Vitex

Vitex est genus circa 250 specierum fruticum et arborum, 1 ad 35 m altum, in regionibus tropicis, subtropicis, et temperatis calidis endemicum. Olim in familia Verbenacearum positum, genus recentius in familiam Lamiacearum translatum est.List of Genera in LAMIACEAE = Angiosperm Phylogeny Website.Ray Harley. 2000. [http://www.kew.org/data/vitex/jan00.pdf "In Search of Labiatae in Eastern Brazil." Vitex: A Newsletter for Lamiaceae & Verbenaceae Research 1:5. ISSN 1470-0123.Systematics of Lamiaceae Subfamily Viticoideae.

 Species selectae 
 Vitex agnus-castus (Anglice chastetree, chasteberry, monk's pepper), in regione Mediterraneo endemica
 Vitex cuneata (Bamanane koronfinfin), in Africa Occidentali, pro fructu dulci atroque nota
 Vitex lucens (Maoriane puriri), in Nova Zelandia endemica
 Vitex keniensis (Anglice meru oak), in Kenya endemica
 Vitex negundo (Anglice five-leaf chastetree), in tropicis Asiae et Africae zonis endemica
 Vitex trifolia (Anglice simpleleaf chastetree)

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Categoria:Genera plantarum
Categoria:Lamiaceae
Categoria:Taxa Linnaei