Keanekaragaman Beberapa Anggota Keluarga Mentol-Mentolan Dan Potensinya Di Indonesia

Member of Mint family (Labiatae/Lamiaceae) is about 180 genera and over 3000 spp. in Malesia but only few known. In Indonesia few genera commonly used by indigenous people for traditional medicine or for oil industry such as Mentha, Ocimum, Orthosiphon, Pogostemon, and Scutellaria. This study was concerning to investigate of selected genera on Lamiaceae and its used by indigeneous people. Descriptif kualitatif method and plant identification at Bogor Botanic Garden collection and specimen vouchers of Herbarium Bogoriense using for analysis also added field report and books of ethnobotany. General characteristics of Mint family is quadrangular, lips and two side of corolla symmetrically. Indonesia is highly biodiversity of Mint family and its potentials for oil industry prospectively. So information of distribution as well as conserve of their habitat should be doing as soon as possible because almost all of Mint family as shrub that endangered by climate change. Seminar Nasional Biologi XX dan Kongres PBl XIV UIN Maliki Malang, 24-25 Juli 2009. hal. 584-588