Phyla (genus)

{{Short description|Genus of plants in the verbena family}}

{{Hatnote|"Frogfruit" redirects here. In colloquial use this often refers to Phyla nodiflora specifically.}}

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| name = Fogfruits or frogfruits

| image =Starr_031108-0219_Phyla_nodiflora.jpg

| image_caption = Turkey tangle (P. nodiflora) with inflorescence

| taxon = Phyla

| authority = Lour.

| type_species =Phyla chinensis

| type_species_authority = Lour.{{cite web |url=http://www.tropicos.org/NameDetails.aspx?nameid=40007402 |title=Phyla Lour. |work=TROPICOS |publisher=Missouri Botanical Garden |access-date=2009-12-02}}

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = See text

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Phyla {{IPAc-en|ˈ|f|aɪ|l|ə}}{{cite book |editor=Kathleen N. Brenzel |year=1995 |title=Sunset Western Garden Book |publisher=Sunset Publishing Corporation |edition=6 |isbn=978-0-376-03851-7 |pages=606–607}} is a genus of eustarid plants in the verbena family, Verbenaceae. The name is derived from the Greek word φυλή (phyle), meaning "tribe", and most likely refers to the tightly clustered flowers or the spreading, mat-like growth.{{cite book |first=Umberto |last=Quattrocchi |title=CRC World Dictionary of Medicinal and Poisonous Plants |publisher=CRC Press |isbn=978-1420080445 |year=2012 |page=2895}} Members of the genus are known generally as fogfruit or frogfruit.{{ITIS |id=32193 |taxon=Phyla |access-date=2013-04-25}} Species once classified in the genus Lippia may be known by the common name lippia. Some species, e.g. Aztec Sweet Herb (P. dulcis), are used in cooking.