@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: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}
}
