Lamiaceae

family of plants
Taxon taxon Q53476
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Summary

Lamiaceae is a taxon[1]. Lamiaceae ranks in the top 0.43% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (5,777 views/month, #849 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Taxon rank: family[3]
  • Parent taxon: Lamiales[4], Lamiineae[5]
  • Taxon name: Lamiaceae[6]
  • Subclass of: Lamiales[7]
  • Commons category: Lamiaceae[8]
  • Taxonomic type: Lamium[9]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Lamiaceae[10]
  • Described by source: Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[11], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[12], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[13], Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 8[14]
  • GRIN URL: https://npgsweb.ars-grin.gov/gringlobal/taxonomyfamily.aspx?id=619[15]
  • Taxon common name: Lipbloemenfamilie[16], Lippenblütler[17], 꿀풀과[18], วงศ์กะเพรา[19], 唇形科[20], ustnatice[21], シソ科[22]
  • Uses: CAM photosynthesis[23]
  • Has fruit type: capsule[24], berry[25]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[26]

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Identifiers

Lamiaceae's iNaturalist taxon ID is recorded as 48623[27]. Lamiaceae's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 4136[28]. Lamiaceae's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 4302[29]. Lamiaceae's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 2497[30]. Lamiaceae's ITIS TSN is recorded as 32251[31].

Why It Matters

Lamiaceae has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[32] Lamiaceae is known by 41 alternative names across languages and contexts.[33]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG III. wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG III. wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . Summary of recent systems of angiosperm classification. wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG III. wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [28] ↑ . Taxonomy database of the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [31] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [29] ↑ . Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  11. [30] ↑ . Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  12. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [15] ↑ . GRIN Taxonomy for Plants. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  18. [16] ↑ . Nederlands Soortenregister. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  19. [17] ↑ . Die Flora Deutschlands und angrenzender Länder. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  20. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [19] ↑ . panmai.com. panmai.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  22. [20] ↑ . A new list of threatened woody species in China under future global change scenarios. wikidata.org.
  23. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [22] ↑ . BG Plants: Japanese name–scientific name index (YList). wikidata.org.
  25. [23] ↑ . Physiological Ecology of Tropical Plants. wikidata.org.
  26. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  27. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  28. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  29. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [32] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [33] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 15d ago · JopkeB · 2026-09-29 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → Lamiales
    Wikipedia languages → ['af', 'ar', 'arz', 'ast', 'az', 'ba', 'bcl', 'be', 'be_x_old', 'bg', 'bs', 'ca'
    Claims rich → —
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  2. 8w ago · Yapy28 · 2026-08-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wordnet 3.1 synset id → 12858787-n
    Interlingual index id → i104266
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  3. 13w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → ULuyu
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  4. 17w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → 0338512-hluchavkovite
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  5. 18w ago · BeautifulMedia · 2026-06-06 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Taxon common name → {'lang': 'nl', 'text': 'Lipbloemenfamilie'}, {'lang': 'de', 'text': 'Lippenblütler'}, {'lang': 'ko', 'text': '꿀풀과'} +4
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Taxon common name: シソ科"
  6. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Taxon rank → family
    Described by source → Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition +1
    Instance of → taxon
    Instance of → —
    + 8 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|6 */ Yso id: 8614, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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