Zataria multiflora
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Zataria multiflora is a plant type from the family of the mint (Lamiaceae). It is the only species in the genus Zataria . It occurs in parts of Asia.
description
Zataria multiflora is an aromatic sub- shrub whose stems are densely tomentose with whitish trichomes . The leaves are small, densely dotted with glands. Their edge is almost entire, the shape of the leaf blade is circular to elliptical. Often the leaves are hairy white.
The flower stalks consist of little-flowered false whorls , which are pressed into short, spike-shaped thyrses . Often they stand on short inflorescence stalks in the axils of deciduous bracts , which, however, are more and more reduced towards the shoot tip. Pre-leaves are only indistinctly developed.
The almost sessile flowers are very small. The calyx is ovate-cylindrical and radially symmetrical . The five calyx lobes are uniform, short and broad triangular. The inside of the calyx is hairy, the calyx tube is traversed by five veins, the veins in between are more or less absent. The calyx and bracte are covered with glands that turn reddish orange. The crown is white, weakly two-lipped, the upper lip consists of two, the lower lip of three corolla lobes. The lips protrude from the corolla tube, the lobes are almost identical, the corolla tube protrudes only slightly over the crown.
The flowers of a plant are either completely hermaphroditic or completely female ( gynodioce ). In hermaphrodite flowers, the stamens protrude slightly over the corolla tube, the counters of the anthers are slightly apart and separate from each other. The flower base is more or less flat, but the front is slightly swollen. The scars are short, flattened, almost identical lobes.
The fruits are egg-shaped, smooth nuts , often only one is formed.
Distribution and locations
The species is found in southern Iran , eastern Afghanistan and Pakistan . Their distribution area extends from Iran to the western Himalayas. It grows there on open, stony areas, often near rivers that have dried up at times.
supporting documents
- RM Harley et al .: Labiatae . In: K. Kubitzki et al. (Ed.): The families and genera of vascular plants . Volume VII: Flowering Plants, Dicotyledons, Lamiales (except Acanthaceae, including Avicenniaceae). Springer Verlag, 2004, ISBN 9783540405931 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Rafaël Govaerts (ed.): Zataria multiflora. In: World Checklist of Selected Plant Families (WCSP) - The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew . Retrieved September 18, 2019.