Cantinoa

{{short description|Genus of flowering plants}}

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|authority = Harley & J.F.B.Pastore {{cite journal |last1=Harley |first1=R.M.|last2=Pastore |first2=J.F.B. |year=2012 |title=A generic revision and new combinations in the Hyptidinae (Lamiaceae), based on molecular and morphological evidence |journal=Phytotaxa |volume=58 |issue=1 |pages=1–55 |doi=10.11646/phytotaxa.58.1.1|url=https://biotaxa.org/Phytotaxa/article/view/phytotaxa.58.1.1/16865|doi-access=free }}

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Cantinoa is a genus of flowering plants in the family Lamiaceae. It is native primarily to New World, with some species introduced in the old world.

The endemic range of this genus is Tropical and Subtropical America. It is found in Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Florida, French Guiana, Galápagos, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, the Leeward Islands, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panamá, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Suriname, Trinidad, Tobago, Uruguay, Venezuela and the Windward Islands.{{cite web |title=Cantinoa Harley & J.F.B.Pastore {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:77120746-1 |website=Plants of the World Online |access-date=23 December 2022 |language=en}}

It was first described and published by Raymond Mervyn Harley and José Floriano Barêa Pastore in Phytotaxa vol.58 on page 8 in 2012.

The genus name of Cantinoa is in honour of Philip D. Cantino (or Philip Douglas Cantino) (b. 1948), who is an American botanist at Ohio University. He specialised in Lamiaceae plants.{{cite book | last=Burkhardt | first=Lotte | title=Eine Enzyklopädie zu eponymischen Pflanzennamen |trans-title=Encyclopedia of eponymic plant names | publisher=Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin | year=2022 | isbn=978-3-946292-41-8 | url=https://doi.org/10.3372/epolist2022|format=pdf |language=German |location=Berlin | doi=10.3372/epolist2022 |access-date=January 27, 2022}}

The genus is not recognized by the United States Department of Agriculture and the Agricultural Research Service, they class it as a possible synonym of Hyptis {{Au|Jacq.}}{{cite web |title=Genus Cantinoa Harley & J. F. B. Pastore |url=https://npgsweb.ars-grin.gov/gringlobal/taxon/taxonomygenus?id=29221 |website=npgsweb.ars-grin.gov |access-date=23 December 2022}}