Origanum cordifolium

Origanum cordifolium
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Plantae
Clade:Angiosperms
Clade:Eudicots
Clade:Asterids
Order:Lamiales
Family:Lamiaceae
Genus:Origanum
Species: O. cordifolium
Binomial name
Origanum cordifolium
(Montbret & Aucher ex Benth.) Vogel

Origanum cordifolium is a subshrub with suberect, cylindrical, hairless, often purplish shoots, 40–60 cm high. Leaves opposite, simple, entire or irregularly dentate, stalkless, ovoid to cordate, 1-2 x 0.8–2 cm, leathery, hairless, acute. Flowers on pendulous spikes, zygomorphic, corolla bifid, whitish or pinkish, 1-4, subtended by purplish-green, large bracts. Flowers June–August. Fruit of 4 nutlets.[1]

Habitat

Moist, shady rocky slopes, by streams and roadbanks on igneous rocks at 300–900 m.

Distribution

Endemic to Cyprus found In a limited area of the Paphos Forest in Roudhia valley (Alonoudhi, Steni etc.)

References

  1. ↑ The Endemic Plants of Cyprus, Texts: Takis Ch. Tsintides, Photographs: Laizos Kourtellarides, Cyprus Association of Professional Foresters, Bank of Cyprus Group, Nicosia 1998, ISBN 9963-42-067-2
  • "Origanum videos, photos and facts - Origanum cordifolium | ARKive". arkive.org. Retrieved 2014-08-24.
  • "IUCN Red List maps". maps.iucnredlist.org. Retrieved 2014-08-24.
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