Vitex

An Vitex  iyo an genus kan mga tanum na nagbuburak sa pamilya kan Lamiaceae.List of Genera in Lamiaceae.  At: Peter F. Stevens. 2001 onwards. Angiosperm Phylogeny Website  At: Missouri Botanical Garden Website. (see External links below). Ini igwa nin maabot sa 250 na espesye.Raymond M. Harley, Sandy Atkins, Andrey L. Budantsev, Philip D. Cantino, Barry J. Conn, Renée J. Grayer, Madeline M. Harley, Rogier P.J. de Kok, Tatyana V. Krestovskaja, Ramón Morales, Alan J. Paton, and P. Olof Ryding. 2004. "Labiatae" pages 167-275. In: Klaus Kubitzki (editor) and Joachim W. Kadereit (volume editor). The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants volume VII. Springer-Verlag: Berlin; Heidelberg, Germany. Vitex In: Index Nominum Genericorum. In: Regnum Vegetabile (see External links below).An ibang apod igdi iyo an chaste tree o chastetree, na nagtutukoy man sa V. agnus-castus pero ipinapangapod man sa gabos na espesye.

An mga espesye kan Vitex tubo sa kabuuan kan tropics asin subtropics, na igwa man magkakapirang espesye sa temperate Eurasia.David J. Mabberley. 2008. Mabberley's Plant-Book third edition (2008). Cambridge University Press: UK.

Halos 18 espesye an kaayon sa kultibasyon. Vitex agnus-castus asin Vitex negundo pinapadakula sa mga temperadong klima.Anthony J. Huxley, Mark Griffiths, and Margot Levy (editors). 1992. The New Royal Horticultural Society Dictionary of Gardening. The Macmillan Press Limited, London; The Stockton Press, New York. Igwang anum na pinapadakul sa tropics.George W. Staples and Derral R. Herbst "A Tropical Garden Flora" Bishop Museum Press: Honolulu (2005) Halos gabos na espesye sa kultibasyon nagseserbeng masetas. An iba nagtatao man nin tabla. An mga sanga kaini ginagamit sa paggibo nin bakol. An iba sa mga aromatic species ginagamit sa pagbulong. or to repel mosquitos.

An genus Vitex pinangaranan ni Linnaeus sa Species Plantarum kan 1753.Carolus Linnaeus. 1753. Species Plantarum 2:706. Laurentii Salvii. (see External Links below). An Vitex an ngaran na ginamit ni Pliny the Elder para sa Vitex agnus-castus. Ini gikan sa Latin vieo, na ibig sabihon, maghabi o magbugkos.Umberto Quattrocchi. 2000. CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names volume I, page 91. CRC Press: Boca Raton; New York; Washington, DC;, US. London, UK.  (set). (see External links below).

Vitex saro sa magkakapirang genera na inilipat hali sa Verbenaceae pasiring Lamiaceae kan 1990s bilang resulta kan mga phylogenetic na pag-adal kan mga DNA sequence.Ini an pinakadakulang genus sa subpamilya Viticoideae kan Lamiaceae.Systematics of Lamiaceae Subfamily Viticoideae. At: Website of Kew Gardens. (see External links below). An subpamilya pwedeng diphyletic, kaiba an Premna, Gmelina, asin Cornutia nagbubuo nin sarong clade, asin kan Vitex, Petitia, Pseudocarpidium, asin Teijsmanniodendron na nagbuo man kan iba.Gemma L.C. Bramley, Félix Forest, and Rogier P.J. de Kok. 2009. "Troublesome tropical mints: re-examining generic limits of Vitex and relations (Lamiaceae) in South East Asia". Taxon 58(2):500-510.

Deskripsyon
Vitex an genus kan mga palumpong asin mga kahoy, puon 1 hanggang 35 metro an taas. An ibang espesye igwa nin maputing itsura kan puno An mga dahon magkabaliktadan asin duwahan. Asin an prutas drupe.

Ibang mga espesye
 Vitex acunae
 Vitex agnus-castus — Chasteberry, monk's pepper, chastetree
 Vitex ajugaeflora
 Vitex altissima
 Vitex amaniensis
 Vitex capitata
 Vitex chrysocarpa
 Vitex cofassus
 Vitex cooperi
 Vitex cymosa
 Vitex divaricata
 Vitex doniana — Wild African black plum, koronfinfin
 Vitex evoluta
 Vitex gaumeri
 Vitex gigantea
 Vitex heptaphylla
 Vitex keniensis — Meru oak
 Vitex kuylenii
 Vitex lehmbachii
 Vitex leucoxylon
 Vitex lignum-vitae — Yellow hollywood, lignum-vitae
 Vitex lindenii
 Vitex longisepala
 Vitex lucens — Puriri
 Vitex megapotamica
 Vitex negundo — Five-leaf chastetree
 Vitex obovata
 Vitex orinocensis
 Vitex parviflora — Molave tree
 Vitex peduncularis
 Vitex pinnata
 Vitex quinata
 Vitex rotundifolia — Beach vitex
 Vitex triflora
 Vitex trifolia — Simpleleaf chastetree
 Vitex tripinnata
 Vitex urceolata
 Vitex yaundensis
 Vitex zanzibarensis
 Vitex zeyheri

Toltolan

Mga ginunuan
 Ray Harley, "In search of Labiatae in Eastern Brazil", Vitex: A Newsletter for Lamiaceae & Verbenaceae Research, , Issue 1, February 2000, page 5.

Panluwas na takod
 List of Genera in Lamiaceae, Missouri Botanical Garden
 Vitex, Index Nominum Genericorum
 Vitex in Biodiversity Heritage Library
 CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names: R-Z
 Systematics of Lamiaceae Subfamily Viticoideae

Kategorya:Lamiaceae genera