''Cunila'' is a genus of plants in the

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, first described in 1759. It is native to

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and

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/ref>Molina Rosito, A. 1975. Enumeración de las plantas de Honduras. Ceiba 19(1): 1–118. ;Species #'' Cunila angustifolia'' Benth. - southern Brazil, Misiones Province of Argentina #'' Cunila crenata'' García-Peña & Tenorio - State of Durango in Mexico #'' Cunila fasciculata'' Benth. - southern Brazil #'' Cunila galioides'' Benth. - Brazil #'' Cunila incana'' Benth. - southern Brazil, Argentina #'' Cunila incisa'' Benth. - southern Brazil #'' Cunila leucantha'' Kunth ex Schltdl. & Cham. - Mexico (Veracruz, Guerrero, Oaxaca, Chiapas), Central America (Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Panama) #'' Cunila lythrifolia'' Benth. - central + southern Mexico #'' Cunila menthiformis'' Epling - southern Brazil #'' Cunila menthoides'' Benth. - Uruguay #'' Cunila microcephala'' Benth. - southern Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay #'' Cunila origanoides'' (L.) Britton - central + eastern United States from Texas and Kansas east to New York and Georgia #'' Cunila platyphylla'' Epling - southern Brazil #'' Cunila polyantha'' Benth. - Mexico (from Zacatecas and Jalisco south to Chiapas), Central America (Guatemala, Honduras, Panama) #'' Cunila pycnantha'' B.L.Rob. & Greenm. - Mexico (from Sinaloa and Durango south to Chiapas) #'' Cunila ramamoorthiana'' M.R.Garcia-Pena - Mexico (Guerrero) #'' Cunila spicata'' Benth. - southern Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay #'' Cunila tenuifolia'' Epling - southern Brazil

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