Acinos Mill.
Annual or perennial herbs with procumbent or erect stems. Lvs simple, toothed or entire. Infls axillary and terminal. Verticels with up to c. 8 fls; bracts similar to lvs. Calyx tubular, 13-nerved; tube usually curved; base gibbous with tuft of white hairs at throat; limb 2-lipped; lower lip with longer teeth. Corolla 2-lipped; tube straight, glabrous within. Stamens < corolla, curved. Style gynobasic, its branches unequal, upper subulate, lower longer and wider. Nutlets obovoid to oblong.
c. 10 spp., temperate Eurasia, Mediterranean. Naturalised sp. 1.
