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Genus Acinos Mill.

Род 672 (11). АЦИНОС — ACINOS MILL.¹
Mill., Gard. Diet. Abridg., ed. 4 (1) 1754.

Fam: Labiatae Juss. (Lamiaceae)
Genus: Acinos Mill.
English Name: The genus has no common names

Description:

Annual or perennial herbaceous plants. Stems single, several or multiple, ascending, ascending or erect. The leaves of petioles or almost sitting down, narrow to broadly ovate, lance, elliptic to almost round, distant shallowly jagged or almost entire. Flowers 2 to 12 in lingual vertebrae in the bosom of the leaves, collected in simple grapevine inflorescences. The blossom petioles flat, in the base with short bracts. The calyx trumpet, with 13 veins, two-mouth; the teeth of the lower lip longer than the upper teeth; the tube at the opening with a ring of long white hairs, on the underside strongly bulging, simply, glandular or mixed fibrous, rarely almost naked, often pale violet colored. The crown of violet or crimson purple, longer than the calyx, the two-mouth, the upper lip entire, on the top shallowly incised, the lower 3-part. The stamens 4, parallel to each other, hidden in the crown or the two front exits slightly above the upper lip. The style with uneven stigma, the upper narrow styliform, shorter, the below longer, the wider. Walnuts oblong or egg-shaped, naked.
Business significance. All types contain essential oils, some with pleasant odor are used as spices (A. arvensis), in diuretic tea mixtures (A. alpinus). A. alpinus is suitable for decorative groups. Honey plants.

Table for determination of the species

1   The crown (10-) 12 - 20 mm long .................................................................................................................................................... 2
1* The crown 7 - 10 (-12) mm long ...................................................................................................................................................... 3
2   Leaves ovoid, elliptic, broad elliptic to almost round, basically short wedge-shaped, rounded or short-sighted on the top .................................................................................................................................................................... 1. - A. alpinus (L.) Moench
2* The leaves are lance to elliptic lance, basically long wedge-shaped narrow, long-pointed at the top ................................................ ................................................................................................................................................. 2. - A. suaveolens (Sibth. Et Sm.) G. Don
3    Leaves lance, broadly lance to ovate; leaf petioles 1 - 3 mm long ……………................……………... 3. - A. arvensis (Lam.) Dandy
3* Leaves broadly back ovate to almost round; leaf petioles. 7 - 10 mm long ………........................………….. 4. - A. rotundifolius Pers.

¹ Developed by M. Anchev.

From: „Флора на Н Р България”, том IX, БАН, София, (1989)

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Acinos is a genus of ten species of annual and short-lived evergreen perennial woody plants native to southern Europe and western Asia. Its name comes from the Greek word akinos, the name of a small aromatic plant. They are small, tufted, bushy or spreading plants growing to 10–45 cm tall. The 2-lipped, tubular flowers are in whorls borne on erect spike-like inflorescence produced in mid-summer.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Acinos

The genus Acinos is in the family Lamiaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).
Statistics are at the end of the page.
From: www.theplantlist.org/1.1/browse/A/Lamiaceae/Acinos/

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Distribution in Bulgaria: (Conspectus of the Bulgarian Vascular Flora) = conspectus&gs_l= Zlc. Distribution:

References: „Флора на Н Р България”, том IX, БАН, София, (1989), Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia,
www.theplantlist.org/1.1/browse/A/Lamiaceae/Acinos/

SPECIES:

Acinos arvensis (Lam.) Dandy - Basil thyme and Spring savory

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