Plant Details

Accepted name:: Mentha pulegium L. [Lamiaceae]
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Source:: World Checklist of Vascular Plants

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
barska nana	Other	Native Med. Pl. of Mt. Rtanj (Zlatković et al., 2014)
brizolo	Other	Wild Edible Pl. of Paphos & Larnaca of Cyprus (Della et al., 2006)
chun e bo he	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
european pennyroyal	Other	Dr. Duke's Databases: Ethnobotanical Subset (Duke, 2016) GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
feliou	Other	Wild Med. Pl. in M'Sila, Algeria (Boudjelal et al., 2013)
fliyu	Other	Phenolics in Moroccan Med. Pl. Spp. (Mouhajir et al., 2001)
foudenaj	Other	Trad. Persian Med. Pl. Database (Rahimi et al., 2018)
hortelã-miúda	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024)
melissa	Other	Med. Pl. of NE Brazil (Fátima Agra et al., 2008)
menta	Other	Brazilian Med. Pl. Germplasm (Scherwinski-Pereira et al., 2010) Med. Pl. in Loja & Zamora-Chinchipe, Ecuador (Tene et al., 2007)
menta poleo	Other	MHT. 103 Especies Vegetales (Ministero de Salud, Chile, 2010)
menta-miúda	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024)
mentha pulegium	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacop. (HPUS, 2009)
mentha pulegium whole	Other	Global Substance Registration System (GSRS) (FDA/NCATS, 2024)
menthe pouliot	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024)
mjata blošnica	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024)
naanaa	Other	Trad. Med. in Syria: Folk Med. in Aleppo (Alachkara et al., 2011)
nane	Other	Med. Pl. Trade Turkey (Özhatay et al., 1997) Med. Pl. in E Black Sea Region of Turkey (Toksoy et al., 2010)
penny royal	Other	Ethnomedica (RBG, Kew, 2020) Food Pl. in Seven Circum-Medit. Areas (Hadjichambis et al., 2009)
pennyroyal	Other	Ethnomedica (RBG, Kew, 2020) GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024) Herbal Meds., 3rd edn. (Barnes et al., 2007) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020) Tea and Herbal Infusions Europe Pl. Inventory (THIE, 2021) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
pennyroyal oil	Other	Food Chemicals Codex, 11th edn. (USP, 2018) Food Chemicals Codex, 6th edn. (USP, 2008)
poejo	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024) Med. Pl. Traded in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (Leitão et al., 2014) Med. Pl. of NE Brazil (Fátima Agra et al., 2008) Pl. Med. e Relig. em Mercados no RJ, Brasil (de Azevedo & Silva, 2006) Pl. for Malaria, Pl. for Fever (Milliken, 2021)
poejo-branco	Other	Med. Pl. Traded in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (Leitão et al., 2014)
poejo-das-hortas	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024)
poejo-real	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024)
poleiminze	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024) Tea and Herbal Infusions Europe Pl. Inventory (THIE, 2021)
polejmynta	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024)
poleo	Other	Dr. Duke's Databases: Ethnobotanical Subset (Duke, 2016) GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024) Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020) MHT. 103 Especies Vegetales (Ministero de Salud, Chile, 2010)
potamoïtanos	Other	Herbal Market of Cyprus (Karousou & Deirmentzoglou, 2011)
poudaneh	Other	Trad. Persian Med. Pl. Database (Rahimi et al., 2018)
pouliot	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024)
pouneh	Other	Trad. Persian Med. Pl. Database (Rahimi et al., 2018)
printzóllos	Other	Med. Pl. Use: Monasteries on Cyprus (Lardos & Heinrich, 2013)
pulegio	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024)
spanish pennyroyal	Other	Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020)
squaw mint	Other	Herbal Meds., 3rd edn. (Barnes et al., 2007)
yarpuz	Other	Dr. Duke's Databases: Ethnobotanical Subset (Duke, 2016)
πριντζιόλλος	Other	Modern Pl. Use in Monasteries on Cyprus, 2006-2012 (Lardos, 2016)
النعناع	Other	Trad. Med. in Syria: Folk Med. in Aleppo (Alachkara et al., 2011)
فودنج	Other	Trad. Persian Med. Pl. Database (Rahimi et al., 2018)
پودنه	Other	Trad. Persian Med. Pl. Database (Rahimi et al., 2018)
پونه	Other	Trad. Persian Med. Pl. Database (Rahimi et al., 2018)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
Leaf		Med. Pl. in Loja & Zamora-Chinchipe, Ecuador (Tene et al., 2007)
Aerial parts		Wild Med. Pl. in M'Sila, Algeria (Boudjelal et al., 2013)
Herba		Native Med. Pl. of Mt. Rtanj (Zlatković et al., 2014)
Herb		Herbal Meds., 3rd edn. (Barnes et al., 2007)
Leaf		Trad. Persian Med. Pl. Database (Rahimi et al., 2018)
leaves		Wild Edible Pl. of Paphos & Larnaca of Cyprus (Della et al., 2006)
leaves		Food Pl. in Seven Circum-Medit. Areas (Hadjichambis et al., 2009)
aerial parts		Herbal Market of Cyprus (Karousou & Deirmentzoglou, 2011)
tender shoot		Med. Pl. Use: Monasteries on Cyprus (Lardos & Heinrich, 2013)
tender tops		Modern Pl. Use in Monasteries on Cyprus, 2006-2012 (Lardos, 2016)
leaves		Trad. Med. in Syria: Folk Med. in Aleppo (Alachkara et al., 2011)
aerial parts		Phenolics in Moroccan Med. Pl. Spp. (Mouhajir et al., 2001)
leaf	oil	Med. Pl. in E Black Sea Region of Turkey (Toksoy et al., 2010)
plant	fresh or partly dried plant	Food Chemicals Codex, 11th edn. (USP, 2018)
leaf		Med. Pl. Trade Turkey (Özhatay et al., 1997)
whole plant	oil	Food Chemicals Codex, 6th edn. (USP, 2008)
leaf, entire plant		Med. Pl. of NE Brazil (Fátima Agra et al., 2008)
tallo, hojas, flores		MHT. 103 Especies Vegetales (Ministero de Salud, Chile, 2010)

Kew's taxonomic resources include 89 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Mentha pulegium var. eriantha DC. in J.B.A.M.de Lamarck & A.P.de Candolle, Fl. Franç., éd. 3. 6: 400 (1815).
Calamintha fenzlii Vis. Atti Reale Ist. Veneto Sci. Lett. Arti, ser. 3, 1: 300 (1855).
Melissa pulegium (L.) Griseb. Spic. Fl. Rumel. 2: 125 (1844).
Mentha albarracinensis Pau Not. Bot. Fl. Españ. 1: 14 (1887).
Mentha aromatica Salisb. Prodr. Stirp. Chap. Allerton: 80 (1796), nom. superfl.
Mentha aucheri Pérard Cat. Rais. Pl. Montluçon, Suppl.: 21 (1878).
Mentha daghestanica Boriss. Bot. Mater. Gerb. Bot. Inst. Komarova Akad. Nauk S.S.S.R. 16: 285 (1954).
Mentha erinoides Heldr. Hlor. Mukon.: 249 (1901).
Mentha exigua L. Cent. Pl. II: 20 (1756).
Mentha gibraltarica Willd. Enum. Pl. Hort. Berol.: 611 (1809).
Mentha gryparia Heldr. Exsicc. (Herb. Graec. Norm.) 1902: n.° 1679 (1902).
Mentha hirtiflora Opiz ex Heinr.Braun Verh. K. K. Zool.-Bot. Ges. Wien 40: 492 (1890).
Mentha montana Lowe ex Benth. in A.P.de Candolle, Prodr. 12: 175 (1848).
Mentha numidica Poir. Encycl., Suppl. 3: 662 (1814).
Mentha pulegioides Dumort. Fl. Belg.: 49 (1827).
Mentha pulegium f. alba Rainha Agron. Lusit. 40: 30 (1980).
Mentha pulegium f. albiflora Cheshm. Fitologiya 7: 81 (1977).
Mentha pulegium f. anodonta Topitz Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 14: 94 (1915).
Mentha pulegium f. brusanensis Topitz Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 14: 94 (1915).
Mentha pulegium var. cacocea Topitz Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 14: 94 (1915).
Mentha pulegium f. cephalonia Heinr.Braun Verh. K. K. Zool.-Bot. Ges. Wien 40: 493 (1890).
Mentha pulegium subsp. cephalonia (Heinr.Braun) Kokkini Taxin. Mel. Gen. Mentha: 33 (1983).
Mentha pulegium f. cermatisa Topitz Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 14: 95 (1915).
Mentha pulegium f. communis Topitz Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 14: 95 (1915).
Mentha pulegium var. cotorensis Topitz Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 14: 95 (1915).
Mentha pulegium var. erecta (Mill.) Briq. Lab. Alp. Mar.: 93 (1891).
Mentha pulegium subsp. erinoides (Heldr.) Kokkini Taxin. Mel. Gen. Mentha: 36 (1983).
Mentha pulegium var. exigua (L.) Nyman Consp. Fl. Eur.: 597 (1881).
Mentha pulegium f. foetida Topitz Beih. Bot. Centralbl. 30(2): 254 (1913).
Mentha pulegium subsp. gibraltarica (Willd.) Briq. in H.G.A.Engler & K.A.E.Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. 4(3a): 318 (1896).
Mentha pulegium var. gibraltarica (Willd.) Batt. in J.A.Battandier & al., Fl. Algérie, Dicot.: 670 (1890).
Mentha pulegium var. gigantea Lej. & Courtois Comp. Fl. Belg. 2: 235 (1831).
Mentha pulegium f. hellenica Topitz Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 14: 95 (1915).
Mentha pulegium var. heterophylla Boenn. Prodr. Fl. Monast. Westphal.: 174 (1824).
Mentha pulegium var. hirsuta Briq. Lab. Alp. Mar.: 94 (1891).
Mentha pulegium var. hirtiflora Heinr.Braun Verh. K. K. Zool.-Bot. Ges. Wien 40: 492 (1890).
Mentha pulegium var. humifusa Lej. & Courtois Comp. Fl. Belg. 2: 235 (1831).
Mentha pulegium var. hyperiantha Briq. Bull. Herb. Boissier 4: 798 (1896).
Mentha pulegium f. macrostylos Topitz Beih. Bot. Centralbl. 30(2): 255 (1913).
Mentha pulegium var. microphylla Friv. Flora 18: 336 (1835).
Mentha pulegium var. prostrata Timb.-Lagr. Bull. Soc. Bot. France 7: 334 (1860).
Mentha pulegium subvar. prostrata (Timb.-Lagr.) Rouy in G.Rouy & J.Foucaud, Fl. France 11: 358 (1909).
Mentha pulegium var. pubescens Boenn. Prodr. Fl. Monast. Westphal.: 174 (1824).
Mentha pulegium var. pulegioides (Dumort.) Halácsy Consp. Fl. Graec. 2: 572 (1902).
Mentha pulegium f. setuligera Topitz Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 14: 95 (1915).
Mentha pulegium f. sphenoides Topitz Beih. Bot. Centralbl. 30(2): 254 (1913).
Mentha pulegium f. stenobasea Topitz Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 14: 95 (1915).
Mentha pulegium var. strongylophylla (Topitz) Topitz Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 14: 95 (1914).
Mentha pulegium f. strongylophylla Topitz Beih. Bot. Centralbl. 30(2): 254 (1913).
Mentha pulegium var. subhirsuta Heinr.Braun Pl. Cernagor. Lect.: 137 (1888).
Mentha pulegium var. subtomentella (Heinr.Braun) Topitz Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 14: 95 (1914).
Mentha pulegium var. thymoides Topitz Beih. Bot. Centralbl. 30(2): 255 (1913).
Mentha pulegium var. tomentella (Hoffmanns. & Link) Cout. Fl. Portugal: 510 (1913).
Mentha pulegium subsp. tomentosa (Sm.) Nyman Consp. Fl. Eur.: 597 (1881).
Mentha pulegium var. villosa Benth. in A.P.De Candolle, Prodr. 12: 175 (1848).
Mentha pulegium subsp. vulgaris (Mill.) Briq. in H.G.A.Engler & K.A.E.Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. 4(3a): 318 (1896).
Mentha pulegium var. vulgaris (Mill.) Briq. Lab. Alp. Mar.: 94 (1891).
Mentha subtomentella Heinr.Braun Verh. K. K. Zool.-Bot. Ges. Wien 40: 492 (1890).
Mentha subtomentella var. ceplaloniae Heinr.Braun Verh. K. K. Zool.-Bot. Ges. Wien 40: 493 (1890).
Mentha subtomentella var. humillima Heinr.Braun Verh. K. K. Zool.-Bot. Ges. Wien 40: 492 (1890).
Mentha subtomentella var. microphylla (Friv.) Heinr.Braun Verh. K. K. Zool.-Bot. Ges. Wien 40: 492 (1890).
Mentha tomentella Hoffmanns. & Link Fl. Portug. 1: 73 (1809).
Mentha tomentosa Sm. in A.Rees, Cycl. 23: n.° 23 (1812).
Mentha tomentosa var. villosa Benth. in A.P.De Candolle, Prodr. 12: 165 (1848).
Micromeria dalmatica Fenzl Mem. Reale Ist. Veneto Sci. 6: 247 (1856), nom. illeg.
Micromeria fenzlii Regel Index Seminum (LE, Petropolitanus) 1866: 93 (1867).
Micromeria maritima Yıld., Sadikoglu & M.Keskin Ot Sist. Bot. Derg. 13: 29 (2006).
Minthe pulegia (L.) St.-Lag. Ann. Soc. Bot. Lyon 7: 130 (1880).
Pulegium aromaticum Gray Nat. Arr. Brit. Pl. 2: 367 (1821 publ. 1822).
Pulegium aromaticum var. album Gray Nat. Arr. Brit. Pl. 2: 367 (1821 publ. 1822).
Pulegium aromaticum var. erectum Gray Nat. Arr. Brit. Pl. 2: 367 (1821 publ. 1822).
Pulegium daghestanicum (Boriss.) Holub Folia Geobot. Phytotax. 12: 429 (1977).
Pulegium erectum Mill. Gard. Dict., ed. 8.: n.° 2 (1768).
Pulegium heterophyllum Opiz ex Boenn. Prodr. Fl. Monast. Westphal.: 174 (1824), pro syn.
Pulegium micranthum Claus Beitr. Pflanzenk. Russ. Reiches 8: 244 (1856).
Pulegium pubescens Opiz ex Boenn. Prodr. Fl. Monast. Westphal.: 174 (1824), pro syn.
Pulegium pulegium H.Karst. Ill. Repet. Pharm.-Med. Bot.: 977 (1886), not validly publ.
Pulegium tomentellum C.Presl Fl. Sicul.: xxxvi (1826).
Pulegium tomentellum f. erianthum Pérard Bull. Soc. Bot. France 17: 205 (1870).
Pulegium tomentellum f. ninimum Pérard Bull. Soc. Bot. France 17: 205 (1870).
Pulegium vulgare Mill. Gard. Dict., ed. 8.: n.° 1 (1768).
Pulegium vulgare f. algeriense Pérard Bull. Soc. Bot. France 17: 203 (1870).
Pulegium vulgare f. hirsutum Pérard Bull. Soc. Bot. France 17: 203 (1870).
Pulegium vulgare f. incanum Pérard Bull. Soc. Bot. France 17: 203 (1870).
Pulegium vulgare f. linearifolium Pérard Bull. Soc. Bot. France 17: 203 (1870).
Pulegium vulgare f. nummulariuoides Pérard Bull. Soc. Bot. France 17: 204 (1870).
Pulegium vulgare f. serratum Pérard Bull. Soc. Bot. France 17: 203 (1870).
Satureja fenzlii (Vis.) K.Malý Exsicc. (Herb. Norm.) 1908: n.° 4931 (1908).
Thymus bidentatus Stokes Bot. Mat. Med. 3: 360 (1812).

This plant is cited in medicinal sources using the following names:

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Mentha pulegium	Brazilian Med. Pl. Germplasm (Scherwinski-Pereira et al., 2010) Dr. Duke's Databases: Ethnobotanical Subset (Duke, 2016) Ethnomedica (RBG, Kew, 2020) Europe's Med. Pl. (Lange, 1998) Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020) Med. Pl. Trade Turkey (Özhatay et al., 1997) Med. Pl. in E Black Sea Region of Turkey (Toksoy et al., 2010) Med. Pl. in Russia & C. Asia (Mamedov et al., 2005) SOTWP 2016: Kew Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2015) Substances in Meds., Australia (TGA, 2007) Trad. Persian Med. Pl. Database (Rahimi et al., 2018)
Mentha pulegium L.	Ethnobot. in W Granada Province, Spain (Benítez et al., 2010) European Red List of Medicinal Pl. (Allen et al., 2014) Food Chemicals Codex, 11th edn. (USP, 2018) Food Chemicals Codex, 6th edn. (USP, 2008) Food Pl. in Seven Circum-Medit. Areas (Hadjichambis et al., 2009) GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024) Global Substance Registration System (GSRS) (FDA/NCATS, 2024) Hagers Handbuch (Hänsel et al., 1992-1998) Herbal Market of Cyprus (Karousou & Deirmentzoglou, 2011) Herbal Meds., 3rd edn. (Barnes et al., 2007) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020) MHT. 103 Especies Vegetales (Ministero de Salud, Chile, 2010) Med. Pl. Traded in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (Leitão et al., 2014) Med. Pl. Use: Monasteries on Cyprus (Lardos & Heinrich, 2013) Med. Pl. in Loja & Zamora-Chinchipe, Ecuador (Tene et al., 2007) Med. Pl. in Sardinia & Sicily: Sardinian Subset (Leonti et al., 2009) Med. Pl. in Sardinia & Sicily: Sicilian Subset (Leonti et al., 2009) Med. Pl. in the Medit.: Project Rubia (Gonzalez-Tejero et al., 2008) Med. Pl. of NE Brazil (Fátima Agra et al., 2008) Modern Pl. Use in Monasteries on Cyprus, 2006-2012 (Lardos, 2016) Native Med. Pl. of Mt. Rtanj (Zlatković et al., 2014) Phenolics in Moroccan Med. Pl. Spp. (Mouhajir et al., 2001) Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997) Pl. Med. e Relig. em Mercados no RJ, Brasil (de Azevedo & Silva, 2006) Pl. for Malaria, Pl. for Fever (Milliken, 2021) SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999) SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 2020) SOTWP 2016: Kew Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2015) Tea and Herbal Infusions Europe Pl. Inventory (THIE, 2021) Trad. Med. in Syria: Folk Med. in Aleppo (Alachkara et al., 2011) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacop. (HPUS, 2009) WHODrug Herbal Substances (WHO-UMC, 2019) WHODrug Herbal Substances (WHO-UMC, 2024) WHODrug Herbal Substances (WHO-UMC, 2025) Wild Edible Pl. of Paphos & Larnaca of Cyprus (Della et al., 2006) Wild Med. Pl. in M'Sila, Algeria (Boudjelal et al., 2013) World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020)
Mentha pulegium Linnaeus	World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)
Mentha pulegium var eriantha	Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020)
Mentha pulegiurn L.	Wild Med. Pl. Resources in Bulgaria (Hardalova et al., 1998)

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