Cunila

{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}}

{{Automatic taxobox

|image = Cunila_origanoides.jpg

|image_caption = Cunila origanoides

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|taxon = Cunila

|authority = D.Royen ex L.

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|synonyms =

• Mappia Heist. ex Fabr rejected name
• Hedyosmos Mitch.

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Cunila is a genus of plants in the Lamiaceae, first described in 1759. It is native to North and South America.[http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=52300 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families][http://bonap.net/MapGallery/County/Cunila%20origanoides.png Biota of North America Program 2013 county distribution map]Xifreda, C.C. & Mallo, A.C. (2006). El género Cunila (Lamiaceae, Mentheae) en Argentina. Darwiniana 44: 298-308.Davidse, G., M. Sousa Sánchez, S. Knapp & F. Chiang Cabrera. 2012. Rubiaceae a Verbenaceae. 4(2): i–xvi, 1–533. In G. Davidse, M. Sousa Sánchez, S. Knapp & F. Chiang Cabrera (eds.) Flora Mesoamericana. Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St. Louis.Forzza, R. C. 2010. Lista de espécies Flora do Brasil {{cite web|url=http://floradobrasil.jbrj.gov.br/2010 |title=Archived copy |access-date=2015-08-20 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150906080403/http://floradobrasil.jbrj.gov.br/2010/ |archive-date=2015-09-06 }}. Jardim Botânico do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de JaneiroMolina Rosito, A. 1975. Enumeración de las plantas de Honduras. Ceiba 19(1): 1–118.

;Species

1. Cunila angustifolia Benth. - southern Brazil, Misiones Province of Argentina
2. Cunila crenata García-Peña & Tenorio - State of Durango in Mexico
3. Cunila fasciculata Benth. - southern Brazil
4. Cunila galioides Benth. - Brazil
5. Cunila incana Benth. - southern Brazil, Argentina
6. Cunila incisa Benth. - southern Brazil
7. Cunila leucantha Kunth ex Schltdl. & Cham. - Mexico (Veracruz, Guerrero, Oaxaca, Chiapas), Central America (Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Panama)
8. Cunila lythrifolia Benth. - central + southern Mexico
9. Cunila menthiformis Epling - southern Brazil
10. Cunila menthoides Benth. - Uruguay
11. Cunila microcephala Benth. - southern Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay
12. Cunila origanoides (L.) Britton - central + eastern United States from Texas and Kansas east to New York and Georgia
13. Cunila platyphylla Epling - southern Brazil
14. Cunila polyantha Benth. - Mexico (from Zacatecas and Jalisco south to Chiapas), Central America (Guatemala, Honduras, Panama)
15. Cunila pycnantha B.L.Rob. & Greenm. - Mexico (from Sinaloa and Durango south to Chiapas)
16. Cunila ramamoorthiana M.R.Garcia-Pena - Mexico (Guerrero)
17. Cunila spicata Benth. - southern Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay
18. Cunila tenuifolia Epling - southern Brazil