The Lamiales (also known as the mint order) are an order of flowering plants in the asterids clade of the Eudicots. [4] Under the APG IV system of flowering plant classification the order consists of 24 families, [ 4 ] and includes about 23,810 species and 1,059 genera [ 5 ] with representatives found all over the world. [ 6 ]

Lamiales, mint order of flowering plants, including 24 families, 1,059 genera, and about 23,755 species. Easily recognizable characters include usually opposite leaves, frequent presence of glandular hairs, and mostly capsular fruits.

The two core families of Lamiales are Lamiaceae, or the mint family, and Verbenaceae, or the verbena family. Together they account for about 270 genera and more than 8,300 species.

The order Lamiales is a taxon in the asterid group of dicotyledonous flowering plants. It includes about 11,000 species divided up into about 10 families. A few well-known members of this order are the lavender, the lilac, the olive, the jasmine, the ash tree, the teak, the snapdragon, and a number of table herbs such as mint, basil, and rosemary.

Lamiales is an ordering of flowering plants with most members found worldwide. The species of the Lamiales usually have opposite leaves, bilaterally symmetrical and often bilabiate corolla, five petals fused into a tube, four or fewer fertile stamens, and a superior ovary with fused carpels.

Introduction to Order – Lamiales: According to Hutchinson this is the eighty-second order of the phylum Angiospermae, subphylum Dicotyledones and division Herbaceae.

Many core Lamiales are herbaceous or shrubby and have often quite large monosymmetric, bilabiate flowers, and about equal numbers of species have fruits with many small seeds or with about eight or fewer (but still not very big) seeds.

The Lamiales, sensu APG IV (2016), contain 24–25 families (Table 8.3), many of which have undergone considerable changes in classification (e.g., see Scrophulariaceae, discussed later). Nine families are described here.

Lamiales as presented here are a well-supported clade of the Lamiids (Bremer et al. 2002) found in all major, recent molecular studies of the Asterids (APG II 2003; see also Wagenitz 1992). The Lamiids, comprising approximately 23,600 species in 1140 genera, are...

Families, genera and species in the flowering plant order Lamiales, as circumscribed by the APG IV system (2016).