''Premna'' is a genus of

flowering plant Flowering plants are plants that bear flowers and fruits, and form the clade Angiospermae (). The term angiosperm is derived from the Ancient Greek, Greek words (; 'container, vessel') and (; 'seed'), meaning that the seeds are enclosed with ...

s in the

mint Mint or The Mint may refer to: Plants * Lamiaceae, the mint family ** ''Mentha'', the genus of plants commonly known as "mint" Coins and collectibles * Mint (facility), a facility for manufacturing coins * Mint condition, a state of like-new ...

family,

Lamiaceae The Lamiaceae ( ) or Labiatae are a family (biology), family of flowering plants commonly known as the mint, deadnettle, or sage family. Many of the plants are aromatic in all parts and include widely used culinary herbs like basil (herb), ba ...

, first described for modern science in 1771. It is widespread through tropical and subtropical regions in

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, southern

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, northern

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, and various islands in the

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and Indian Oceans.Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
/ref> ;Species # ''Premna acuminata'' Robert Brown (botanist, born 1773), R.Br. - Australia, New Guinea # ''Premna acutata'' W.W.Sm. - southwestern China (Yunnan, Sichuan) # ''Premna alba'' H.J.Lam - Palau # ''Premna ambongensis'' Moldenke - Madagascar # ''Premna amplectens'' Wall. ex Schauer - Thailand, Myanmar # ''Premna angolensis'' Gürke - tropical Africa # ''Premna angustiflora'' H.J.Lam - Palau # ''Premna annulata'' H.R.Fletcher - Thailand, Laos, Vietnam # ''Premna aureolepidota'' Moldenke - Madagascar # ''Premna balakrishnanii'' A.Rajendran & P.Daniel - Tamil Nadu # ''Premna balansae'' Dop - Vietnam # ''Premna barbata'' Wall. ex Schauer - Indian Subcontinent, Myanmar # ''Premna bengalensis'' C.B.Clarke - Indian Subcontinent, Myanmar, Vietnam # ''Premna bequaertii'' Moldenke - Uganda, Rwanda, Zaïre # ''Premna bracteata'' Wall. ex C.B.Clarke - Himalayas, Tibet, Yunnan, Nepal, Assam, Bhutan, Myanmar # ''Premna cambodiana'' Dop - Cambodia, Vietnam # ''Premna cavaleriei'' H.Lév - China (Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hunan, Jiangxi) # ''Premna chevalieri'' Dop - Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, China (Hainan, Yunnan) # ''Premna chrysoclada'' (Bojer) Gürke - Kenya, Tanzania, Guinea-Bissau # ''Premna collinsae'' Craib - Thailand # ''Premna confinis'' C.Pei & S.L.Chen ex C.Y.Wu - China (Guangxi, Yunnan) # ''Premna congolensis'' Moldenke - Zaïre, Angola, Cabinda # ''Premna cordifolia'' Roxb. - Thailand, Vietnam, Malaya # ''Premna coriacea'' C.B.Clarke - Indian Subcontinent, Thailand, Andaman Islands # ''Premna corymbosa'' Rottler - India, Sri Lanka, Andaman & Nicobar Islands # ''Premna crassa'' Hand.-Mazz. - Vietnam, China (Guangxi, Guizhou, Yunnan) # ''Premna debiana'' A.Rajendran & P.Daniel - Arunachal Pradesh # ''Premna decaryi'' Moldenke - Madagascar # ''Premna decurrens'' H.J.Lam - Indonesia # ''Premna discolor'' Verdc. - Kenya # ''Premna dubia'' Craib - Laos, Thailand, Vietnam # ''Premna esculenta'' Roxb. - Assam, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Thailand # ''Premna fohaiensis'' C.Pei & S.L.Chen ex C.Y.Wu - China (Yunnan) # ''Premna fordii'' Dunn - China (Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan) # ''Premna fulva'' Craib - Indochina, Indonesia, China (Guangxi, Guizhou, Yunnan) # ''Premna garrettii'' H.R.Fletcher - Thailand # ''Premna glaberrima'' Wight - southern India # ''Premna glandulosa'' Hand.-Mazz. - China (Yunnan) # ''Premna gracillima'' Verdc. - Kenya, Tanzania # ''Premna grandifolia'' A.D.J. Meeuse, illegitimate name, = ''Premna hutchinsonii'' # ''Premna grossa'' Wall. ex Schauer - Myanmar # ''Premna guillauminii'' Moldenke - New Caledonia # ''Premna hainanensis'' Chun & F.C.How - China (Hainan) # ''Premna hans-joachimii'' Bernard Verdcourt, Verdc. - Tanzania # ''Premna henryana'' (Hand.-Mazz.) C.Y.Wu - China (Sichuan, Yunnan) # ''Premna herbacea'' Roxb. - Himalayas, Yunnan, Indian Subcontinent, Southeast Asia, Indonesia, New Guinea, northern Australia # ''Premna hildebrandtii'' Gürke - Zaire, Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique, Zimbabwe # ''Premna hispida'' Benth. - West Africa # ''Premna humbertii'' Moldenke - Madagascar # ''Premna hutchinsonii'' Moldenke - Ivory Coast # ''Premna interrupta'' Wall. ex Schauer - southern China, Himalayas, Indochina # ''Premna jalpaiguriana'' T.K.Paul - West Bengal # ''Premna khasiana'' C.B.Clarke - Assam, Thailand # ''Premna lepidella'' Moldenke - Madagascar # ''Premna ligustroides'' Hemsl - China (Guizhou, Hubei, Jiangxi, Sichuan) # ''Premna longiacuminata'' Moldenke - Madagascar # ''Premna longifolia'' Roxb. - Himalayas # ''Premna longipetiolata'' Moldenke - Madagascar # ''Premna lucens'' A.Chev. - West Africa # ''Premna macrophylla'' Wall. ex Schauer - Assam, Indochina # ''Premna madagascariensis'' Moldenke - Madagascar # ''Premna mariannarum'' Schauer - Mariana Islands # ''Premna matadiensis'' Moldenke - Zaïre, Angola # ''Premna maxima'' T.C.E. Fr. - Kenya # ''Premna mekongensis'' W.W.Sm. - China (Yunnan) # ''Premna micrantha'' Schauer - India, Assam, Bangladesh # ''Premna microphylla'' Turcz. - Japan, Ryukyu Islands, China (Anhui, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hainan, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, Sichuan, Taiwan, Yunnan, Zhejiang) # ''Premna milleflora'' C.B.Clarke - Assam # ''Premna milnei'' Baker - Nigeria, Bioko # ''Premna minor'' Domin - Queensland # ''Premna mollissima'' Roth - Indian Subcontinent, Yunnan, Indochina, Philippines # ''Premna mooiensis'' (H.Pearson) W.Piep - Mozambique, Eswatini, South Africa # ''Premna mortehanii'' De Wild - Zaïre # ''Premna mundanthuraiensis'' A.Rajendran & P.Daniel - Tamil Nadu # ''Premna neurophylla'' Chiov. - Ethiopia # ''Premna oblongata'' Miq. - Indonesia, Philippines # ''Premna odorata'' Blanco - - Indian Subcontinent, Yunnan, Southeast Asia, New Guinea, northern Australia; naturalized in Miami-Dade County in FloridaBiota of North America Program 2013 county distribution map
/ref> # ''Premna oligantha'' C.Y.Wu - China (Sichuan, Tibet, Yunnan) # ''Premna oligotricha'' Baker - Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya, Tanzania # ''Premna orangeana'' Capuron - Madagascar # ''Premna paisehensis'' C.Pei & S.L.Chen - China (Guangxi) # ''Premna pallescens'' Ridl.- Borneo, Indonesia # ''Premna parasitica'' Blume - Indonesia # ''Premna parvilimba'' C.Pei - China (Yunnan) # ''Premna paucinervis'' (C.B.Clarke) Gamble - Kerala, Tamil Nadu # ''Premna paulobarbata'' H.J.Lam - Mariana Islands # ''Premna perplexans'' Moldenke - Madagascar # ''Premna perrieri'' Moldenke - Madagascar # ''Premna pinguis'' C.B.Clarke - Assam, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Java # ''Premna polita'' Hiern - Angola # ''Premna procumbens'' Moon - India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka # ''Premna protrusa'' Albert Charles Smith, A.C.Sm. & S.Darwin - Fiji # ''Premna puberula'' Pamp. - China (Fujian, Gansu, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hubei, Hunan, Shanxi, Sichuan, Yunnan) # ''Premna pubescens'' Blume - Indonesia, Philippines, Christmas Island # ''Premna puerensis'' Y.Y.Qian - China (Yunnan) # ''Premna punduana'' Wall. ex Schauer - Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Bangladesh # ''Premna punicea'' C.Y.Wu - China (Yunnan) # ''Premna purpurascens'' Thwaites - Sri Lanka # ''Premna quadrifolia'' Schumach. & Thonn. - West Africa # ''Premna rabakensis'' Moldenke - Cambodia # ''Premna regularis'' H.J.Lam - Philippines, Indonesia, New Guinea # ''Premna repens'' H.R.Fletcher - Thailand # ''Premna resinosa'' (Hochst.) Schauer - East Africa, Arabian Peninsula, India # ''Premna richardsiae'' Moldenke - Tanzania # ''Premna rubroglandulosa'' C.Y.Wu - China (Yunnan) # ''Premna scandens'' Roxb. - China (Yunnan), Himalayas, Andaman Island, Indochina # ''Premna schimperi'' Engl - East Africa # ''Premna schliebenii'' Erich Werdermann, Werderm. - Tanzania, Mozambique # ''Premna scoriarum'' W.W.Sm. - Tibet, Yunnan, Myanmar # ''Premna senensis'' Klotzsch - eastern + central Africa # ''Premna serrata'' H.R.Fletcher - Thailand # ''Premna serratifolia'' Carl Linnaeus, L. - widespread in East Africa, the Indian Subcontinent, Southeast Asia, northern Australia, islands of Pacific + Indian Oceans # ''Premna siamensis'' H.R.Fletcher - Thailand # ''Premna stenobotrys'' Merr. - Vietnam # ''Premna steppicola'' Hand.-Mazz. - China (Sichuan, Yunnan) # †''Premna sterculiifolia'' King & Gamble - Malaya but extinct # ''Premna straminicaulis'' C.Y.Wu - China (Yunnan) # ''Premna subcapitata'' Rehder - China (Sichuan, Yunnan) # ''Premna sulphurea'' (Baker) Gürke - Angola # ''Premna sunyiensis'' C.Pei - China (Guangdong) # ''Premna szemaoensis'' Pei - China (Yunnan) # ''Premna tahitensis'' J.Schauer - many islands of the Pacific # ''Premna tanganyikensis'' Moldenke - Tanzania, Mozambique # ''Premna tapintzeana'' Dop - China (Yunnan) # ''Premna tenii'' C.Pei - China (Yunnan) # ''Premna thorelii'' Dop - Laos # ''Premna thwaitesii'' C.B.Clarke - Sri Lanka # ''Premna tomentosa'' Willd. - Indian Subcontinent, Southeast Asia, Queensland, Solomon Islands # ''Premna trichostoma'' Miq. - Southeast Asia, Indonesia, New Guinea # ''Premna urticifolia'' Rehder - China (Yunnan) # ''Premna velutina'' Gürke - Burundi, Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique # ''Premna venulosa'' Moldenke - Madagascar # ''Premna wightiana'' Schauer - India, Sri Lanka # ''Premna wui'' Boufford & B.M.Barthol. - China (Yunnan) # ''Premna yunnanensis'' W.W.Sm - China (Sichuan, Yunnan)

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{{Taxonbar, from=Q937726 Premna, Lamiaceae genera Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus Taxonomy articles created by Polbot