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Mentha arvensis L. - syn.Mentha austriaca Jacq. - Lamiaceae
corn mint, field mint, wild mint, पुदीना Pudina (Hindi), Acker-Minze, Korn-Minze
Perennial herb, 10-30(-60)cm high, pubescent, native to Europe and Asia, naturalized in North America; leaves short petioled, opposite, simple, coarsely serrated; flowers pale purple, in whorls on the stem at the bases of the leaves.
„The following chemical races based on essential oil composition, occur in North America: Type 1 - high in pulegone, isomenthone and menthone. Type 2 - high in linalool, cfr-ocimene and trans-ocimene. Type 3 - high in cw-isopulegone and fnmi-isopulegone. Type 4 - high in cis- and trans-ocimene and in 1,8-cineol. These four chemotypes are not correlated with any of the morphological variations.“
[Variation in Mentha arvensis L.(Labiatae). I. The North American populations., Gill, L.S., Lawrence, B.M., Morton, J.K., Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, 67(3), 1973, 213-232]
The major components of the essential oil obtained from the aerial parts of M.arvensis growing in central India were menthol (71%), p-menthone (8%), iso-menthone (5%) and neo-menthol (3%).
[Chemical composition and antimycotic activity of the essential oils of corn mint (Mentha arvensis) and lemon grass (Cymbopogon flexuosus) against human pathogenic fungi. Pandey, A. K., Rai, M. K., Acharya, D., Pharmaceutical biology, Vol.41(6), 2003, 421-425]
Kops et al., J., Flora Batava, vol.15 t.1178 (1877)
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