Turkish oregano
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The Turkish oregano ( Origanum onites ) is a plant type from the genus of Doste ( Origanum ) in the family of Labiatae (Lamiaceae).
description
The Turkish oregano is a dwarf shrub whose stems can be up to 60 cm long, grow upright and are densely papillos and coarsely hairy. The opposite leaves are 5 to 22 mm long and 4 to 12 (rarely up to 17) mm wide. They are egg-shaped to circular-egg-shaped, rounded or heart-shaped at the base, pointed or pointed at the tip. The leaf margin is whole or sawed away. The leaf blade is papilose and shaggy hairy and dotted with glands. The leaf veins protrude slightly on the underside. The lower leaves are stalked, the rest sessile.
The inflorescence consists of spikelets 4 to 10 mm in length that are ovate, oblong or prismatic. They are very dense and at the end of the stems form a dense panicle with a diameter of 2 to 8 (rarely up to 10) cm. The bracts are 3 to 3.5 mm long and are slightly above the calyx . The lower bracts are ovate and pointed, the upper are circular-ovate, blunt and hairy with short hairs. The calyx is egg-shaped-spatulate, 2.75 to 3 mm long, single-lipped and has a deep slot on one side. It has entire margins or has three tiny teeth, almost hairless, dotted with glands and eyelashes. The crown is 4 to 5.5 mm long and white.
The fruits are oblong, egg-shaped nuts about 1 mm long.
The number of chromosomes is 2n = 30.
Occurrence
Turkish oregano is widespread in the Mediterranean region and can be found in Crete , Greece , the Aegean Sea, Turkey, the former Yugoslavia , Sicily and possibly Spain . It prefers dry shrubbery, open embankments, rocks and fallow land as a place of growth.
literature
- R. Fernandes, VH Heywood: Origanum. In: TG Tutin, VH Heywood, NA Burges, DM Moore, DH Valentine, SM Walters, DA Webb (eds.): Flora Europaea . Volume 3: Diapensiaceae to Myoporaceae . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1972, ISBN 0-521-08489-X , pp. 172 (English, limited preview in Google Book Search).
- Ruprecht Düll, Irene Düll: Pocket dictionary of the Mediterranean flora. Quelle & Meyer, Wiebelsheim 2007, ISBN 978-3-494-01426-5 , pp. 242-243.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Rafaël Govaerts (Ed.): Origanum onites. In: World Checklist of Selected Plant Families (WCSP) - The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew . Retrieved September 15, 2019.
