceae, Sequence Data, Verbenaceae},
	author = {Hye-Kyoung Moon and Erik Smets and Suzy Huysmans}
}
@article {Moon:2003p1112,
	title = {Pollen morphology of the genus Lycopus (Lamiaceae)},
	journal = {Annales Botanici Fennici},
	volume = {40},
	number = {3},
	year = {2003},
	month = {Jan},
	pages = {191{\textendash}198},
	abstract = {The pollen morphology of 15 species (34 specimens) of the genus Lycopus (Lamiaceae, Mentheae) was studied and documented in detail using light microscopy (LM), scanning electron (SEM), and transmission electron microscopy (TEM). The pollen is mostly medium or sometimes small in size, with a circular amb, oblate to prolate in shape, hexacolpate with granular membranes; the exine is bi-reticulate, with unbranched columellae and a continuous, lamellated endexine. The results indicate that Lycopus is stenopalynous; thus the value of pollen characters for taxonomic applications is limited. Some phylogenetic relationships with other related taxa within the tribe Mentheae are also briefly discussed.},
	keywords = {Labiatae, Lamiaceae, Lycopus, Mentheae, Pollen Morphology, Sem, Systematics, Tem},
	url = {http://apps.isiknowledge.com/InboundService.do?product=WOS\&action=retrieve\&SrcApp=Papers\&UT=000184654300003\&SID=2AFL5dnj5MCc8JPedL5\&SrcAuth=mekentosj\&mode=FullRecord\&customersID=mekentosj\&DestFail=http\%253A\%252F\%252Faccess.isiproducts.com\%252Fcustom_image},
	author = {HK Moon and SP Hong}
}
@article {Moon:2008p1104,
	title = {Palynological evolutionary trends within the tribe Mentheae with special emphasis on subtribe Menthinae (Nepetoideae: Lamiaceae)},
	journal = {Plant Systematics and Evolution},
	volume = {275},
	number = {1-2},
	year = {2008},
	month = {Jan},
	pages = {93{\textendash}108},
	abstract = {The pollen morphology of subtribe Menthinae sensu Harley et al. [In: The families and genera of vascular plants VII. Flowering plants.dicotyledons: Lamiales (except Acanthaceae including Avicenniaceae). Springer, Berlin, pp 167-275, 2004] and two genera of uncertain subtribal affinities (Heterolamium and Melissa) are documented in order to complete our palynological overview of the tribe Mentheae. Menthinae pollen is small to medium in size (13-43 mu m), oblate to prolate in shape and mostly hexacolpate (sometimes pentacolpate). Perforate, microreticulate or bireticulate exine ornamentation types were observed. The exine ornamentation of Menthinae is systematically highly informative particularly at generic level. The exine stratification in all taxa studied is characterized by unbranched columellae. Orbicules are consistently absent in Menthinae. Our palynological data are interpreted in a phylogenetic context at tribal level in order to assess the systematic value of pollen characters and to evaluate the existing molecular phylogenies for this group. Pollen morphology suggests Heterolamium as a close relative of subtribe Nepetinae and supports the molecular affinity of Melissa to subtribe Salviinae.},
	keywords = {Angiosperms, Bireticulum, Exine Ornamentation, Labiatae, Mentheae, Menthinae, Nepetoideae, Orbicules, Palynology, Phylogeny, Pollen Morphology, Salvia Lamiaceae, Sequence Data, Systematic Implications, Tapetum, Ultrastructure},
	doi = {10.1007/s00606-008-0042-y},
	url = {http://www.springerlink.com/content/r53652ggm17k1457/},
	author = {Hye-Kyoung Moon and Stefan Vinckier and Erik Smets and Suzy Huysmans}
}
@booklet {Walker:2007p1114,
	title = {Staminal evolution in the genus Salvia (Lamiaceae): Molecular phylogenetic evidence for multiple origins of the staminal lever},
	howpublished = {Annals of Botany},
	volume = {100},
	number = {2},
	year = {2007},
	month = {Jan},
	pages = {375{\textendash}391},
	abstract = {Background and Aims The genus Salvia has traditionally included any member of the tribe Mentheae (Lamiaceae) with only two stamens and with each stamen expressing an elongate connective. The recent demonstration of the non-monophyly of the genus presents interesting implications for staminal evolution in the tribe Mentheae. In the context of a molecular phylogeny, the staminal morphology of the various lineages of Salvia and related genera is characterized and an evolutionary interpretation of staminal variation within the tribe Mentheae is presented.Methods Two molecular analyses are presented in order to investigate phylogenetic relationships in the tribe Mentheae and the genus Salvia. The first presents a tribal survey of the Mentheae and the second concentrates on Salvia and related genera. Schematic sketches are presented for the staminal morphology of each major lineage of Salvia and related genera.Key Results These analyses suggest an independent origin of the staminal elongate connective on at least three different occasions within the tribe Mentheae, each time with a distinct morphology. Each independent origin of the lever mechanism shows a similar progression of staminal change from slight elongation of the connective tissue separating two fertile thecae to abortion of the posterior thecae and fusion of adjacent posterior thecae. A monophyletic lineage within the Mentheae is characterized consisting of the genera Lepechinia, Melissa, Salvia, Dorystaechas, Meriandra, Zhumeria, Perovskia and Rosmarinus.Conclusions Based on these results the following are characterized: (1) the independent origin of the staminal lever mechanism on at least three different occasions in Salvia, (2) that Salvia is clearly polyphyletic, with five other genera intercalated within it, and (3) staminal evolution has proceeded in different ways in each of the three lineages of Salvia but has resulted in remarkably similar staminal morphologies.},
	keywords = {Diversification, Dorystaechas, Floral Evolution, Floral Nectar Spurs, Incongruence, Key Innovation, Labiatae, Lepechinia, Melissa, Mentheae, Meriandra, Perovskia, Radiation, Rosmarinus, Salvia, Sequences, Staminal Morphology, Zhumeria},
	doi = {10.1093/aob/mcl176},
	url = {http://aob.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/100/2/375},
	author = {Jay B Walker and Kenneth J Sytsma}
}
@article {SchmidtLebuhn:2007p466,
	title = {Using amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP) to unravel species relationships and delimitations in Minthostachys (Labiatae)},
	journal = {Bot J Linn Soc},
	volume = {153},
	number = {1},
	year = {2007},
	month = {Jan},
	pages = {9{\textendash}19},
	abstract = {Minthostachys (Benth.) Spach (Labiatae) is a South American genus of aromatic shrubs frequently collected as a condiment, for the preparation of tea, or for medicinal purposes. Notoriously difficult species delimitation, conflicting taxonomic treatments of the past, and the lack of a revision with modern methods have hampered the understanding of this ecologically and economically interesting group. The amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP) study presented in this paper supplements field and morphological studies within the framework of a taxonomic and systematic revision. AFLP is found to be unsuitable for the reconstruction of the phylogeny of Minthostachys. Although, in some cases, morphologically well-defined species are also genetically distinct, extensive gene flow seems to occur between strikingly different species growing in the immediate vicinity and even between Minthostachys and Clinopodium (Xenopoma) vanum. Samples from the most complicated species, M. mollis, are genetically very heterogeneous and mostly fall into two clusters according to their geographical origin, exhibiting a high discrepancy with the pattern of morphological variation. (c) 2007 The Linnean Society of London, Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, 2007, 153, 9-19.},
	keywords = {Andes, Constituents, Evolution, Genetic-Variation, Lamiaceae, Markers, Mentheae, Morphology, Neotropical, Plants},
	author = {Alexander N Schmidt-Lebuhn}
}
